Organizing Your Bookmarks!

Organizing Your Bookmarks!

January 14th, 2011 @ 11:39 am by Mrs. Giraffe
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Now, I like to read and often use bookmarks. I mean how else will I remember my page?

The same thing goes for the web pages I visit; I occasionally bookmark a page here or there…unless it comes to wedding inspiration, then nothing can stop me. I bookmark pages like nobody’s business. Anything that can remotely relate to our upcoming wedding or the future upcoming wedding of a friend of mine that’s bound to get engaged or married sometime within the next five years gets instantly thrown into a giant pile of bookmarks in Firefox.

I’m pretty sure you guys can guess what happened. I had so many bookmarks that I could never get back to find what I had marked in the first place. I tried making folders to set things aside, but I couldn’t really see them all in one place and not everything I marked was wedding related, so things like Daily Squee got mixed up with Project Wedding. Even more frustrating, was that I was going between Firefox and Safari at that time, so I’d have somethings bookmarked on one, and some on the other. Also, I couldn’t get to my bookmarks from Mr. Giraffe’s computer, which I use pretty often.

My obsessive anal retentiveness just couldn’t take it anymore! After googling around for a while, I started a (free) account with Bookmark Tracker. Bonus: you can make your account private or public if you want to share all your bookmarks with your friends or your mom, depending on whom you hang out with more.

(Side note: If you make an account and try to use an ampersand (&) in the user name, it’ll give you an error message every time. This was totally frustrating until I realized that.)

I made a billion folders for all the pages I wanted to bookmark, and they all showed up in a row of perfect alphabetical ordered goodness.

(Screen shot of my bookmark tracker from here)

What’s even better is that you can change the name of the link to whatever you want and also add a description (which helps when you have 15 links that are all titled ’wedding flower happiness’…just kidding).

I think the best part is that you can import your current bookmarks from IE or Firefox; that way all the perfectly titled folders I had all ready created and added to in Firefox were created in Bookmark Tracker, and I didn’t even have to do any work! Hooray! No work is my favorite kind of work.

You can also choose to see your most visited bookmarks, or your new ones. It’s terribly convenient, I assure you.

Has anyone else found a good way to keep your bookmarks organized? I would love to hear about whatever else is out there!

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10 Responses to “Organizing Your Bookmarks!”

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Charcole2011 (message) 298 posts, Helper bee

this is brilliant - thanks for sharing! can you use it from multiple computers? my biggest problem is bookmarking things at work and at home, and not remembering where anything is!

1/14/11 @ 12:14 pm (reply)

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crazyquilter (message) 34 posts, Newbee

I use delicious.com for my bookmarks. You can assess the account as long as you have an internet connection. I love that I can tag them, write a description, and search for them if I can’t remember what I tagged them

1/14/11 @ 12:25 pm (reply)

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SandraMarie_1986 (message) 1,363 posts, Bumble bee

This is perfect.

1/14/11 @ 12:27 pm (reply)

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Salsals (message) 100 posts, Blushing bee

If you use Google Chrome as your browser, you can sync your bookmarks so that you have the same ones at home, work, and anywhere you log into Chrome. They can also import all your IE and Firefox bookmarks so you don’t have to recreate them. I was using Google bookmarks but this is so much better!

1/14/11 @ 12:55 pm (reply)

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LoriLori (message) 727 posts, Busy bee

Another delicious.com user! Love the site! And so much more since they changed from del.ici.ous.com or wherever those darn periods were!!! THAT was annoying but the site is great - tagging, FREE, lists.

1/14/11 @ 1:43 pm (reply)

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cleverbetty (message) 34 posts, Newbee

I use Google bookmarks. If you download their browser bar you can customize it to include your bookmarks and can access it from any computer. The organization sounds similar to what you described. I like using the Google one because I have gmail and also use picasa and Google docs and Google calendar… basically, everything I need is in one place, and there’s even an app that I use called GWizz that I can access most all of my Google-ness from on my iphone.

1/14/11 @ 2:03 pm (reply)

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JillBill (message) 425 posts, Helper bee

this is TOTALLY inefficient, but I occasionally will scan through my bookmarked pages and email myself the links, usually multiple per emails. I’ll include a brief description before each link, so it’s not blind link-ing. I do this so that I can access from multiple computers, share ideas, and back-up my bookmarks in case my dino-Dell decides to go to the big tech store in the sky sometime between now and August.

1/14/11 @ 3:17 pm (reply)