Comments on: CyberNotes: Keep Your Bookmarks Organized Online with Quick Bookmarks

By: Pieter

Pieter — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:00:18 +0000

Pieter wrote:
I use social bookmarking sites to keep track of all the cool stuff I found on the internet. If I were to save these things in my Firefox bookmarks, it’d be a total mess. Just name it, tag it, and optionally choose what picture you want to go with it. See the result here: http://bluedot.us/users/pdedecker
That actually looks like a really nice service, and I haven’t heard of it before. I might have to try that out.

They have a Firefox extension that will let you bookmark pages without ever leaving the page. Screenshot: http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/7454/bluedotnc3.jpg (You can also drag the Blue Dot window around.)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:51:46 +0000

Alek Davis wrote:

Anyway, as I said, QB can be a good solution for some. I wish they came about a year earlier.

That's a good point. They launched amidst all of the other personal homepage solutions, and there is so much competition out there that they aren't receiving much publicity. I really do think they are one of the more useful personal homepages though.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:44:55 +0000

Alek Davis wrote:

I assume that to bookmark a page in QB, you need to switch to QB site, but, I guess (assuming that I’m correct about this) this can be fixed in future with an extension.

At the moment, you can "install" a simple button in your browser (no plugins, simply a bookmark). When you click it, your are redirected to a QB page that allows to bookmark it (url and page title are already filled), then you are redirected to the original page.

By: Alek Davis

Alek Davis — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:04:39 +0000

dexter wrote:

[I]n QB you can dispose your bookmarks using the entire page space, and you can access to it more directly, without open folders in folders and so on.

Agreed. Original folder-based hierarchical bookmark structure is not optimal, but I wonder what my QB home page would look like if I had thousands of bookmarks. Don't know, maybe it will look OK (haven't tried it myself), but I really like tag-based navigation since I started to use it, so folders are not an issue for me any more. Also, I assume that to bookmark a page in QB, you need to switch to QB site, but, I guess (assuming that I'm correct about this) this can be fixed in future with an extension. Anyway, as I said, QB can be a good solution for some. I wish they came about a year earlier.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:10:12 +0000

BigJim45 wrote:

Seems to me that this can’t hold a candle to FoxMarks Bookmark Synchronizer add-on for Firefox.

That's true, but they are kind of meant for different purposes. This is more geared towards serving as a homepage. Plus it has better control over viewing feeds than Foxmarks.

netster007x wrote:

Yep, my only online bookmarking now is link.opera.com. Why? It’s always updated and I never have to do anything.

:) It is pretty convenient.

Anonymous wrote:

I tried this site, and the way it provide the entire page to organize and place bookmarks, and the availability of the site icons seems quite unique.

That's what we thought as well, and why we thought it would be worth writing about the site. We hadn't really seen something that worked quite like this.

Pieter wrote:

I use social bookmarking sites to keep track of all the cool stuff I found on the internet. If I were to save these things in my Firefox bookmarks, it’d be a total mess. Just name it, tag it, and optionally choose what picture you want to go with it. See the result here: http://bluedot.us/users/pdedecker

That actually looks like a really nice service, and I haven't heard of it before. I might have to try that out.

jacques wrote:

I switched to links.opera, since a few days. Nice enough.

It is a really nice service, and hopefully they add more features over time.

By: jacques

jacques — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:41:17 +0000

I switched to links.opera, since a few days. Nice enough.

By: dexter

dexter — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:27:25 +0000

Hi Alek,
I think that the idea under QB is to avoid to use browser bookmarks manager, because browsers always uses a “tree” bookmark interface, while in QB you can dispose your bookmarks using the entire page space, and you can access to it more directly, without open folders in folders and so on.
Also you can have other features like better RSS feeds (more feeds integrated in one page), snapshots, keep notes on bookmarks and others.
If you use something like QB, you don’t necessary need browser bookmarks, and personally I don’t use browser bookmarks anymore.
QB will be your home page, and you will keep it always open as the first tab of your browser.

By: Alek Davis

Alek Davis — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:11:10 +0000

This could be good for someone who haven’t picked a bookmark synchronization service, but I’m quite happy using a combination of del.icio.us and Google Browser Sync (see [alekdavis.blogspot.com] ). Tag-based navigation (in del.icio.us) is easy and it is integrated with the browsers (via extensions), so I do not have to open a separate page to view bookmarks. If I understand it correctly, to use Quick Bookmarks, you either need to go to their Web site, or continuously import/export bookmarks. If this is the case, it may be a bit of a hassle.

By: Pieter

Pieter — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:52:24 +0000

I use social bookmarking sites to keep track of all the cool stuff I found on the internet. If I were to save these things in my Firefox bookmarks, it’d be a total mess.

Just name it, tag it, and optionally choose what picture you want to go with it.
See the result here: [bluedot.us]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:27:36 +0000

I tried this site, and the way it provide the entire page to organize and place bookmarks, and the availability of the site icons seems quite unique.