How do YOU bookmark?

[Dentafrice]

I'm working on a pretty great, new product that may help students and young adults like yourselves and myself, as well as designers and developers.

My question to you is: "How do you manage your bookmarks?"

If you could help me out, that would be great!

1) Do you just user your browser?

2) Do you even ever bookmark anything?

3) If you could share and receive links (related to coursework) from your teacher or professor, would you? As well as sharing them with your classmates?

4) If you could create a group of people, say... Developers... and share links in between those people, would you like that?

5) What are some things that would make your bookmarking experience GREAT?

6) Would you rather go to a site to bookmark, or be able to click a button in your browser and have it bookmarked?

-- Caleb

[Recursion]

1) Do you just user your browser?
Yes.

2) Do you even ever bookmark anything?
10s of bookmarks a day sometimes.

3) If you could share and receive links (related to coursework) from your teacher or professor, would you? As well as sharing them with your classmates?
We used Google Docs for this in A Level, it proved very handy but was a little bit of hassle.

4) If you could create a group of people, say... Developers... and share links in between those people, would you like that?
Yes, again we used Google Docs, but it was a bit of a faff.

5) What are some things that would make your bookmarking experience GREAT?
A site to easily manage both private bookmarks and bookmarks you've shared with other people. Some browser integration (particularly FF and Chrome) would be nice too. If you could send an email to something like [email protected] with a list of URLs in and they automatically got added to the list online would be very useful too.

6) Would you rather go to a site to bookmark, or be able to click a button in your browser and have it bookmarked?
Click a button in the browser itself.

It would also be nice if this sync'd across browsers, I know you can use something like Chrome sync but if they were all on one site, in one place, it'd be epic.

Off topic, but I think you'll have a hard time winning back trust from users who were around from TehUpload.

[Dentafrice]

Thank you for your very helpful post.

From what you said, would you rather have an e-mail to send it to, or the ability to hit export on your browser and have all your browser bookmarks imported?

This would sync across all browsers. All bookmarks would be online and have an ability to be public, and private (encrypted).

The TehUpload incident was an unfortunate loss, three years ago now? Or two. Either way, it's been ages and this isn't the place to discuss it. That being said, things like that help you realize to test every feature before being released.

[Sharon]

1) Do you just user your browser?
Yes

2) Do you even ever bookmark anything?
Yes

3) If you could share and receive links (related to coursework) from your teacher or professor, would you? As well as sharing them with your classmates?
N/A

4) If you could create a group of people, say... Developers... and share links in between those people, would you like that?
Yeah I guess

5) What are some things that would make your bookmarking experience GREAT?
It would automatically bookmark a website you regularly use.

6) Would you rather go to a site to bookmark, or be able to click a button in your browser and have it bookmarked?
Both?

[peteyt]

1) Do you just user your browser? Yes, but occasionally will write URL's down temporary (old fashioned way)

2) Do you even ever bookmark anything? - Yes regulary

3) If you could share and receive links (related to coursework) from your teacher or professor, would you? As well as sharing them with your classmates? - At university we used blackboard to share documents, links, videos. It was pretty handy as lecturers could put up timetables and more importantly briefs, deadlines etc. as students such as myself often loose printouts. Some lecturers who used slideshow's in lecturers also uploaded them along with other notes which was handy to look back at if you lost anything.

4) If you could create a group of people, say... Developers... and share links in between those people, would you like that? It would be handy to have something like that. I actually have a coder for the station/media company I'm running setting up a service for files and also jobs which we'd be using to upload files but also the statuses of work.

5) What are some things that would make your bookmarking experience GREAT? - Ability to easy share links right from your browser without needing add-ons, automatic backup would be handy. Maybe the ability to actually save a pages content somehow. So that if anything has changed since you last visited and bookmarked, you can compare the changes.

6) Would you rather go to a site to bookmark, or be able to click a button in your browser and have it bookmarked? I always just click the star in Chrome and add it to the bookmark as its quicker.

[RandomManJay]

1) Do you just user your browser?
Pretty much, yes.

2) Do you even ever bookmark anything?
I usually bookmark sites I regularly go on, or ones which are important or significant at the time.

3) If you could share and receive links (related to coursework) from your teacher or professor, would you? As well as sharing them with your classmates?
We used the Blackboard facility at university, but I think it would be good and helpful for people in Secondary School and Sixth Form etc.

4) If you could create a group of people, say... Developers... and share links in between those people, would you like that?
I can see how it would be useful, but at the moment I wouldn't really have any need for something like that.

5) What are some things that would make your bookmarking experience GREAT?
To be honest, I like the system as it is now. I don't go to the bookmark menu to create a bookmark anymore, I just go to a website and use the Ctrl D keyboard shortcut, and the bookmarking window comes up, so all I have to hit is enter on my keyboard :P. Also with the new Firefox, the little bookmark button on the right side of the window is quite a nice feature which suites me perfectly.

6) Would you rather go to a site to bookmark, or be able to click a button in your browser and have it bookmarked?
Like I said above, I just go to a site and use the keyboard shortcut. It's perfect for me as I'm sort of a keyboard shortcut geek :D. So I prefer the bookmark features being entirely in-browser built.

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[Recursion]

Thank you for your very helpful post.

From what you said, would you rather have an e-mail to send it to, or the ability to hit export on your browser and have all your browser bookmarks imported?

This would sync across all browsers. All bookmarks would be online and have an ability to be public, and private (encrypted).

The TehUpload incident was an unfortunate loss, three years ago now? Or two. Either way, it's been ages and this isn't the place to discuss it. That being said, things like that help you realize to test every feature before being released.

Precisely :P

And agreed, it's nice to see you around working on something new again to be honest :)

[lolwut]

1) Do you just use your browser? Yep.

2) Do you even ever bookmark anything? Yep.

3) If you could share and receive links (related to coursework) from your teacher or professor, would you? <snip> Probably not. Sometimes I need to share links to family or friends though. I find it a little bit inefficient to have to email the link to them, but it's probably better than us both signing up for a bookmarking service (which we'll rarely use).

4) If you could create a group of people, say... Developers... and share links in between those people, would you like that? No. I'd only share links if the person's asked for it.

5) What are some things that would make your bookmarking experience GREAT? Sexy UI. Not having to sign up to use it would be cool.

6) Would you rather go to a site to bookmark, or be able to click a button in your browser and have it bookmarked? Click a button.