Furl!
Posted on July 26, 2004
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First I found “Tasks”:http://www.usetasks.com which keeps my to-do lists in a central place that I can get to from any Internet connection, now I’ve fallen in love with “Furl.”:http://www.furl.net
Browser bookmarks are great for those sites that you visit regularly. But often I find my bookmarks are full of articles & quick tips. An article here on how to get around an IE 5 rendering bug, an article there about a TiVo hack, a neat image from a stock photo house that I may want to use on a future job, etc. And then, I have the hassle of trying to keep my bookmarks organized between 3 computers and a PDA. Enter “Furl.”:http://www.furl.net It’s free (for now, at least) and with a Javascript bookmarklet it’s one click and the page you’re looking at is saved. Even better, like IE’s old Scrapbook feature it caches the content at the time the page is saved as well as retaining the link. So if the page is bombarded with traffic or changes for whatever reason, you still have the content that was there when you saved it.
The search engine is fantastic. You can “Google” your saved articles so even if they’re not filed perfectly, it’s a snap to find that article you saved a few weeks ago about how to make better grayscale images from Photoshop.
You can share your “furled” links, generate a RSS feed of them, import/export them or keep them private. I don’t think I trust any pages to it that I absolutely must keep private, but for everyday links that I want to remember but not necessarily visit often (which is 90% of what I want to save) it has been quite a find. No pun intended.
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There’s also del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us), which I am a raving fan of.