End of the Road for Xmarks

Re:End of the Road for Xmarks by sjs on Tuesday September 28, 2010 @02:25AM (#1734776)

Instapaper. I know that's kind of a cop-out but incidentally it (and Google) have killed my use of bookmarks apart from a relatively svelte bookmarks bar. Instapaper is my reading queue, Google is my long-term memory. Bookmarks are more like shortcuts for me now.

The nice thing is that I can "bookmark" any link from any browser that I use, as well as twitter and RSS. And I have them instantly on my iPad, phone, notebook, or any machine with a browser without installing any software or extensions.

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Re:End of the Road for Xmarks by mitjak on Tuesday September 28, 2010 @12:50PM (#1736282)

What do you mean by Google? Google Bookmarks, the Chrome sync? Google Notebook? :)

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Re:End of the Road for Xmarks by sjs on Tuesday September 28, 2010 @08:11PM (#1737831)

Oh, just Google's search. If I want to find something I previously read I Google it now instead of sifting through crufty, old, poorly organized and needlessly hierarchical bookmarks. Tagged bookmarks would help there I guess (like Delicious) but then you have to tag everything...

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