Link Reference Tools

A few days ago, I asked people for suggestions for a simple tool that would let me save URLs and comments into folders. I heard from a few of you:

The ever-alert Chip recommends Treepad, a tool I had forgotten I’d downloaded a while ago. It’s small (470K zipped), it’s pretty friendly (the manual could use some work), and they have a workable version that’s free, as well as a more fully-featured versions you can pay for.

Gil Gilliam writes:

Have you looked at Zoot from www.zootsoftware.com ? It may be more than you want, but then again, you don’t have to use all of its features.

I had previous downloaded Zoot but it is a full featured “information processor” whereas I’m just looking for a place to stick some URLs.

Buzz Bruggeman at ActiveWords (and today the subject of an encomium by Doc) suggests:

Using ActiveWords simply name your URL’s according to a naming logic. For example all of the blogs’s I got to, I name “weblog”, then when I want to see them, I simply type, “weblog” trigger and see the list. Same for news, sports, research, travel, fun, etc. Real simple, real easy, and while only limited space for comments, they are only a word away, and also searchable inside ActiveWords.

ActiveWords has many things going for it, but it’s got too much if you just want to stick URLs into folders.

Doria Thodla (a name just dying to be anagrammed) of imorph recommends a service on her site:

It does not do all the stuff you want, but will let you put up a tool bar button, capture any URL you want, add a description, a set of keywords and will monitor the page for changes.

It is a service on our website (free for up to 10 pages)…

Please check it out at www.infominder.com

Kevin Marks comes in with a surprise suggestion: use the blogger bookmarklet tool. It doesn’t do exactly what I want, but it wins for Most Creative Suggestion.

So, for now it’s either Treepad or my home-brewed app. Thanks for the help, y’all!

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