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Discussion on: An elegant way to archive our voracious curiosity

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Happy Ratty • Edited

I test internet research productivity tools. I believe there is no one size fits all product yet. Bookmarks are only valuable if they can be found and utilized when needed. For this most people need saved links to resurface when using google searches. There are three products that I am aware of that immediately show you bookmark results along side of your google searches. I have only tested and used Chrome extensions for the following...

  • Evernote. (which can be more than some people need)
  • Diigo. (only returns results from library to google on the paid plan)
  • Papaly. (my personal favorite although development was abandoned)

Raindrop.io is a good fit for many and for free you can manage large link collections.

If you want to store links with sensitive data, log ins and passwords, I'd use Roboform. It is the only password manager with bookmarks, secure notes and log ins. Making it easy to log right into a site saved. The bookmark folders are about the same as most browser folder bookmark systems, if that works for you.

Start.me has a unique market position with a tabbed based start page that you can store bookmarks, widgets such as rss and weather. Much like the iGoogle pages of long ago only more modern.

Personally I use Diigo premium. Tags, screenshots, sticky notes saved to webpages, annotate, highlight, share, outliners and returned results in google are very helpful. I only wish it had column views but ... it is as close to perfect as I have found.

Just my 2 cents worth..

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Shawn McElroy

Check out notion.so

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Happy Ratty

Yes, I have been playing with it some. Got annoyed with image sizing. Need to go back in there and play some more. It is a very impressive application. Like dropbox paper and airtable had a beautiful baby! lol

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Shawn McElroy

Yea in the last few months that it has got a lot better. Especially with table support.