Another 2.5 Tools

Ading to the list of simple tools for managing URLS and comments about URLs come two suggestions.

Phililp Webre recommends askSAM. But I’m a formerly happy user of surfsaver. It saves the entire page, not just the urls, which would be ok except that it does so in a proprietary format (or at least it used to) so that when it broke and askSAM couldn’t fix it, I lost all my data. I also got stuck in upgrade hell with them: couldn’t install the new, couldn’t get the old back…

Jonathan Peterson recommends Compass which looks pretty durn neat:

I love compass (), it can import/export opera, Netscape, IE bookmarks, you can do drag-n-drop and hotkey bookmarks, it autograbs meta tag info, but allows you to stick in your own comments as well. It works pretty well out of the box, but has a lot of customization features while still being pretty small and quick. I’ve got over 1500 bookmarks, in dozens of categories and subcats. One of the most powerful features is an HTML/XML export, which isn’t well documented, but lets you do stuff like: http://way.nu/bookmarks/, which I know I wouldn’t deal with otherwise.

The author is very responsive, I made a feature suggestion that he implemented with 2 months and I’ve managed to lose my serial number twice and he’s emailed it back to me.

James Sisk points us to a tool that he knows isn’t quite right but that looks interesting anyway. Hunter/Gatherer. In the words of the site: “Hunter Gatherer lets users select information of interest from within Web pages, and have those components collected automatically into a new web page.” It seems to be a research project and it is definitely not yet available.

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