Comments on: I Know I Saw It Somewhere…

By: Radek

Radek — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 18:00:15 +0000

ContentSaver Pro (http://www.macropool.com/en/) is a way better then Onfolio.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:04:14 +0000

I have used Surfsaver http://surfsaver.com for years - saves web pages into an ASKSam Database that has full text indexing and searching. Powerful, unfortunately only works with IE, and has a quirky interface.

I've also used Mybase http://www.wjjsoft.com/, which has excellent ability to save and recreate web pages, but search isn't as good. Also only I.E so far.

By: Shantanu Oak

Shantanu Oak — Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:45:35 +0000

There is no doubt that furl is one of the best applications. But I have 3 suggestions if all the excitement has cooled down.
1) Importing from IE:
Is it possible that IE bookmarks being synchronized in just one click instead of exporting from IE and then importing in furl?
http://upsave.com/cgi-bin/main.pl?mode=tools
Upsave and a few others have done it very well.

2) Duplicate bookmarks:
Is there any way to find out the duplicate links I have furled (twice) by mistake?

3) Collaboration:
since furl is a mix of both, blog and bookmark manager, it's not a blog nor a bookmark manager. I was expecting that a single URL can be saved by me and others can comment on it. But it seems that everyone in my group needs to furl and comment on it in his own workspace. Then somehow I have to find out a page where the names and comments of the people are listed discussing the link. I will like to see a simple comment feature as supported by any other blog software.

By: Robert Stribley

Robert Stribley — Mon, 23 Feb 2004 15:00:11 +0000

Sorry, I didn’t disappear – apparently, I’m still living in Janaury.

By: Robert Stribley

Robert Stribley — Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:56:04 +0000

Weird. This story disappeared from your homepage John. Did you mean to remove it?

I've become addicted to Save This for bookmarking stuff for later retrieval, especially since you can add brief comments, story them in folders, etc. More friendly than BackFlip, I think, though I don't use it to store links permanently.

By: Numit

Numit — Sat, 21 Feb 2004 11:52:39 +0000

Yeeeahd, it’s csool

By: Adam Lasnik

Adam Lasnik — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 08:20:46 +0000

I'm entering this arena (of bookmarking) cautiously. I know (and have known for ages) that simple IE bookmarking is completely un-scalable and practically useless. I spend at least 8 hours on the Internet daily, and likely see hundreds if not over a thousand of pages each day.

I've thought of Seraku, but alas, it doesn't integrate into myIE (and I can't stand the regular IE browser... ack!).

I've read tons about del.icio.us and in fact it seems to offer even more functionality than Furl with one (major) exception: it doesn't index full text.

So I guess the "best" option might be:
- Seraku if you have a sporadic connection to the net, have no interest in sharing your links, and work primarily on one computer.
- Del.icio.us (what an awful name!) if you are primarily interested in sharing your links and in discovering other interesting links.
- Furl if you want to share a bit, but are primarily interested in being able to quickly grab a particular article that you read 8 months ago using a few keywords.

I wonder if there are other similar offerings that I'm missing.

By: Edward Vielmetti

Edward Vielmetti — Sat, 24 Jan 2004 07:01:31 +0000

I’ve been using del.icio.us as a “social bookmark manager”, works nicely for the purposes.

By: victor

victor — Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:03:02 +0000

Hey, Michael, I have no doubt you’ve done a bang up job on furl, but you’ll have a hard time convincing me my system doesn’t work. You know, for me I’ve been using it for almost a year, I find everything I need.

(I just looked it up, the first link I entered was: http://skepdic.com )

By: Michael Giles

Michael Giles — Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:48:58 +0000

Sure, having a separate blog category (or blog) for links is one approach. As is saving lots of links in your blog. But what happens when you want to find that article again a few months from now? Or a year or two later? Do you walk through all of your links/posts looking for it? Do you hope you remember the brief comment you made at the time? Unlikely. But you probably remember a few fragments of the article. And that is part of what makes Furl special/powerful. It basically becomes your own Google with full text search of everything you've read. And you still get RSS and simple integration into your website so you can share your links.

And yes, AimAtSite and Seruku are great if you only use the Internet from a single machine, don't want to share your links, and trust yourself (and their software) to be able to port all the data across when you buy a new machine/OS.