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Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by aduitsis » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 3:53 PM UTC

jakub_g wrote: post #36

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 synonymou…

Can you confirm that Firefox sync handles the tags correctly?

I've had great luck with xmarks, which correctly syncs the tags. But I'd like to know that there is always an alternative for a feature that I've come to depend so much on.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by Swizec » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 3:59 PM UTC

genwin wrote: post #35

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.

Yes, when I noticed this I stopped using bookmarks :)

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by Swizec » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 4:01 PM UTC

Wilya wrote: post #28

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…

> no links are ever broken. I'd take my broken links over Google's "Did you mean..." any time. Practically speaking, except for constantly recommended stuff, Google's memory doesn't go more than a year or so back in the past, unless you know very precisely what you are looking for (at the very least, title and author of stuff).

Probably depends on what you're looking for?

When I'm googling for coding tips, I often find blogposts that are several years old simply because they're still relevant and still solve my problem.

Guess it's different for news ... but I wouldn't look for old news anyway. Or at least I haven't needed to so far.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by terhechte » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 4:06 PM UTC

j45 wrote: post #39

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…

Does Diigo support reading and annotating quotes offline on the iPad app? Like InstaPaper + Quotes / Annotations? The iPad app does not look too fancy in the app store, I have to say. Apart from that I like the service's offering.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by j_s » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 4:08 PM UTC

The whole 'give some random [small] company pointers to everything on the Internet that I care about' creeps me out approximately the same as giving Google that info indirectly (for different reasons), but Google provides an indispensable convenience.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by criley » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 4:12 PM UTC

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…

Honestly, my bookmarks are a dramatically better resource than Google for many things.

Remember: Google is full of SEO optimized bullshit and the highest links are generally the ones that want to be highest and not necessarily the best.

Or, another way: The best resources online are not always posted by SEO-friendly people on major websites. I can curate those gems into an awesome list.

Google misses gems and Google is curated only by an algorithm that is heavily targeted for manipulation.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by SonicSoul » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 4:15 PM UTC

i do love how dragdis implemented that scrollable demo animation

http://www.dragdis.com/#a

moving the scroll back slightly back and fourth actually makes the animation move smoothly back and fourth!

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by enraged_camel » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 4:41 PM UTC

I went to the Dragdis website to check it out, and found the user experience (with the awkward scrolling) so jarring that I decided not to sign up for it.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by webwanderings » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 4:41 PM UTC

I use a two-click bookmarking method called Tumblr. Have your Tumblr bookmarklet on your browser's bookmarks toolbar. Click on it to activate the saving of link you wish to bookmark. Click on publish in the Tumblr bookmarklet window. Done. Two-clicks done and it is fast enough.

Tumblr's bookmarklet is the fastest of all three blogging platforms I have experienced: Blogspot and Wordpress the other two.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by pinchyfingers » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 4:42 PM UTC

Pinboard.in FTW

1. I use the bookmarklet to add bookmarks

2. I write a short description for the bookmark

3. I click on one of my existing tags or add a new one

4. The Pinboard organize tool shows a preview of the content so I can edit bookmarks quickly

5. Automatically archives my retweets and links posted to Twitter

6. Let's me have private and public bookmarks

Just sayin' for me bookmarking is a solved problem.

Personally, I don't want something with unique UI features like folders popping up on my browser window. That just interrupts the workflow I've already developed.

I also appreciate that I paid for Pinboard and can reasonably expect it to be around for awhile without getting acquired or shutting down.