8thsinner Report post Posted October 3, 2008 Was just in the other bookmarks post and thought what else do you like? And more accurately, If your like me and have a million hobbies and likes how do you organise them. I have been looking for a way to organize everything of mine for ages. I am sorting through computer related stuff these days and will be for a few weeks probably so I could do with some extra ideas before I finish on how to sort overall... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rdb Report post Posted October 3, 2008 My simple way is to use firefox 3.03. It has the ability to "tag" each saved bookmark. Tag your bookmarks right, and you can do easy searches based on the tags. I.E.: "suppliers", "hardware", "tutorials", "western", "sheaths", etc. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stelmackr Report post Posted October 3, 2008 .....so I could do with some extra ideas before I finish on how to sort overall... I have found that bookmarks on a home computer doesn't work for me. For instance, if I find something of interest at someone else's home or at work the bookmark stays with the machine. And if said machine crashes and you don't backup the computer daily, then the bookmarks are lost. Here is what I did. I read in a Linux magazine about a nice Perl script that I modified and put on my web site. Here is the text: #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; ##use strict; my $BOOKFILE = "../data/bm.dbf"; use CGI qw(:all *table); use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); open(BKM,">>$BOOKFILE") || print "Can't open $BOOKFILE for appending data, reason: $!<P>\n"; if(param('a') ) { my $URL = param('a'); ##my $TITLE = "TITLE"; my $TITLE = param('t'); print BKM "<a href=$URL target=\"new\">$URL</a>\t$TITLE\t\n"; close BKM; } print header(), start_html(-title => "Bookmarks"); print "<body>\n"; open(BKM,"<$BOOKFILE") || print "Can't open $BOOKFILE for reading data, reason: $!<P>\n"; while (<BKM>){ print "<li>$_";} print "</body></html>\n"; Now this little jewel is activated by installing one bookmark on every computer I use with this text: java script:void(win=window.open('http://website_hostname.com/cgi-bin/bm?a='+location.href+'&t='+document.title)) ...and I name the bookmark "BM>" to indicate bookmark storage While the page of interest is displayed the "BM>" bookmark is clicked and the URL and title of the page is appended in a file on the web server. To confirm the storage I have it read back the entire stored file (you could eliminate this function). I also have another bookmark called "<BM" that activates a little database program I wrote that will search the file and display the entries that contain the keyword used to search. This book mark looks like this: java script:void(win=window.open('http://website_hostname.com/cgi-bin/db.cgi?path=/path_to_data_file/data/&filename=bm&pass=password')) Now a little improvement would be to "tag the entry with a third field", like the Firefox browser, when the entry is written. If anyone is interested, contact me and we could exchange some ideas. Bob Stelmack Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Johanna Report post Posted October 3, 2008 I just looked and I have about 1500 bookmarks. I have folders. Accounts, Forums, Reference, Newspapers, Music, Computer stuff, Leather is divided into artists, suppliers and other. I have one folder called "Check" which is stuff I want to look at but didn't have the time at the minute. I don't save things in two places often, so I usually get a prompt if I'm trying to save something twice. When I want to save a bookmark, I edit the title to something I will recognize- "Welcome to Joe's Leather House est. 1910" will become "Joe's Leather House" or whatever I need to do to make it quickly identifiable. I alphabetize my favorites in my folders, which makes it easier to find what I'm looking for because I probably already know a bit of the name. I put my favorites folder on my flash drive for when I'm out with my laptop. I also found a nifty piece of software called AM- deadlink that works with Vista that keeps the favicons and sort through the bookmarks for outdated ones. Johanna Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Denise Report post Posted October 3, 2008 Daring to look ignorant here, but are bookmarks and favorites the same thing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
8thsinner Report post Posted October 4, 2008 Yes, once a web page address is saved as a favourite it becomes a book mark. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JustWakinUp Report post Posted October 4, 2008 Johanna, Thanks a bundle, i'll be implementing that script soon. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Denise Report post Posted October 4, 2008 Thanks, 8thsinner, for answering such a basic question. I thought because I have to scroll down now on my favorites list my number was getting large. Nope, don't do as much surfing as you guys do, obviously!! Never know what you will learn on LW! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
