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What are the best ways to organize bookmarks?

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Best ways to organize bookmarks	Price	Platforms	Software Type
90 Buku	Free	Windows, Linux, Mac	-
89 Pocket	Free / paid	Android, iOS, Kobo, web, macOS, Windows	Google Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari extension, desktop app
77 Raindrop.io	Free / paid	Windows, Linux, Mac, Mobile	-
-- xbrowsersync	Free	-	-
72 Pinboard	$11-25/Y	-	-

Buku

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Top Pro

Import/export

Importing means that you don't need to start from scratch to try Buku, and exporting means that you don't risk locking yourself in by doing so. Buku allows you to import and export bookmarks from and to a few important formats, including the recently added orgfile. See More

Top Con

Assumes that you always know what you're doing

Buku doesn't show you what will happen before it performs a command that you input. For example: If you type the command to delete a bookmark, there's no way to see which bookmark is tied to the index that you input before the deletion happens. You need to know yourself by checking with another command. Couple this with the lack of a way to undo actions, and you could end up with a situation where you accidentally delete the wrong bookmark (or worse, range of bookmarks) and find out afterwards, without having any way to know which bookmark was deleted by this mistake (because bookmarks are identified by reassignable indices, not URLs or titles) and no way to undo the damage that was done. This lack of safety means that you must know exactly what you're doing before using dangerous options like "-d", or you could cause irreversible damage. See More

ImmaculateMarduk's Experience

It's awfully powerful. And there are numerous examples even for novice terminal users. Open source and free! Definitely a delight for terminal users and a server GUI is probably under cooking. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac

Top Pro

Extensive search options

Include, exclude, regex, tags, all or partial search terms. See More

Top Con

CLI only backend, Bukuserver provides a self-hosted GUI

Buster Blue's Experience

The best dedicated bookmark manager I've used yet. See More

Top Pro

Fully compatible with Firefox bookmarks

Also supports Google Chrome, Chromium, Opera... See More

FriendlyHozanek's Experience

Liked the various search options. See More

Top Pro

Under active development, responsive team

The project is maintained actively with a rolling ToDo list and the devs encourage feedback and requests. See More

Top Pro

Quality documentation

The Github page for Buku is useful for learning how to use it, and discovering features. See More

Top Pro

Powerful

Advanced bookmark management is possible, with the right use of Buku's commands. See More

Top Pro

Completion scripts

Handy completion scripts are available for bash, fish and zsh shells. See More

Top Pro

Easy to use

Using Buku is easy once you memorize its simple syntax. See More

Top Pro

GUI webserver available

Buku v3.8 has added a GUI based local webserver to access the bookmarks from the browser. See More

Top Pro

Checks added for deletion options

Checks have been added for all deletion options in v3.8 to show the bookmarks to be deleted and confirm with the user before actual deletion. See More

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Pocket

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Available on the web and mobile devices

Pocket is available on iOS, Android, Kobo eReader and on the web. See More

Top Con

Only the paid version allows to search by tag

VivaciousThanatos's Experience

This isn't a good alternative to bookmarking resources. This is just good for collecting articles you want to read. See More

Specs

Platforms:Android, iOS, Kobo, web, macOS, Windows

Software Type:Google Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari extension, desktop app

Top Pro

Allows reading saved content in offline mode

Instead of only saving the link, the content is saved for offline use. See More

Top Con

Correct and open export of bookmarks and tags are not possible

This means that Pocket is (currently) a total lock-in. This is very sad, unfortunate and creates a no go decision for any seasoned user. Too many bookmarking and tagging companies have stopped or have gone bankrupt these last years (e.g. Kippt, Spingpad, Delicious (to some extent), etc...). So, if you are going to invest a lot of your personal time and energy in curating your Internet findings (i.e. your bookmarks and tags), it is essential that a total, fair and open export (including all tags) functionality is provided. Personally tested the export "feature" and the resulting .html file that Pocket generates currently included only the URLs themselves, i.e. no save dates nor any of your personally curated tags, nor any other useful meta-data. This is deplorable, because otherwise, Pocket is a very polished and well-functioning piece of multi-platform and multi-device software/app/web service, with a very easy and well-designed and implemented user interface... Please fix this, Pocket ! These days of open and inter-operable web services, users are only attracted by valuable functionality, clean UX design and no lockins. See More

이시인's Experience

Firefox tags are removed when import. See More

Top Pro

Well-finished GUI and UX

Top Con

Search function in Pro version does not follow the proper date sequence

Although the pro version lets us search by tags, the search results unfortunately does not follow the time sequence of the saving of articles. Search results may show some old articles first, then a bunch of new articles, and then again old articles. It's so random and frustating. I have been using Pocket pro for quite a long time primarily because it lets me have the permanent copy of a news (this feature is really useful in journalism). However, when I search tag wise for the old references, the absence of time-sequencing the search results really frustates me. See More

Mat Rhein's Experience

Not for managing bookmarks but web articles! See More

Top Pro

The Pocket plugin for Google Chrome is very stable

Top Con

Can't rename the title of links

If the page title isn't correct/good for a link, there is no way for you to fix it. See More

ShojiVR's Experience

unable to rename the title is dealbreaker for me as bookmark manager, imagine the link has some random name like LOL or unknown word "asdasdasdewte" then pocket doesnt allow you to rename it which make it impossible to locate in the future See More

Top Pro

Allows tagging bookmarks

Bookmarks can be tagged for search accuracy later on. See More

Top Con

Not really a bookmark tool but a tool to save webpages for later reading

A real bookmark tool has editable fields like title, url, folder, tags, notes. This saves webpages. See More

InfluentialLiberalitas's Experience

UNREAL! No bulk imports allowed on Mac defeats the purpose of the service. A deal breaker. See More

Top Pro

Included in Firefox

Pocket is now integrated into the Firefox web browser, and you can login using your firefox/mozilla login, instead of having to create a separate account. This login method can even be used natively on their website, regardless what browser is being used. See More

Top Con

Deleted or edited tags do not go away from tag suggestions

For example, imagine you accidentally created a tag "US" instead of "USA," and saved some articles under "US." The unfortunate part is even if you edit the tag and rename it "USA" , the previous tag name will always appear in the suggested tags: so when saving an article, if you type US in the tag box, you will see two suggestions "US" and "USA." See More

Yanis's Experience

Awesome Tool See More

Top Pro

Integrates with over 500 apps

A key advantage of Pocket is that it is integrated in over 500 apps as a way to save the link, including Twitter, Flipboard, Pulse and Zite. See More

Top Con

Chrome addon doesn't let you open your library without saving current page first

LikableTriteia's Experience

Can't share your (complete) list with other people, collaborators,...or export your list without losing the tagging data. It's made that you stay with pocket... . See More

Top Pro

Works well across Google Chrome on macOS and iOS

Top Con

Can't import Firefox bookmark tags

When importing bookmarks from Firefox, Pocket doesn't include the tags. See More

Top Pro

Highlighting available on iOS

Top Con

Chrome addon doesn't allow you to add tags with keyboard only (have to use mouse) while saving page

Top Pro

Ability to filter by content type

Raindrop.io

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Beautiful and customizable interface

Ability to change interface theme, performing bulk operations, sort by various options and extensive search. See More

Top Con

Security/Privacy Concerns

The contact information on the website indicates that the business is a sole proprietorship based in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The privacy policy, section 3 concerning how the information they collect may be disclosed, may be concerning to some users given recent events that have been alleged to involve the governing authorities for this business. See More

ReceptiveAntaeus's Experience

I am still searching for my #1 Bookmarks Manager App (the one that I can use on all my devices - iphone / iPad / iMac / and a Safari Extension or Sharing ability. It has been hard to find one to do all those things yet but hopefully soon. I mainly use this app to save open Safari tabs that I wasnt to revisit later but dont want to forget and also want to keep organized. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac, Mobile

Top Pro

Design (UX)

Really well done. See More

Top Con

Collections cannot be nested while free

Collections cannot be created inside of, nor moved into another, collection while not subscribed. While free, existing nested collections can only be moved into the 'root', and if moved accidentally, this cannot be undone. See More

Mohammad H. Sattarian's Experience

Before Raindrop I was searching for such a service to manage and organize my bookmarks at least on a single system with no syncing, and I couldn't find any service good enough to satisfy me. but after Raindrop it's all Me enjoying surfing the web, with no fear of losing what I've found meanwhile ;) See More

Top Pro

Access bookmarks everywhere

Clients for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and Web. See More

Top Con

Basic features only available in pro version

The free version has a limit of image uploads and can be increased to 1GB/month with the pro version. Also Dropbox backups are only available in pro version. See More

ShojiVR's Experience

Best bookmark manager i ever used, it also able to generate thumbnails based on bookmark in most effecient way, as example : image gallery sites thumbnails are focused only on main pictures instead of showing entire homepage, make it easier to locate the pictures. See More

Top Pro

Import bookmarks

Offers a possibility to import bookmarks from browsers. See More

Top Con

No email integration

There's no way to send email content to raindrop. See More

Pamela Foester's Experience

I am using it for 4 months and now it becomes my Favorite Bookmarklet. Easy to use and the best option I like that it gives category option so you can define the category to your bookmarks. See More

Top Pro

Export bookmarks

There is also a possibility to export bookmarks. See More

Top Con

Bugs with collections

There are some bugs for example with number of bookmarks in a collection. See More

Tushar Borole's Experience

Simple and powerful bookmark manager See More

Top Pro

Tagging

Add tags to bookmarks. See More

Top Con

Slow moving of bulk of bookmarks

Moving from one collection to another one is slow. See More

Top Pro

Fast search

Use the guided search to find exactly what you're looking for. See More

Top Con

Subscriptions are non-recurring

You have to resubscribe every month to keep pro which is a real pain. See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform

Cross-platform because it's browser based. There are also apps for Mac, Chrome, iOs & Android. See More

Top Con

Slow performance in Safari

Slow to use with delays in response on Safari. Has not been fixed over many years. See More

Top Pro

Multiple tagging

Search by adding more than one tag. See More

Top Con

Can't edit URL of existing bookmark

Top Pro

Sidebar extension

Top Pro

Collections and nested collections

Group bookmarks into collections. With paid upgrade, collections can also be grouped. See More

Top Pro

Rich visual information for each bookmark

Display a screenshot or the site's logo, or view articles without leaving Raindrop. See More

Top Pro

Regularly updated

Top Pro

Supplemental information for each bookmark

Generous description fields so you remember why you saved the page. See More

Top Pro

Collaborative

Top Pro

Autosuggested tags

Top Pro

Collection public share

Collection can be shared with others using a public link. See More

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Collection private share

Collections can be shared with other users, and they can see the collection as one of their own and are able to add bookmarks to it. See More

xbrowsersync

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Encrypts your bookmarks securely with a method you can check for yourself

Top Con

No iOS app

They decided to ditch the iOS app. See More

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Anonymous

No sign up required and no personal data is collected. See More

Top Pro

Developer seems to be actively developing the app

https://github.com/xBrowserSync See More

Top Pro

It is free and the developer announces that it will stay this way, neither are there any ads involved

Top Pro

Use this extension on all majorly used browsers

Chrome (and most up to date 'chromies', as well as Firefox and Android. See More

Top Pro

xBrowserSync adds descriptions and tags to new bookmarks automatically

Speeding up workflow cataloging important meta-data automatically. See More

Top Pro

Know your way around docker? xBrowserSync is easily self hostable

Not only will it benefit the people who set up docker containers, if opened to the public, even more people will be able to quickly get to know xBrowserSync LINK https://hub.docker.com/r/xbrowsersync/api See More

Top Pro

Use this extension on all majorly used browsers

Chrome (and most up to date 'chromies') as well as Firefox and Android. See More

Pinboard

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Top Con

Paid service

Costs $11/year. Many features are available elsewhere for free. See More

Top Pro

An ad-free site with no third-party tracking

ExceptionalAgon's Experience

Private, all platforms, available offline, shows you the most popular pins from the community See More

Top Con

Unresponsive support

Don't expect a response from their support email. Developer is very active on twitter, perhaps a tweet might work better. See More

Top Pro

Cheap

The standard account is $11/year. The pro account ($25/year) provides you: A permanent personal copy of every bookmark you save. Full-text search of all your bookmarks Dead link and error detection See More

PoliteVarmanpaz's Experience

This has very good API. I bookmark all the articles that I save for reading in Pocket. Pocket has an archive facility, but not back up of your saves. See More

Top Con

Can't provide service paid for

I paid for an archival account for 5 years; as my subscription was about to end, there was no way to download my archive. The download button accomplished nothing, emails went unanswered, my post to the pinboard google support group was not approved, dm on twitter was unanswered. A public comment on twitter got me a reply that he'd "look into it", then nothing. $100+ down the drain! Save your money and look elsewhere. See More

Top Pro

A searchable archive of all your tweets and favorites

Top Pro

Easy tagging

Top Pro

Excellent API

Pinboard has an API that gives you access to all features used in the webapp, so you can build scripts and apps that work against it very easily. See More

Top Pro

Paid service

The service receives direct income from its customers so it is less likely to disappear overnight like so many free services, taking all your bookmarks with it. See More

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Easy download of all your data

Top Pro

The ability to bookmark by email from your iPhone

Top Pro

A way to save notes and other snippets of text as bookmarks

Top Pro

Built-in sync of links and favorites from multiple Twitter accounts

Top Pro

Built-in integration with Instapaper

Booky.io

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Bookmark Ninja

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Clean UI

Top Con

Is paid

EncouragingNamtar's Experience

clean UI, no buggy functions, no irky bits See More

DignifiedPhthonus's Experience

To install to iOS it says to “Install Bookmarklet" from the Bookmark Ninja main menu.” No such button. See More

Diigo

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Good mobile apps and browser add-ons available

Top Con

Very slow and unresponsive development team

DeliberateSirona's Experience

Because I paid for it.. am still .. mostly 'cause I spaced the renewal.. but it's easy to use, as a tab hoarder + use 2-5 other browsers.. all with 100's of tabs over 5-20 windows.. I have pics of my gradually growing # on the 'Tabs Outliner' plugin.. like 600 was top..mania.. heh.. Anyway, Diigo supports all those browsers so .. it helps with feeling like I'm in control of -something- .. some part of the 'Flow' like research and the clunky interface.. This seals it.. I'm putting in the interface tonight.. BCi baby! See More

Specs

Platforms:All web browsers, Android & iOS

Top Pro

Tag, group and make lists of bookmarks

Top Con

Privacy concerns

Developer company is from China, it's advisable to be careful. See More

ExceptionalZeus's Experience

Their Dev team mess up with users data. I was a paid user and they forced us to adoped changes that users were disagreeing in their forum. They also never replied our emails. See More

Top Pro

Read later function

djchuang's Experience

Very affordable for premium features and I've got thousands of bookmarks saved up in Diigo. See More

Top Pro

Integrates with other web services like Twitter and delicious

DetailedPolybotes's Experience

It (the paid version only?) has a cool feature that allows links to be arranged and exported in a clickable outliner form. It can be edited, reformatted, etc. To me, it made it more universally useful, if I wanted to share the links, or use them in Word, etc. See More

Top Pro

Sync bookmarks

Papaly

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Top Con

So far impossible to delete account

Menus only give option to deactivate, not delete account. Can't log into helpdesk with main account credentials (as it says you should), so no way of tracking submitted ticket. Deleting account should not require helpdesk input. See More

Top Pro

Easily customizable

You can organize your bookmarks however you want. See More

GutsySzelanya's Experience

Couldn't even sign up with e-mail. See More

Top Con

It is slow on Chrome web browser

A new tab opens slower than on others. See More

Top Pro

Great bookmark resource

Simple and well designed bookmarklet with a lot of useful features. See More

ReliableMarqod's Experience

I found it slow and clunky, took forever for boards to be deleted, moved, renamed See More

Top Con

No Android App

Top Pro

Cross platform

Instapaper

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Top Con

Search functions return random articles

The search function is very slow and does not provide accurate results. The user can not filter or reorder the search results, or search the archive or annotated articles. See More

Top Pro

Can look up words in a dictionary and Wikipedia

Lindsay McKinnon's Experience

I have always liked Instapaper. Unfortunately, it doesn't always come to mind in my work flow. I sense it won't be around much longer. The owners need to spruce up its relevance again. See More

Specs

Platforms:web, Android, iOS

Top Con

Very slow in adopting GDPR

Top Pro

Annotation tools

Allows leaving notes attached to articles and highlighting certain part of the text. Free version of the app is limited to 5 highlights a month. See More

Mzantsi Murray's Experience

Very poor development. No response from support, despite re-commencing charging a fee. See More

Top Con

Limited importing functionality

The only way to import the bookmarks you already have is from Pocket or Instapaper csv. This can be an insurmountable con to a lot of users. See More

Top Pro

Articles can be emailed to Instapaper

You can add articles to Instapaper by sending them to a unique email address associated with your account. See More

Top Pro

Speed reading

Top Pro

Highlighting

Tagpacker

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Top Pro

Free (no costs)

Top Con

No app yet, but optimized for mobile web usage

CompetentSenuna's Experience

Attentive to user's feedback. See More

Specs

Top Pro

Tags

It provides a simple but effective way to organize links with tags. See More

Top Con

Limit on HTML bookmark file import

Doesn't allow importing html bookmark files larger than 10 MB. It's not a deal-breaker though. Tagpacker offers a lot of features to keep me happy. See More

DelightfulMokoi's Experience

Loving it! See More

Top Pro

Great usability

Browser plugin that's worth installing. See More

Top Con

Uses affiliate links which can be seen as an invasion of privacy

Affiliate links are usually not only a way to earn money with advertisement, it mostly also includes generating user profiles which could be seen as a big privacy issue. See More

Top Pro

Supports Zapier for task automation

Top Pro

Clean, efficient UI

Top Pro

Good for large link collections

Effective organising and management of large link collections, searchable, with custom tags and tagpacks (categories), and ability to upload mages for links. See More

Top Pro

Export as HTML

Fast and easy. See More

Top Pro

Available API

Which offers extensibility. See More

Top Pro

Date

It saves the date when the bookmark is added. See More

Top Pro

Follows strict privacy rules

Because it is located in Germany, the company has to follow very strict rules regarding privacy. See More

Top Pro

100% free (at the moment)

The company earns (enough) money with affiliate links, therefore there is no need for a purchasable pro membership. See More

Wallabag

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Top Pro

Tagging

Top Con

Poor UI

UI is not as good as other apps in this category. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Web, Mobile

Top Pro

epub/kobo integration

Integration within Kobo reader through simple hack allows epub creation of saved articles. See More

Top Con

Difficult to configure

Top Pro

RSS reader compatible

Miniflux, Vienna, FreshRSS, Tiny Tiny RSS, Leed FeedReader, Fiery Feeds. See More

Top Pro

Import content from other apps

It's possible to import content from other apps, i.e Pocket See More

Top Pro

Offline article support

Top Pro

Firefox and Chrome extensions available

Top Pro

Open source

Top Pro

Optional server self hosting

start.me

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Great to have bookmarks, feeds and notes in one place

Start.me offers a great tool to stay organized and productive because it allows all bookmarks, news feeds and notes to be available in one place. See More

Top Con

No longer able to meet security standards for Google Sign-In

Start.me used to have an e-mail widget which gave you quick access to your Gmail account(s) along with all your other bookmarks, but it requires a security assessment so that Google can ensure that they do not misuse user data obtained using restricted scopes per the Google API policy. As of 2020, they no longer meet that standard and the e-mail widget has been removed altogether. See More

Peter J. Mello's Experience

Used to be a fantastic service with a reasonable freemium approach. As of 2020, almost all development has ceased and what little remains is increasingly restricted to subscribers. I've moved onto other solutions and recommend others do likewise. See More

Specs

Platforms:Chrome Firefox iOS Android

Top Pro

Beautiful & Customizable Interface

It has a very nice and customizable interface + you can get your bookmarks online anyware. See More

Top Con

Should sell itself as a start page because they are not just a bookmark service

Be careful if you Curate Bookmarks or even just have a bunch. You can upload and export bookmarks now, the upload limit is raised. Still, you need an internet connection. See More

Top Con

Development could be faster

There's a lot to like about this product, but you need patience to see new widgets. See More

EverSync

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Top Pro

Compatible with many devices

Linkman

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Very handy See More

Atavi

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Top Pro

Only does one thing and does it well

On everything I own, every new tab I open in a browser has the same bookmarks in the same layout, and nothing more. See More

Top Con

No integration with Google for search box

Only allows searches via Yahoo!, Bing and Yandex. See More

Specs

Platforms:, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS

Search:Google, Bing, Yahoo! or Yandex

Offline support:No

Software Type:Web page

Top Pro

Completely free

No nag boxes to upgrade to a paid version, no donation boxes under every widget, just good old-fashioned gratis. They've been around since 2011, so it must be sustainable somehow. See More

Top Pro

Committed to supporting Opera browser

Too few companies make a point of developing for Opera the same way they do for Chrome and Firefox; Atavi does. See More

Top Pro

Convenient ability to share bookmarks or folders of bookmarks

Sharing a page is easy in just about everything, but when I need to share a folder of links (shopping list ideas or market research bundles), Atavi makes it easy for both me and the recipient. See More

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