Google Bookmarks
February 2nd, 2007 by c4ck4 | 
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To many people Google is just a search engine and nothing more. The truth is, Google has lots of little features and services that are not very well publicized at all. Probably among the more well known services are Google Adsense and Google Adwords. Many of their services are listed on their page, but many of them remain more obscure for whatever reason.
Typically I use lots and lots of bookmarks. I browse the web everyday and I just constantly have bookmarks piling up. If they are made at work then I don’t have them at home and vice versa. Since I work on more than one or two computers regularly, this can be quite the headache trying to manage them all and find them when you want them. Some of the browsers offer bookmarks that you can sync between several computers, but again the problem is that I don’t have the same browsers on all the computers that I work on.
The solution is Google Bookmarks. It allows you to make all you bookmarks online, accessible from anywhere independently of what browser you are using. It has a neat little button that you drag to your browser’s links bar (works with Firefox and IE) that makes a ‘create bookmark’ button. So when you’re browsing the web and find a site you like you just click the button and it pops up a little window with the url already in it. You can then label it, change the title if you want, and even make a note about it.
Labels in this case aren’t just text names about the bookmark, but they are like tags you see on social sites or like labels in gmail. It allows you to label each bookmark with multiple labels for easy sorting and categorization. This allows you to use it the way you want to use it, and be creative in the way you use labels. I use an organizational system where I label things categorically for the most part, which is probably the way most typical users would organize things, but labels can do more than that. For example, I use a convention with a label I named ‘inbox’. This is where I bookmark everything that I don’t want to read right away. If I’m at work and can’t watch a video somebody sends me or can’t look into something I wish to research, I just inbox it and look at it later. This has been a huge time saver for me and makes my work much more efficient. I also have labels specific to things I need to address in a timely manner. I have a ‘to blog’ label, for ideas and information that I think is worth covering on here. Basic categorical organization mixed with a little creativity and Google Bookmarks can go a long way towards making your day more efficient and hassle free.