# Is their any software to manage bookmars? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 15, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-their-any-software-to-manage-bookmars/550353 "2010-08-15T20:32:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-their-any-software-to-manage-bookmars/550353/1 "2010-08-15T20:32:29Z")
My least favorite chore is trying to manage bookmarks for Firefox and IE. I’m up to at least 250 in Firefox. It takes awhile to hunt down a link. There doesn’t seem to be a “find” feature in bookmarks. You have to scroll and scroll until your eyeballs burn. 🙂 I always say I’ll organize this crap into folders. Yeah sure maybe some day when the sun don’t rise. 😃 Is there any software to make this easier? Especially something that would find dead links? At times I’ve been tempted to say screw it and delete the bookmarks file and start fresh. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-their-any-software-to-manage-bookmars/550353/2 "2010-08-15T20:50:15Z")
In my version of Firefox (and I don’t believe I installed or set anything to be this way), you can show your bookmarks in a sidebar, with View, Sidebar, Bookmarks (or Ctl-B). At the top of the sidebar, there is a “search panel”. If you type some letters in this space, only those bookmarks which contain that string will remain. This should facilitate searching. Also you can create folders and directly drag your book marks into those folders to organize them. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-their-any-software-to-manage-bookmars/550353/3 "2010-08-15T20:54:16Z")
I’ll have to check out sidebar. I haven’t used it before. Thanks! I wish there was a good software bookmarks manager. Something that would let you assign tags. Select multiple links and move etc. Tags are easier to deal with than folders. You could have tv, books, science, news etc. tags ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-their-any-software-to-manage-bookmars/550353/4 "2010-08-15T20:59:26Z")
By “manage”, do you mean synchronize between IE and Firefox? If so, something like [Xmarks](http://www.xmarks.com/) might work. It’s an addon you install to each browser you want to keep in sync. As for finding them, do what OldGuy said or even just start typing the name into Firefox’s address bar (in version 3 and later). It’ll search automatically through your bookmarks that way. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-their-any-software-to-manage-bookmars/550353/5 "2010-08-15T21:00:26Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I’ll have to check out sidebar. I haven’t used it before. > Thanks! > > I wish there was a good software bookmarks manager. Something that would let you assign tags. Select multiple links and move etc. > > Tags are easier to deal with than folders. You could have tv, books, science, news etc. tags Firefox’s own bookmark manager can do all that, including moving and tagging. CTRL-SHIFT-B. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-their-any-software-to-manage-bookmars/550353/6 "2010-08-15T21:02:06Z")
Bookmarks are searchable in Chrome. Just switch, you’ll be happy you did. Plus there are tons of bookmark-managing extensions (and I’m sure plug-ins for Firefox, but I’m more of a Chrome fanboy) if you want additional functionality. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-their-any-software-to-manage-bookmars/550353/7 "2010-08-15T21:09:00Z")
This article lists several bookmark managers. [http://www.squidoo.com/firefox-bookmarks-addons](http://www.squidoo.com/firefox-bookmarks-addons) What I’m looking for mostly is organization. Tags are what comes to mind. Or being able to see a folder tree. Where you can graph and prune by moving the branches around. That’s really the only easy way to manage folders. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-their-any-software-to-manage-bookmars/550353/8 "2010-08-15T21:13:07Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > This article lists several bookmark managers. > [http://www.squidoo.com/firefox-bookmarks-addons](http://www.squidoo.com/firefox-bookmarks-addons) > > What I’m looking for mostly is organization. Tags are what comes to mind. Or being able to see a folder tree. Where you can graph and prune by moving the branches around. That’s really the only easy way to manage folders. Again, Firefox’s built-in bookmarks manager can assign/search by tags, lets you select and move multiple bookmarks at a time, and lets you see the tree structure on the left. Am I missing something? ETA: And the [CheckPlaces](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10897/) FF addon can scan for duplicates and dead links. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-their-any-software-to-manage-bookmars/550353/9 "2010-08-15T21:18:39Z")
ok That’s what I need. I found an article that explains firefox tags. I see they’ve made it easier to search by tags too. > **[Bookmark Tags - Categorize bookmarks to make them easy to find | Firefox Help](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/categorizing-bookmarks-make-them-easy-to-find?redirectslug=Bookmark%2BTags&redirectlocale=en-US)** > > You can add "tags" to bookmarks. These tags are used to help categorize bookmarks so you can find them easier. Learn how they work. Tag Sifter has a nice search add on. [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/998/](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/998/) Now I have to assign tags to my links. That’ll take awhile. I think it’s worth the effort. I’ll run Checkplaces first to kill dead links. Thanks everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-their-any-software-to-manage-bookmars/550353/10 "2010-08-15T21:24:00Z")
Also, since we’re on the topic… 1. After you’ve tagged your bookmarks, keep in mind that you can just start typing the tag into Firefox’s address bar to see a list of matching bookmarks. Like typing “shopping” would show you a drop-down list of all your bookmarks tagged as such. 2. Sometimes it’s easier to just use Google instead of a huge bookmarks list 😉 In Firefox, if you type in a website name in the address bar and nothing matches your bookmarks or history, it’ll automatically do a Google search and take you right to the first result. “amazon” would take you to [amazon.com](http://amazon.com), for example, and “wsj” would take you to the Wall Street Journal. Guess where “sdmb” takes ya? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-their-any-software-to-manage-bookmars/550353/11 "2010-08-15T22:35:40Z")
The most useful Tag is “Today” I have perhaps 8 web sites (several are news sites) I visit a few times everyday. It will be wonderful to type in Today and see them. I’ll also have a news tag for sure. you can assign several tags to the same bookmark. the sdmb will be tagged Today too. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-their-any-software-to-manage-bookmars/550353/12 "2010-08-16T00:14:23Z")
I’ve always used folders and put them on the bookmarks toolbar right under the address bar. To create a bookmark, I drag the link to whichever folder I want it in so every bookmark is already sorted when I create it. ---
**Author:** ![J-P\_L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/j-p_l/32/3156_2.png) [@J-P\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J-P_L)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-their-any-software-to-manage-bookmars/550353/13 "2010-08-17T16:51:17Z")
A freeware program called [AM Deadlink](http://www.aignes.com/deadlink.htm) can be used to check for dead links