I recently decided to move as much of my life online as possible. One thing I had a hard time with was my Bookmarks. I’m a bookmark junkie. I currently have over 6,500 bookmarks from the past 4 years. They are loaded on my laptop in a program called URL Manager Pro. Not a bad little program, but not online (I have a upcoming post about why I’m moving online).
There are a lot of different bookmarking online apps.
- del.icio.us:
No private bookmarking - furl.net
I started here, I imported my bookmarks (all 6,500 of them) and they imported correctly, but they did not keep any of the tags/folders and stripped the page titles. Also the search was not that great - spurl.net
Next tried spurl, which looked great! I imported my bookmarks, was able to mark them private or public – they said they would send me an email when the import was complete, that was more then a week ago…
After browsing eHub for more solutions I came across simpy.com. Again, tried importing – and yes, it took all 6,500 – simpy even made tags from my folders. Simpy has privite/public features, del.icio.us integration, tag management and a bunch more. The site is ugly as sin, but it gets the job done. It even has a notes feature where you can highlight text on a page, store and tag it for future viewing. It also has a great search feature that also searches the homepage content for all the bookmarks.
So here I am, finally an online home for my bookmark addiction.
Since you are looking at online social bookmarking solutions, I thought you might like to come on over and check out http://www.blinklist.com. It’s a fun new site we launched and perhaps you will find it to be a delicious alternative. Would love to hear your thoughts if you do give it a spin. Oh yeah, you don’t have to start over. You can just quickly import all of your bookmarks. Mike
Hi Jeremy – welcome to Simpy!
Regarding the “ugly as sin” bit, please help me out by being more precise:
- what aspects of the UI are ugly?
- how can I improve them?
- anything good in UI?
Thank you for your feedback!
If you have a chance to check out Ma.gnolia let us know how Simpy compares. I just signed up for Ma.gnolia and it looks like it’s going to replace del.icio.us and Furl. Tag clouds, too.