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by ThomPete 4788 days ago
Interestingly I had that exact discussion with some friends yesterday too.

I normally divide it up a little different.

1. The things I want to save for possible use later. 2. The things I need for something specific but only once. 3. The things that I want to read later. 4. The things that I use now and then or often but can never remember the url for.

The last of the four to me is the one most often overlooked and is why I still haven't found a tool I like.

Things that fall into that category is.

My netbank, internal links, insurance site, things I am a member of, online tools, asset libraries that I use often etc.

The best analogy I have been able to come up with so far is a desktop/launchpad for the browser and it might be exactly that way of thinking about bookmarks that will make someone come up with a good enough solution one day.

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My favorite for #4 is Google's +1. You need a Google Plus account. +1 is like Facebook like, only it boosts the ranking of that link whenever you are logged in and search. Not every page has a +1 button, but there is a chrome plugin for that. Side effect: the links you +1 are boosted for your G+ friends too, so the bookmarks are sort of public.
Yeah what I want is a cluster of links that is always "floating" no matter how i tagged them and no matter how long it's been since I bookmarked them.

So +1 doesn't really work since I want to tag them #LinksINeedNowwAndThenButAlways

Not gonna work for me. First thing I do after installing a browser is to install ghostery and disable all the social buttons.

Also, wouldn't you be exposing yourself to spam from all the sites you +1 ?

I could be wrong here, but I don't think you get inbound posts in your G+ stream (or email) from +1s, unlike FB "Likes" which give the owner the ability to post to your New Feed. On G+ you have to go and explicitly "Circle" a business / web site to see their posts.