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richardhenry's avatar

Can anyone recommend a great online bookmarking service, other than Delicious?

Asked by richardhenry (12692points) December 4th, 2008 from iPhone

Something fast, searchable, perhaps the tags are automatically generated by the content, super simple… Delicious is too convoluted and I don’t like having to tag things.

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wilhel1812's avatar

Wel, there’s google bookmarks and such, but i think delicious is the best one out there.

shadling21's avatar

They all have such cool names.

steven's avatar

Furl
Netvouz
Delibar
Deliwin
Quicksilver
Tons more here
http://www.downloadsquad.com/tag/bookmarking

mrdh's avatar

Evernote

robmandu's avatar

Mento

I like it mainly b/c you can include an image from whatever bookmarked site you add. Visual aids are awesome!

It’s also setup so that you can share your links with your Mento buddies, and it’ll report back to you on whether they actually view the link, etc.

Oh, and you can rig it to auto-add your Mento entries to del.icio.us, too. In that way, it’s painless to experiment with, since you can always fall back to del.icio.us if you don’t like it.

Like this.

robmandu's avatar

Oh, and to the objective in your description, Mento will auto-suggest tags for sites that other Mento users have already bookmarked. So that’s nice. (I think del.icio.us does that, too, though.)

But back to including the image… being a guy, and guys being predominately visual thinkers, I find I’m able to “search” faster for the link I want if I can scan and lock on an image much easier than trying to read titles/descriptions or trying to guess at the right tags.

Snoopy's avatar

@rob I don’t know that that is just a guy thing….I would love the visual image aspect of the homepage or whatever too. Very cool.

Vincentt's avatar

I kind of used Scuttle in the past, which wasn’t that feature-rich but is open source so you can also host it yourself.

anthelios77's avatar

You could also try Diigo, Connotea or CiteULike if you want to use social bookmarking for your research. I think you still have to tag your stuff though..

binary's avatar

Delicious seems to fit the bill, as tags are recommended when bookmarking a site (generated by users, though, not by content; though, technically speaking, it would be extremely difficult to have a site dynamically suggest tags based on content. For example: a tech blog may talk about everything from cooking to literature if it relates to the technology at hand, but I don’t think it should be classified as such). It is pretty simple too, but still.

Twine used to be what I used.

anthelios77's avatar

Twine seems to try to generate tags from the content, and I suspect from how others have tagged it before. You a Delicious user now @binary?

Brome's avatar

I used to be a Delicious user, but now mainly use Mento.

robmandu's avatar

BTW… if you want to bookmark something temporarily, like just to read later, try out Instapaper. Simple, clean, straightforward interface.

And they even offer an iPhone version.

anthelios77's avatar

I like Instapaper’s “Give me something to read”-function. Hoping this application will make me more productive, since I can just read stuff later and stay focused on what I’m doing.. I have the attention span of a… oh look there’s a shiny new app!

binary's avatar

@anthelios77

Yes I’m a delicious user, if only because it integrates nicely into Firefox and is a better bookmark management system for multiple systems, rather than backing up to USB on a sneakernet.

anthelios77's avatar

@binary Yea I wonder why only only delicious integrates so well into Fx. When I used Flock Ma.gnolia was well integrated as well.. What type of systems are you referring to?

@everyone Can you form groups on Delicious or Mento for certain topics, and can you discuss in those?

YARNLADY's avatar

Maybe Newsvine? it’s not strictly a bookmarking site, but has similar features among many others.

anthelios77's avatar

I ran into Faves a few days ago. I haven’t tried it myself though..

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