siam2007 Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 I used delicious for many many years until they were "swallowed" by something big and became useless...... since then, my bookmarks r somehow disorganized, having them on a file here on my harddrive, but not using any bookmark-organizer at this moment. any recommendations for a SIMPLE easy-to-use freeware-program ? maybe with a APP for mobile devices available as well ? thanks for any input..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digitalbanana Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Firefox for PC syncs with Firefox Android on mobiles. Google Chrome browser syncs bookmarks with Android also. Xmarks syncs between Firefox and Chrome. Don't know about other browsers as I have no need for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astral Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 I have been organising my own bookmarks for years Creating a tree of folders and subfolders I know it needs some pruning and is not a task I would like to start from scratch with unsorted bookmarks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
attrayant Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 I have been organising my own bookmarks for years Creating a tree of folders and subfolders But where does this tree live? If it's on your local hard drive, you're at risk of losing it all with a simple hardware failure or infection. As mentioned above, cloud services sync all your bookmarks across multiple devices. The only catch us that you have to authenticate (i.e. sign in) to your profile. Google is essentially giving you a roaming user profile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noodle Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 I have been organising my own bookmarks for years Creating a tree of folders and subfolders But where does this tree live? If it's on your local hard drive, you're at risk of losing it all with a simple hardware failure or infection. As mentioned above, cloud services sync all your bookmarks across multiple devices. The only catch us that you have to authenticate (i.e. sign in) to your profile. Google is essentially giving you a roaming user profile. And the other small catch is that it is 'public' knowledge. Use an SSD for backup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astral Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 (edited) But where does this tree live? If it's on your local hard drive, you're at risk of losing it all with a simple hardware failure or infection. As mentioned above, cloud services sync all your bookmarks across multiple devices. The only catch us that you have to authenticate (i.e. sign in) to your profile. Google is essentially giving you a roaming user profile. It is simply the FF bookmarks folder, sub-divided, on the local drive The whole FF settings are backed up with Mozbackup and copied to an external back up drive weekly You asked for a bookmark organiser, not a sync programme!! Edited March 22, 2014 by astral Added link for Mozbackup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
attrayant Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 (edited) They should be one and the same. Any good bookmark manager should be fault tolerant. I've never heard of "Mozbacup" but it sounds like the same thing as Google's roaming user profile. So that should be a safe way to manage bookmarks. Edited March 22, 2014 by attrayant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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