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Google Bookmarks + GMarks for Firefox = Bookmarking Bliss
For quite a while now I've been using Google Bookmarks along with the GMarks add-on for Firefox. This combination gives me basically everything I want as a bookmarking solution:
- Online storage of my bookmarks
- Ability to search the content of the pages that I have bookmarked
- Browser integration
I bookmark pages a lot. Bookmarks are like my selective history or my selection of pages I want to be able search in the future. Although I use tags, its more important that I be able to find the bookmarks by searching for the content that is in the pages bookmarked. I find this incredibly useful.
The only feature of GMarks I really use is the replacement of Firefox's bookmark dialog box with a dialog for submitting to Google Bookmarks. There are features for browsing bookmarks, but I just use Google's web interface for that.
Before Google released this, I was using an app that I had written that does this along with social features. But I don't really need social features (I was the only one using it anyway), and Google does a better job of handling search than my solution. I still want to finish writing that application (the core functionality I was going for works, but needs a lot of polishing off and some bug fixes), but currently have other personal projects I'm trying to find time to finish before I work on anything else.
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I'm really late on this whole
I'm really late on this whole web 2.0 bandwagon, as well as late commenting on this post. However, I just started using delicious about two weeks ago, and found it pretty unwieldy, and frankly stupid. I'm migrating my bookmarks over to Google bookmarks right now, and from the first bookmark added it appears to be superior. I'm sure part of this is that I'm already more used to Google's tag implementation because of Gmail than I will ever be to delicious's, and part of it is because I'm just getting old and delicious confuses me.
Apparently, none of these wicked plug ins ever get ported over to Opera, although I'm honestly too lazy to check. However, the bookmarklet functions well enough for my needs. Anything more involved and I'd probably just end up lost anyway.
Cool post though. I just wanted to let you know I read it when you originally posted it, and it had a roll in influencing me to make another "Web2.0 leap".