Bookmark Search Tool
As I am surfing I use my bookmarks a lot. I currently have 1220 bookmarks and use many of them frequently. To keep my bookmarks sync’d across all of my computers (home, work, etc.) I use the great little Firefox extension, Foxmarks. With so many bookmarks though, I sometimes find it hard to remember what site I was on when I read a particular article. I would like a search tool that searches my bookmarked sites for specific content.
For instance, I might have read an article a few months ago about using gradients in Photoshop and now I would like to send a link to the article to a friend. I probably wouldn’t be able to find my needle in the Google haystack but then I remember that the article was on one of the 27 Photoshop sites that I have bookmarked. Using this new search tool I would be able to select multiple bookmarks (and/or bookmark folders) and search only those sites for the article using keywords. With the search results significantly narrowed down I should be able to find the article quickly.
I know Rollyo is an attempt to do something similar but I find it cumbersome to use. I don’t want to have to sign up to use it. I don’t want to manually add sites to the list; they are already in my bookmarks folder or on Delicious. Importing bookmarks from my browser doesn’t count either because it is still a manual process that I have to perform periodically to stay current.
Does anything like this already exist? Would you find it useful? Maybe you are an enterprising young programmer or know someone who would like to work on something like this. I think many people would find it useful. Leave a comment and tell me what what you think.
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Life. Its what the rest of us are doing. Get one. (in response to “1220 bookmarks”)
Bye Bro.
@Joshua
Ah, to be young and naively arrogant.