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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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You should check out linkies.com - disclaimer I'm a co-founder. Anyways linkies organizes your posts/bookmarks based on the hashtags you use. You can even group hashtags into groups that we are calling grashtags. You can also subscribe to just the topics you are interested in to create a custom news feed of links updated by the people you trust. it's currently in private beta but let me know if you want early access and I will see what I can do.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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In my opinion, for a bookmarking tool to be "ultimate" it at least has to store the content of the web page and allow searching the content. Basically it should be a search engine that uses your bookmarks as the source of sites to crawl. This removes the burden of having to properly tag/organize bookmarks and makes bookmarks easier to find later.

Google Bookmarks does this: https://www.google.com/bookmarks/

I've been using Google Bookmarks for years and am pretty happy with it even though it doesn't look like Google is developing it any further. There are other bookmarking products that provide this as well.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are Pinboard's tag management tools like? Can I merge tags together? Does it show the number of items tagged with a tag when tagging a new item ? I found that v useful until Delicious removed it (often I enter synonyms by accident, and this helps me control my tag vocabulary) Without a trial of Pinboard it's very hard to answer these questions...

I believe that's explained here: http://pinboard.in/tour/#manage note: I don't use pinboard myself but I looked around after seeing OP's rec

No, that doesn't answer my questions. I've been through the tour numerous times and it's rather too minimalist - which either means there's a small feature set, or the author of Pinboard isn't marketing minded

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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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…

I love how people want to show you how clever they are ("I found it!") rather than deal with your topic for what it was. Is it desperately wanting an upvote, or "Can't wait to prove someone else wrong"? Oh well.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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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.

I'm finding Diigo's strength to be in the browser. I haven't tried the mobile apps in a while and I know others have these features.

One neat part of Diigo for me is being able to create an rss feed that you could presumably feed into one of these other apps.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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My problem with bookmarking tools is that I horde links in them that I actually never go back and look for. I usually just use my brain as an index for some keywords and then utilize Google search.

I should add that I've pretty much given up on bookmarking tools because I've left a trail on delicious, the old Google one, Springpad, Clipboard, etc... I'm not just using plain-jane Notational velocity notes, and I'm pretty diligent in writing why I'm saving a link, whether it's an interesting library I need to use some day, or a good article that I read where I learned something. I'll usually summarize what I learned.
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