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by F_J_H 4871 days ago
Evernote. Although a lot more than a bookmarking tool, once you fit it into your workflow, it is a pretty amazing tool for curating all kinds of things, and you can easily share it across all your devices. I couldn't live without it now.
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I find my Evernote has turned into a valuable asset. I used to create browser bookmarks, but without searchable content from the page, or something visual, no matter how much organization, it was often easier to just go back to Google to find the link.

If it's a good tutorial, etc, I copy the relevant part of the page, and paste into a new note. It keeps the formatting well enough, and on Desktop it picks up the Heading and Link on it's own.

A lot of times it will be a web design, or some other smaller UI feature that I like, and will screen clip the design and us Evernote as kind of a visual bookmarks.

I figured I'd share a screenshot of why I find the visual critical and a feature missing from all of the great sounding tools mentioned in this thread. Historious sounds great, but so much of what I remember is what it looked like.

http://imgur.com/S74Ef2u

An important distinction is saving content that you like for future reference versus saving links to sites or pages that you want to revisit to see new content there. Bookmarks or bookmarking services are great for the latter but not the former.

Evernote is great for saving content, retaining its format if you want it and making it searchable, including text in graphics. In addition, you'll still have the content if the webpage or site disappears. It saves the source URL as an added bonus.