Comments on: Towards Better Bookmark Syncing: del.icio.us and diigo

By: Ahmed Jawad

Ahmed Jawad — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:00:47 +0000

Best is diigo, just install it and you will love the new features (on top of delicious ) like comments, highlighting, etc.. you can easily import from delicious and also diigo simulataneously updates book marks on delicious, so you will not loose any thin

By: Cameron Dale

Cameron Dale — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:57:00 +0000

I use the Google Browser Sync firefox extension on all 3 of my computers. It syncs everything: bookmarks, cookies, history, and (most importantly) open tabs.

By: Lars Wirzenius

Lars Wirzenius — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:32:32 +0000

I’ve been thinking about setting up an
ikiwiki site to handle my bookmarks.
I’m currently using a wiki page on
my site for (public) bookmarks, but
it’s just a list. It would be possible
to use a “blog” for links, one “post”
per link. Tags would work as they
usually do in ikiwiki. With a good
DVCS backend in place, sharing between
different computers would be easy.

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:51:02 +0000

I agree with you; I have some file:/// URLs bookmarked.

The del.icio.us has a syncing algorithm, and I have found the local XML file where it keeps a cache or all your bookmarks. I haven’t tested yet, but it would appear to work fine offline.

By: madduck

madduck — Sun, 04 May 2008 12:51:03 +0000

None of the tools I’ve seen so far support true decentralised operation. As strange as it may sound, I want my bookmarks to be available when I’m offline.

I am not ready to give my bookmarks to any site out there, for various reasons.

So far, bookmark management is one of those areas that need a lot more work and more brains than those of PHP hackers.

I actually prefer the Internet Explorer approach of having a bookmark per file to Mozilla’s horrific bookmarks.html approach. Once we’re at that point, a tagging system could be used, ideally one that integrates documents, bookmarks, and mail… so far, that’s just a dream.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 04 May 2008 05:13:17 +0000

I’ll second Foxmarks. And they do have a Firefox 3 version in beta test right now.

By: asdf

asdf — Sat, 03 May 2008 21:55:11 +0000

http://debaday.debian.net/2008/04/20/sitebar-centralized-bookmarking/

By: Bas Zoetekouw

Bas Zoetekouw — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:33:42 +0000

Hi John!

You might be interested in the foxmark plugin [1] to synchronse your bookmarks. Although they offer a commercial service that lets you store your bookmarks at their site, the plugin is OSS, and it allows you to store the bookmarks on any ftp or webdav site.
I’ve been using it for a while, and it works pretty well. Only disadvantage is that it doesn’t have a firefox 3 version yet.

Bas.

[1] http://www.foxmarks.com/