I’ve seen so many good online services for Bookmarks. All of them are quite nice and sweet (del.icio.us, pluck, shadows.com, digg… and many others…).
Now… when I surf the net I usually drag my open tabs on the desktop to create links to review later on. This usually never happens and so I start accumulating icons on the desktop… then after a couple of days I throw them all in a “bookmark” folder in my documents… and they jst sit there forever.
Today I opened this folder and realized I’ve accumulated something like 400 bookmarks. Kewl. Now I know I will never review that stuff. But I wanted to do something mad: I’ve imported all those links inside my Firefox Bookmarks (in a subfolder called “Stuff to review”). What a pity I now have 400 more bookmarks in my browser without titles nor descriptions.
What would I like to see then? A software that:
- import my firefox bookmarks
- retrieve the title of the urls
- retrieve the favicon
- retrieve the most common tags used for that url from del.icio.us / shadows and eventually other similar services
- check the validity of all those links
- take a screenshot of all these pages (ok this is optional)
- export the resulting database into several formats (like mozilla, explorer, xml file, html file, sql database… whatever…)
- export / import / synch all of the urls (or just the selected ones) into/from del.icio.us
Now why a software?
Mainly because services like del.icio.us & co. are “social“. I just wanna keep my bookmarks for myself… at least until I’ve sorted them out! There are times when you just need to review the stuff you bookmarked… no need to publish it. I read so much dumb stuff on the net that I’d never like others to see it… not counting the tons of NSFW material I usually like to “review later” :D
What about a private online service then?
That would be cool. Login, password… and you do the stuff I listed above without the annoyance of others being able to watch what you bookmark and how you bookmark it. Sounds good. And it could have the feature to export to del.icio.us too if one wanted to go social.
Pluck kinda let you do such stuff but it’s terribly slow and it has not all of those features (title retrieval, tags retrieval and so on).