[yardie]

This is great! I've got 40 tabs open in firefox and my browser is straining under the pressure. A lot of them is research for work (servers, services, reviews). Some of it I don't care to bookmark. And some of it I'd like to read at home but have no way to get it there except emailing the link to myself.

[baby]

I used dragdis and/or evernote before that. I'm gonna try this new thing but I'm scared it will be like the others and just become a place where I put things I'll never read.

* I like it better than dragdis, you don't have to drag anything to save it! Which is a pain on a laptop.

* It's too hidden and like other of its kind I might forget about it and never read what I put there.

[mgkimsal]

2 things I'd like to see in a bookmarking service.

1. Have it email me nightly or weekly recapping what I've bookmarked.

2. At some point (perhaps in the recap) show me if any of my friends have also bookmarked the same thing (perhaps from Facebook or g+ graph data).

I could live without #2, and might want to opt-out - there are some things I bookmark I wouldn't want other people knowing about, but some things I wouldn't mind.

[cpayne624]

" Have it email me nightly or weekly recapping what I've bookmarked."

Yes, yes, yes please.

[gk1]

> "...a place where I put things I'll never read."

Bingo. I stopped using bookmarking services after finally admitting this to myself.

I also had this nagging feeling from having a list of "to read" links that I never read -- like having a long list of "to dos" that you never get around to doing, it makes you feel bad.

And whenever I did make the time to read some of these things, they were disappointingly insignificant.

[mosselman]

"I did make the time to read some of these things, they were disappointingly insignificant."

That is what I get with using Pocket. I put stuff in there that when I get around to reading I think "was THIS what I was keeping that browser tab open for all this time?"

I think that we want to read those things because we are procrastinating doing something else. Like what I am doing with writing this comment :).

[pron]

We're all web-hoarders.

[filmgirlcw]

Not sure if there is a similar tool for Firefox but what I've been using for that is One-Tab for Chrome. It simply stores a list of open tabs in a window when you click the button. You can share a link of that list to access later, but there are no logins and no cloud support. It's basically just an easy way to save a slew of tabs for later that you might not want to bookmark.

[lazyjones]

Um... Just drag the URLs from the location bar to your Dropbox/Wuala explorer window and click on them later?

[yardie]

Um, some of us like to keep work on the work PC and home on the home PC. If I install Dropbox at work work now has access to my things at home.

[kbutler]

Second dropbox account and share specific folders.

Dropbox also has a "Selective Sync" feature to sync only some folders, but I couldn't get it to work (with repeated installations, running on a Mac).

[yardie]

No, I prefer this. It as some very rich metadata tagging and categorization. I've used Dropbox to share files for years and it's starting to show. Files go in but if you don't do constant pruning it becomes a drag.

This fills a niche I think we all have. You have a link or article you see and want to read but you aren't on your phone or your tablet. Typically I email the link to my personal inbox.