In Firefox I have on the order of 10^3 bookmarks. I need a tool which provides the following features:
- Grouping (tagging / categorization – either is acceptable)
- Browser (prefer Firefox) integration (can use standard tools to cross browsers/systems)
- No vendor lock-in (can export my data in standard formats)
These all come standard, though grouping is buggy, in Firefox. I would like:
- Automatic offline archival of website content (ie, text of blog post)
- Social shareability is a plus
- FOSS is a plus, as is free-as-in-beer
- personal knowledge base integration is nice
Have considered:
- Fx bookmarks (buggy, most likes short)
- Write myself (effort duplication?, buggy, incomplete, more interesting problems)
- social bookmarks backend (ie, digg, delicious, etc)
- Tiddywiki (+is current knowledge base, -not integrate with web browser)
Of those three, the second is the only one that effectively meets my core requirements, while still possibly meeting some of the wants. However, a theoretical panacea is valued far below a practical cure.
What applications/tools have I overlooked that best meet these challenges? I am not adverse to a little cash, or a little scripting, to make it work.
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Best Answer
You mentioned Delicious, which may have everything you are after,though I am not sure they offer is the offline archiving, but you could probably do that with another application. Otherwise, it's got the social shareablity, grouping, integration (I know of at least 2 plugins for Chrome, so I imagine they have more than that for FF.
It's also backed by [correction: AVOS, see below], which gives it some stability over the long haul. I can't remember what their plans are for it, but as far as I know they are keeping it around.
XMarks is a good option if you don't want the social aspects of Delicious, and it provides more of a hierarchical organization rather than a tag-based one.
Both of these solutions work across all major browsers, so you can have access to the same bookmarks in a different browser on the same machine, or wherever you are.