Managing Bookmarks/Favorites - NEDRA 2001

Ernest Ackermann, Mary Washington College

Introduction | Collections | Shareware | Online Tools | Articles

As we work on the Web many of us use bookmarks or favorites to keep track of where we've been, sites we want to come back to, favorite sites, or ones we find important or useful.

• Bookmarks - term used by Netscape and Opera.
• Favorites - term used by Internet Explorer

We'll use the term bookmarks.

As we accumulate bookmarks we're likely to want to

• organize them according to a scheme that makes it easy for us to work with them (not to mention to find the ones we want)
• sort bookmarks
• search
• annotate the basic information, URL and title, that's kept with a bookmark
• check for duplicates, dead links, relocated links
• be able to move them easily from one computer system to another
• access them regardless of which browser we use
• access them through the Internet
• drag & drop additions
• import, export or synchronize
• export to html, text, rich text (rtf), or portable docuemnt (pdf) formats.

In this presentation we'll take a look at several tools that let us manage and work with bookmarks. Some of the tools are used by being resident on the computer we're using to access the Internet and others are available online. We'll look at how to acquire, install, and use them. We'll also do a comparative review of some of these tools.

• urls, titles, annotations
• date of access
• update/check
• searchable and easily editable so they can be used in citations
• citations

Bookmarks (Netscape & Opera)

• features
  • can search by name, location, description
  • hierarchical
  • update/check
  • date
• limitations
  • annotation not shown
  • not all that easy to export into other documents. Only URL is available through a copy.
  • can import as a group

Favorites (IE)

• features
  • hierarchical
  • date
• limitations
  • not so easy to search
  • can't update

Converting from one to the other.

• relatively easy import from Netscape to Explorer
• Step by Step: Bookmarks or Favorites? Both! http://www.zdnet.com/pccomp/features/excl0498/pcsecrets/step/1-step.html
• Bookmark Converter. http://www.magnusbrading.com/bmc/ Software to convert.

Collections of bookmark managers

• DaveCentral: Web Surfing - Bookmarks http://www.davecentral.com/urlman.html
• Tucows Boomark Utilities for Windows, Macintosh
  
  
• Web-based bookmark managers http://www.webwizards.net/useful/wbbm.htm
  
  
• Open Directory - Computers: Internet: On the Web: Web Applications: Bookmark Managers http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Web_Applications/Bookmark_Managers/
• Open Directory - Computers: Software: Shareware: Windows: Internet: Browser Enhancements http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Shareware/Windows/Internet/Browser_Enhancements/

Bookmark Managers - Shareware

• AcqURL http://www.gttech.com/ $35.00
• Check & Get http://activeurls.com/ manage and sync bookmarks. Free version (with ads) and a version for $29.95(no ads and more features)
• Compass http://www.softgauge.com/compass/ $25.00
• PowerMarks http://www.kaylon.com/power.html $24.95
• URL Manager 2000 http://www.dlcwest.com/~sorev/urlmgr.htm $15.00

Online Bookmark Managers

• BackFlip http://www.backflip.com
• Blink.com - manage, organize, and share your Web bookmarks online http://www.blink.com/
• Bookmarksync http://www.syncit.com/bms/default.asp. Also allows you to sync bookmarks between browsers.
• Hotlinks http://www.hotlinks.com/home.html. See the tour for a description of the features common to many online bookmark managers.
• itList http://www.itlist.com/
• Murl http://www.murl.com see note as of April 11, 2001
• Mybookmarks.com online bookmarks http://www.mybookmarks.com/
• myHq : Online Bookmark Manager http://www.myhq.com/

Articles

• Cohen, Allen. "ONLINE BOOKMARKS". PC Magazine, 01/18/2000, Vol. 19 Issue 2, p50.
• Ellis, Ryann K. "Bookmark Managers." Training & Development, Sep2000, Vol. 54 Issue 9, p80.
• Evans, Peter. "Personal Bibliographic Managers". Personal Bibliographic Software. Biblio Tech Review. http://www.biblio-tech.com/html/pbms.html
• Humphreys, LaJean. "itList and Other Bookmark Managers". LLRX.com - itList and Other Book mark Managers. Jan 17, 2000. http://www.llrx.com/extras/itlist.htm
• Kennedy, Dennis. "Searching for Bookmark Management Solutions: Clickgardens, Backflips and the Trails of Breadcrumbs". LLRX.com - Searching for Bookmark Management Solutions. Feb. 15 2001. http://www.llrx.com/features/bookmark.htm
• Lanza, Sheri R.. "Bookmarks: Our Unruly, Unmanageable Friends.". Searcher, Mar2001, Vol. 9 Issue 3, p48.
• Matthews, Judy. "Reference Managers" software reviews. Nature. Jul 29 1999. http://www.nature.com/nature/software/refman/intro.html
• Sherman, Chris. "A Bookmark Manager Roundup". Online. Sept. 1999. http://www.onlineinc.com/onlinemag/OL1999/sherman9.html
• Spangler, Todd. "Smarter Ways to Slice & Dice the Web". Inter@ctive Week, 05/01/2000, Vol. 7 Issue 17, p94

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