Take Your Bookmarks With You

Portable Bookmarks is a portable bookmark manager enabling you to, well, take your bookmarks with you anywhere. The most obvious choice would be a USB drive, but if you’re the stationary type, it will work just fine on your PC. And while you could even take it with you on a CD, I’m not sure why you’d want to.

The software has a small footprint so you can easily install it on any removable device. I can see this being a benefit to business travelers, but even more so for IT personnel. At my office, our IT guys login from a DOS prompt or external drive on the network to access the files they need. It would be so much easier for them if they just kept their links stored on a thumb drive. And if they did it using Portable Bookmarks — even better.

When compared to online bookmark managers, the difference is quite apparent. Don’t get me wrong, I love using online services such as Diigo, but what Portable Bookmarks offers you is something different: security, synchronization, duplication removal, and, of course, portability.

One thing that I found interesting is that instead of integrating with a browser, it instead displays itself as a “drop target” — an icon — that hovers in any location you choose to drop it on your computer screen. With the ability to adjust its transparency, it can remain there unobstrusively, too.

Clicking the drop target is how you access your bookmarks and perform functions such as searching for a link in your collection, or adding a link, even activating the application interface itself. Searching is fast, too. It showed me a match even before I finished typing!

Despite what web browser your computer is set to use by default, you can configure your collection of links to open in a browser of your choice. On my computer I have Firefox and Internet Explorer, so I’m not sure if they were the options because that’s all I had available to me or if that’s all Portable Bookmarks was setup to be used with.

Want more features? How about: password protection, adding descriptions and keywords, hotkey activation, organize multiple collections of links, and importing/exporting your links to/from a browser.

They offer a free trial for downloading, which can only accept up to 100 links. The full version, which costs $24.95, does not have that limitation.

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