[thelist] managing bookmarks

Tom Dell'Aringa pixelmech at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 11 10:31:00 CDT 2002


Of course this is all predicated on both machines having a floppy....which the don't ;) But good
idea.

Tom
--- Neil Mcgill <n.mcgill at unn.ac.uk> wrote:
> I also have hundreds of bookmarks at home and at work which need
> synchronising every so often (its annoying to add bookmarks at work and not
> be able to remember them for use at home).
> Anyway, I found this simple way of updating both sets of bookmarks -
>
> Simply export your favourites from Internet Explorer to a separate file on
> your desktop and edit the source to re-arrange/delete them as you want (in
> dreamweaver/frontpage/notepad whatever)
> Remember to keep the extra stuff added in the hrefs and also the general
> layout (uses DT/DL tags)
>
> Save this file to a floppy disk and take it home - Import it to your home
> browser. Multiple url's are overwritten (as long as they are in the same
> folders).
> Now you have a SUPER BOOKMARK file with hundreds of links.
>
> Re-export the new bookmarks to another file on your desktop. Edit this file
> as you want it (to remove any extra or unwanted urls).
>
> Now delete ALL your existing favourites (from the windows/favourites/ folder
> or NT equivalent - documents and settings/username/favourites/ ) and Import
> your new ready made and up-to-date bookmark file.
> Re-save this file to the floppy disk.
>
> Back at work delete all your favourites again, and import the bookmarks from
> the floppy.
>
> Now both your home and work bookmarks are identical, so the hard work is
> done.
>
> If you add any new bookmarks in the future, re-export your bookmarks to the
> floppy and import them back to the other machine. Only the newest bookmarks
> will be added, since both machines had the same original bookmarks in the
> same structure.
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tom Dell'Aringa [mailto:pixelmech at yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 3:13 PM
> > To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> > Subject: [thelist] managing bookmarks
> >
> >
> > Ok, I've had it up to TOP: HERE; with my bookmark situation. I have
> > bookmarks at home, bookmarks
> > at work and bookmarks in my head. Some duplicates, blah blah
> > blah. I know
> > there are various online
> > bookmark organizers. I tried to use flipback or some such but
> > I was not a
> > big fan, too much
> > overhead. Is there some simple way to have your bookmarks
> > online, quickly
> > accessible and safe?
> > Whether its a service or whatever I don't care, there must be a good
> > solution, and someone on this
> > list must know it!
> >
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