Small Business Management

Have you ever sat down to find a website that you surely bookmarked only to never find it? Or, find it after hours and hours of going through the 100′s of bookmarks?

Yeah I have! And it’s terribly frustrating!

And, you know what sucks even more? For some unknown reasons, Firefox ate up my bookmarks at least twice in the last year. I don’t know why. It must have been some error but, I’d get up one morning and all my bookmarks were gone!

That was just horrible.

So, I decided to try all the other bookmark solutions that were out there and tell you what? I didn’t really like anyone in particular.

Some of them had horrible user interfaces (I don’t need things to be pretty but I do like things that are easy to use!!).

I think I looked at every single bookmark service and then gave up. I decided Google’s service might be the best.

Google Bookmark wasn’t bad, probably the one I liked the most.

But, the good news is I’ve found something much better and I’m completely in love with it!

And the best bookmark service I’ve found is….

Diigo

1. Easy user interface.

2. Easy to add bookmarks.

3. You can also sticky note things.

4. You can highlight stuff (I really like this feature).

5. Easy to add tags.

How to organize stuff

It’s one thing to have the best system and it’s another thing to make it work.

I bet all the top bookmarking services have tons of advantages when it comes to organizing but it’s your job to make it work.

How to organize bookmarks

This is a system that works for me. I can’t guarantee it will work for everyone but it’s a good starting point.

1. Use both folders and tags. I use folders to sort alphabetically and tags to sort by project/interest area.

2. I use description not the websites’ name.

For example:

If I was bookmarking CNN, I might tag it in N and create another tag called NEWS.

The important part with bookmarks and such I find is sorting out if you really want to read them later on.

If you do, put it under to-read. If it’s just something that maybe good to know about later on for whatever reason, just tag it under “maybe useful”.

And do a clean sweep once in a while!