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The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by kybernetikos »

marban wrote: post #6

The problem with bookmarks is not whether i need 2 or 4 clicks - it's about sync, browser & device integration, search, temporary dumps with follow-up, intelligent tagging, storing an offline copy, read-later formatting, adding metadata and even credentials, compilations, research buckets, etc. Neither pinboard nor delicious have solved this for me and i doubt some fancy d&d tool will do it.

I use pinboard, and in my opinion it has adequate solutions to almost all of the things you mentioned.

I tend to use it more as a history of sites that I've looked at though, for research I would use Zotero.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by ebbv »

Uhrm, I can already drag bookmarks onto the bookmark bar/folder to make them. That's built into my browsers.

And I can already drag images and text from my browser onto my desktop and it will automatically save them. (Or into my dropbox folder if I want it synced.)

Why on earth would I need this? I don't see a use case.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by lttlrck »

DanBC wrote: post #24
Swizec wrote: post #18

The ultimate bookmarking tool: Google. Just google for something you want to use. It works like magic. The info is always up to date [1], it always finds what you need from the most obscure of references your brain comes up with, and no links are ever broken. Oh and everything is a single click away. Win. [1] no working off of stale bookmarks where the author neglected to go back and say "HEY THIS IS BAD NOW, DONT DO…

An English MP was caught in the expenses scandal. That MP was facing heavy criticism in the press for some of the things they had claimed for. To respond better to the press this MP paid for public relations training. The MP then claimed for the PR training on expenses. I read about this in a national UK newspaper. (Either the Telegraph, or the Independent, or the Grauniad.) I cannot find the name of the MP or the st…

You should have bookmarked it. Then you could have posted the link here and we could have found it on Google :)

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by genwin »

Swizec wrote: post #18

The ultimate bookmarking tool: Google. Just google for something you want to use. It works like magic. The info is always up to date [1], it always finds what you need from the most obscure of references your brain comes up with, and no links are ever broken. Oh and everything is a single click away. Win. [1] no working off of stale bookmarks where the author neglected to go back and say "HEY THIS IS BAD NOW, DONT DO…

I tend to google to re-discover things I already have bookmarked. It usually takes more effort to look for the bookmark.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by jakub_g »

I just wanted to add that in modern browsers you can bookmark with 0 mouse clicks. Just CTRL+D it.

In Firefox it additionally focuses the "Tags" field which I find awesome. I was skeptical initially towards tags, but it's much easier to tag stuff with a brain dump of keywords coming to my mind, than to nicely put it into some hierarchical structure. The latter never worked for me.

The challenge is to manage synonymous tags in one's mind. I frequently tag something with e.g. javascript-foo tag and some other thing with foo-javascript. But you can easily move it later in the Library (CTRL-SHIFT-B).

Firefox handles search using the URL, the title stored, the tags, so with a mixture of all those in your location bar, it's super easy to find things. CTRL-L to focus the location bar and here you go.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by bjterry »

DanBC wrote: post #26
Swizec wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean the first hit for googling "telegraph MP expense scandal" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/9815... It's about "The police have re-opened their enquiry into the former MP Denis MacShane after he admitted submitting fake receipts to claim expenses.", which sounds a lot like your story. So I'm guessing the guy you're looking for is Denis McShane.

No, but thanks for playing. Specifically, there is no mention in that report of expenses claimed for public relations training.

Are you referring to this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5425...

I found this article as a link from the first result of: telegraph MP expense scandal "public relations" training (I added the quotes because lots of articles about MPs seemed to have "public" in them without mentioning "public relations").

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by j45 »

The issue isn't bookmarking and making that simpler. It's realizing that when we bookmark something, we often bookmark a sentence, paragraph, or area of a page that we have no way of easily finding of what they bookmarked mentally. Ever needed to go through dozens of link in a category or folder to find the "one". Having an intelligent search for the annotations of the web that you make live is invaluable for finding and sharing all the information you extract and want to save for re-use later.

If anyone can compare this to Diigo, I'd be much obliged.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by [deleted] »

DanBC wrote: post #24
Swizec wrote: post #18

The ultimate bookmarking tool: Google. Just google for something you want to use. It works like magic. The info is always up to date [1], it always finds what you need from the most obscure of references your brain comes up with, and no links are ever broken. Oh and everything is a single click away. Win. [1] no working off of stale bookmarks where the author neglected to go back and say "HEY THIS IS BAD NOW, DONT DO…

An English MP was caught in the expenses scandal. That MP was facing heavy criticism in the press for some of the things they had claimed for. To respond better to the press this MP paid for public relations training. The MP then claimed for the PR training on expenses. I read about this in a national UK newspaper. (Either the Telegraph, or the Independent, or the Grauniad.) I cannot find the name of the MP or the st…

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