Being a beginner to advanced Internet techniques I have never used any additional Bookmark Managers. The way that I organised my bookmarks is by using the inbuilt facility that comes standard with most search engines. I usually click on the bookmark button on the tool bar and save the URL into an appropriate folder I have named e.g.
Curtin University, sometimes with a sub folder like NET 11 This method has served me well to date.
But for this task I have downloaded and installed to types of Bookmark Managers the first being a Firefox add-on called Hyper BK Bookmarks. This Bookmark Manager has features which include automatic classification and history enhancement. It will automatically categorize a webpage with respect to the bookmarks thus the history is sorted out by category. Also it offers lots of features regarding bookmarks like verification, caching and page thumbnail.
The other Bookmark Manager is called Check and Get (Freeware Edition) http://activeurls.com/ Check & Get lets you monitor web pages for updates and notifies you when changes were made to the page. It can save a snapshot of the page for offline viewing, detect dead-links, duplicated and mirrored web pages and allows you to search and sort your bookmarks by URL, description and keywords. You can import your existing Favorites from Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape and Opera, and manually add new items to the list as well. It offers customizable settings per site, each with individual schedule and criteria that trigger an update notification. The notification options include sound, email, and popup alert. Additional features include keyword search and highlighting, integrated browser display etc.
Snapfiles (nd)
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http://www.snapfiles.com/get/checkget.html
Because I’ve only recently downloaded these two programs I haven’t had time to familiarize myself properly with all of their features, so an opinion of their performance would be premature. Although having said that, once familiar they may be helpful in managing my bookmarks ( especially Check & Get )…time will tell.
As well as using the Firefox default Bookmark Manager for general book marking, I would, if the information was of greater importance, save the URL information as a word document file placing it in an appropriate folder in “My Documents”. The following is how I would organise this information.
Vicnet (Victoria’s Information Community Portal) (nd)
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http://www.vicnet.net.au/training/advance.html
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Rocky Mountain Web Studio (nd)
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http://www.rockymtnweb.com/free/advanced/index.htm
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CIESE (Centre For Advanced Engineering & Science Eduction) (nd)
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http://www.k12science.org/tutorials/advanced/
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