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View Recent Bookmarks Sorted By Date & Time In Google Chrome

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Bookmarks can be divided into two types: those for sites you want to refer back to in the immediate future, and those for sites you want to keep around pretty much forever. Now, common sense dictates that older bookmarks, the ones you’re storing, should appear at the bottom and newer, more recent ones that you’re probably going to view earlier, should appear nearer the top, for ease of access. Firefox has the coveted “Recently Bookmarked” viewer in its bookmarks panel, but not Chrome. That is, not until Recent Bookmarks for Chrome, an extension that adds a button for quickly viewing your latest bookmarks in a list divided by day and date. Read More

Add Chrome & Firefox Bookmarks To Mac Spotlight Search Index With Brow

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Spotlight in OS X indexes a lot of things but when it comes to browser bookmarks, it does index the ones saved in Safari, but not the ones saved by other browsers. If you use more than one browser and often struggle with different bookmarks libraries for each one, you might like Brow. It’s a small free utility that adds your Chrome and Firefox bookmarks to Spotlight’s index. While it runs in the background or the Menu Bar, it continually monitors the profile folders that each browser creates, and keeps the bookmarks up-to-date in Spotlight’s index. This makes your bookmarks saved across three different browser searchable from one central location i.e. Spotlight. Read More

Quickly Move Firefox Bookmarks To Any Folder From Right-Click Menu

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As many of you might know already, Ctrl+D is the universal shortcut for bookmarking the current page you’re viewing in all major browsers. As quick as it, it adds the current page directly to the Bookmarks bar, or to the last folder that you saved a bookmark to. The good thing is that if you aren't too much of a procrastinator, you can transfer the bookmark to a different folder right there. Click on the little button though, and you have a different story; the page is simply bookmarked and your browser doesn't ask which folder it should go to. You can always clean and sort your bookmarks from the bookmarks manager but if you’re a Firefox user currently unhappy with the Bookmarks library that now also hosts your browsing history as well as downloads, you might want an easier way to sort these bookmarks out. Bookmark Quick Mover is a Firefox add-on that modifies the right-click context menu that appears when you right-click a bookmark in the bookmarks bar. It adds a ‘Move’ option to the menu that shows you all folders in your bookmarks library and allows you to easily move the selected bookmark to any of them. Read More

Access Both Chrome Bookmarks & Apps From The New Tab Page

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No bookmarks bar has enough room to comfortably display all your bookmarked pages. Even if you sort them carefully into folders, you will not be able to see them all at a glance. Quick Bookmarks is a Chrome extension that gives you a more open view of your bookmarks. The extension takes over your new tab page and lists bookmarks and bookmarklets that you've saved to Chrome in a simple array of columns and rows, complete with their folder structure. There are quite a few extension that do something similar but Quick Bookmarks does so while still keeping your Chrome apps available from the New Tab page, and also makes it easier to manage bookmarks. You can add your frequently accessed folders as tabs to the new tab page, and drag & drop bookmarks around to move them. Read More

Add Page Content Or Position-Sensitive Bookmarks In Firefox

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If you've ever bookmarked a webpage and later forgotten the reason why you had done so when you first found it, you aren't the only one. A useful webpage's bookmark entry doesn't always tell you why it’s useful, and it’s easy to forget even if you've put it in the right folder in your bookmarks library. Advanced bookmarks Add-on for Firefox helps you remember why you saved a webpage, by letting you save a web page to a scrolled position of your choice, or to a particular text snippet on that page. These bookmarks are stored separately from your other bookmarks and Advanced bookmarks Add-on adds its own Bookmarks manager for these position and content -sensitive bookmarks. Read More

Save Website Links To Read Later & Archive Them When Done [Chrome]

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If your bookmarks bar is a mess, you can start cleaning it up by removing duplicate bookmarks, and if you would like a convenient way to sort bookmarks when you save them, try saving bookmarks with a few keyboard shortcuts. Though while helpful, neither of these methods solve the problem of clutter accumulating later in your bookmarks as you keep on saving more. If you would like to just save bookmarks so you can read them and be done with them once read, you need OX: Bookmarks. It is a Chrome extension that treats your bookmarks much like Gmail treats you emails. The extension basically saves all bookmarks you create from it to an ‘OX’ folder on your Bookmarks bar, and then manages them for you based on read/unread criteria. Like emails that you haven’t read or archived, OX: Bookmarks shows you a list of unread bookmarks each time you open a new tab. Once you’re done reading a page you've bookmarked, you can archive it, which moves it to an ‘Archive’ folder, from where you can also delete it later if you want. Read More

Add Articles To Read-Later Services From Safari & Chrome On iOS With Readr

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If you have ever tried to read a lengthy article (like Haroon’s extremely detailed analysis of Ubuntu Touch Preview) on your iPhone, you are sure to have realized the usefulness of Mobile Safari’s ‘Reader’ view. However, you have to wait for the Reader button to show up by itself, as there is no way of invoking the mode at will. Readr is a new Cydia tweak that adds the Reader option to the sharing menu of Safari. And if you aren't satisfied with Safari’s own Reading List, the tweak also lets you associate your Pocket, Instapaper or Readability account with the browser so that you can add any post to these services without requiring a third-party app. The fact that it works with Chrome for iOS as well makes Readr absolutely perfect at what it does. Read More

Actotracker Auto-Records A History Of All Activity On Your Mac

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If you’ve ever come to work on a Monday and wondered what were you doing on Friday, you’re not alone. You might also have suddenly drawn a blank while working on multiple tasks, and completely forgotten what it was that you were doing. Worst still, you might have spent a considerable amount of time looking for a file or folder, only to discover that you've lost it again because you forgetfully closed everything. Actotracker is a free Mac app that built for keeping a record of all your activity on your Mac. It tracks wherever you go, whatever app you use, and which URLs you visit. It can also takes screenshots of apps' states. Furthermore, you can add notes and also manually specify apps or places that Actotracker should mark. Your history is searchable and can be filtered by day, week, month, or app. Read More

Holmes Remembers What You Last Searched For In Your Chrome Bookmarks

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We’ve covered quite a few extensions for managing, sorting, cleaning up and removing duplicates from your bookmarks. There’s an extension for just about anything and everything you might want to do with bookmarks. Holmes is yet another bookmarks extension for Google Chrome that allows you to search your bookmarks from the Omnibar as well as from the extension’s own little popup. What sets Holmes apart from the rest is its ability to remember your last search. It has a nice interface, and gives you very accurate search results. If you have any bookmarklets added to your Bookmarks Bar, you can have Holmes exclude them from the search. Additionally, Homles can list the twenty recent pages you bookmarked, or show only the newest bookmarks that match your search. Read More

Find & Remove Duplicate Bookmarks With Ease In Firefox

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Bookmarks are hard to organize if you haven’t always kept them that way from the start. Once a mess starts to build up in the bookmarks library, there is little that can keep it clean if you aren't willing to invest the time to do it yourself. One of the by-products of poorly organized bookmarks is links saved multiple times in different folders. They contribute to the volume of the bookmarks and make it difficult to keep them sorted. Bookmark Duplicate Cleaner is a Firefox add-on that finds and cleans these duplicate bookmarks. It analyzes all bookmarks that you've saved and lists the links with their duplicate locations. You can choose to remove the duplicate bookmarks from select locations or delete them all. Read More

Bookmarx Is A Faster Way To Select & Create Folders When Saving Bookmarks In Chrome

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The shortcut for bookmarking websites on all browsers is meant to make a quick job of it, and organization is sacrificed in its name. Websites are bookmarked to the the Bookmarks Bar or to the last folder that a bookmark was saved to. There is no way for you to quickly choose - with our keyboard, for instance - where a bookmark goes. Browsers themsleves aren’t really trying to fix this but Chrome users can try Bookmarx. It is an excellent Chrome extension that will change how you bookmark websites. It’s something like a command line tool that allows you to select and create folders for saving bookmarks to. It uses simple keyboard commands to move between folders, autocompletes folder names and also provides suggestions for folders within a folder. Read More

Get A Neater Chrome Bookmarks List That Remembers Last Opened Bookmark

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We’ve covered extensions for managing bookmarks in abundance, but since no single extension has enough features to satisfy everyone’s needs, we keep looking for more. Neater Bookmarks is yet another Chrome extension that will make it easier for you to browse your Chrome bookmarks. Bookmarks in Chrome are accessible from the bookmarks bar, and if you prefer to keep it hidden for the most part, you are either toggling its visibility or accessing it from Chrome’s options (which is kind of the long route). Neater Bookmarks adds a button beside the omnibar that neatly displays all bookmarks in a small pop-up. Not only is the panel’s layout visually appealing, it also remembers your position when you’ve scrolled to a folder and highlights recently opened bookmarks when you close and re-open them. Apart from this, the extension allows you to customize how links are opened. You can open all bookmarks inside a particular folder and close unused folders (in the panel’s tree view) once you’re done with it. Read More

Bookmark#: Organize & Search For Chrome Bookmarks Using Folders As Tags

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A couple of days back we reviewed Bookmark Tagger, a Chrome extension that lets users add tags to bookmarks. The extension works independently of the default bookmarks that you save to Chrome, and has the option to import the bookmarks on the Bookmarks Bar. Bookmark# is a Chrome extension that is similar in functionality, but infinitely better than Bookmarks Tagger. It allows you to add tags to existing bookmarks and search for them from the Omnibar. Bookmark# doesn’t create its own separate set of bookmarks, it adds tags to Chrome’s bookmarks and makes adding these tags super simple by offering a tree like structure. The ‘tags’ are in fact folders and can be managed using the default bookmarks manager, albeit the extension’s own tag manager is more suitable and easier to use. When searching bookmarks, you can choose to make the search case-sensitive, ignore spaces, accent marks & punctuation marks. It also supports two search modes that you can choose to use; recursive (which includes all bookmarks in a child tags) or non-recursive (which excludes bookmarks in child tags). Read More

Add Tags To Chrome Bookmarks & Search For Them From The Omnibar

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How many bookmarks do you have on your bookmarks bar and how many have you saved to separate folders? If your answer to either or both questions is a couple of thousands bookmarks, it’s likely that grouping them into folders is of little help to you when you’re looking for something. Bookmarks Tagger is a bookmark managing extension for Chrome that handles large bookmark collections the right way. It allows you to tag your bookmarks with as many tags as you want and then recall a bookmarked page by searching for it from the Omnibar, using any of the entered tags as search parameters. Bookmarks Tagger does not let you create folders, since the use of multiple tags seems to negate their purpose. It allows you to import bookmarks from Chrome, though just the ones saved to the Bookmarks bar and not from any other folders. Additionally, it adds a bookmark icon next to the URL bar that lets you quickly save a new bookmark to Bookmarks Tagger, complete with tags and a title of your choice. Read More

Favekeeper: Automatically Sync Bookmarks To Cloud From System Tray

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Managing an extensive list of bookmarks/favorites manually often becomes tedious for the common user. There are various popular utilities like Xmarks (browser extension) that provide bookmark synchronizations between all popular browsers. What if you could access these bookmarks from frequently used browsers with just a click on your system tray? Favekeeper is an application for Windows that lets you easily sync bookmarks from your browsers with its cloud. With this application, you can easily search and access links from your desktop, browsers and mobile devices for the better. With multi-user management and a built-in Recycle bin feature, managing valuable links becomes much simpler. In addition, it follows your browser in the sense that if you delete a bookmark from your browser, Favekeeper would move that entry to its Recycle bin, enabling you to easily recover the URL with a click. Hence, this utility is sure to keep your favorites safe! Read More

Popular Article Bookmarking App Instapaper Comes To Android

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After receiving umpteen number of unofficial Instapaper clients, Google Play Store finally welcomes the official one! The simple yet immensely popular iOS app that lets you bookmark favorite webpages – online articles, journals and blog posts – download included content, and then read all the bookmarked stuff later in offline mode, has eventually made its way to the Google Play Store for Android users. However, offline reading is not all what Instapaper has on offer; it comes across as a universal app that has been optimized to run equally effectively on smartphones as well as tablets (Nook, Kindle Fire et al). In addition, the app offers several handy tools, such as customizable font size and types, spacing, indentation, in-app sharing, custom folders, and day/night reading modes, that help you easily bookmark, organize and read your favorite articles on the fly. Read More

ListenItLater Is Like Read It Later Or Instapaper For Music [Web]

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Music is believed to be the most vivid language in order to express the inexpressible. The passion for music has never been as alive and nourished as it is since the internet resources revealed music oriented communities that help everyone who is serious about music. In the realms of a wide range of such applications, ListenItLater (sounds similar to Read It Later, no? It’s not just the name, but the functionality too) grabbed my attention due to its potential to help you listen to a continuous stream of songs or be the DJ of your own music station. ListenItLater allows you to easily save the music you find so you can play it when you do have the time, helping you find, save and listen to your new music easier, better, and faster. Read More

Symbaloo Brings Its Efficient Bookmark Management App To Android & iOS

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Symbaloo is a simple-to-use and innovative bookmark management web app that lets you organize and share bookmarks favorite websites with utmost ease. Simply put, it’s a visual bookmarking web service that enhances your URL bookmarking experience by presenting you with a sleek interface, supplemented with dozens of visually attractive tiles and logos of your favorite URLs and RSS feeds. Using Symbaloo, you can group bookmarks relating to a specific topic under a tile-oriented interface, referred to as webmixes. Here’s some good news – the service has just launched its official Android and iOS client to help mobile users explore their custom webmixes and underlying visual bookmarks on the go. Read More

Thingsly: A Universal Wish List For Online Content [Web, Chrome]

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Thingsly is a smart web application (with a powerful Chrome extension) that lets you collect, arrange and organize your favorite links and imagesfrom all over the web. It lets you connect to various communities that share similar tastes, and allows you browse through their discoveries. The service uses images to bookmark content, only requires a simple sign up, and offers visual bookmarking, which you can use to save content for later use or create wish lists for products or items you love. The Chrome extension for the service grabs all images from a website and displays them in a neat pop-up. Selected images can then be added to existing or new collections. Additionally, you can browse the Feed category that comes with a massive collection of images, or you can find people who have similar interests. More after the break. Read More

RapidLinks: Create A URL List & Access It From Anywhere Using An Activator Gesture [Cydia]

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It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance and usefulness of Activator. It plays an essential role in the working of many Cydia items, and the latest to benefit from the gesture control tweak is RapidLinks. This new Cydia tweak allows users to create a list of their favorite URLs, which can then be accessed from anywhere in iOS by simply performing a selected Activator gesture. This means you don’t have to launch Safari, tap the address bar and then key in the address of your favorite websites; you just have to use the designated gesture to access them all from one place. This functionality is pretty similar to the Add to Home screen feature in Safari, but the RapidLinks tweak can prove to be more useful than that as you don't have to create separate entries for single URLs, and in addition to that, the gesture control supported by the tweak makes the whole thing more accessible and streamlined, in addition to keeping your Springboard uncluttered. Head past the break to learn all about this time-saving and useful Cydia tweak. Read More