Choose Yahoo Bookmarks or Furl?

January 15, 2009 10:42 AM

Help me choose between going with Furl or Yahoo Bookmarks.

I'm choosing between these two because they have the things I need:

1)online only
2)cache copies of web pages and will search on web page text
3)free
4)bookmarks can be kept private by default

I need help deciding which to commit to using. I hope to not have to change for many years.

(btw, I don't need or want any other Yahoo services)

Thanks.

posted by atm to computers & internet (5 comments total)

I used furl for a few years, but they've tweaked it to a point where I find it not so fun to use anymore. I'll stick with delicious for now, until somebody comes up with something neat.
posted by ducktape at 10:48 AM on January 15

Yes, I'm a Furl fanboy (check my comment history). One added feature: Furl allows very rich exporting and importing of your bookmarks. Here's their options:

Furl XML
Zip archive
Browser bookmark
MLA citation format
APA citation format
Chicago citation format
CBE citation format
BibTeX citation format

The Zip archive allows you to export your bookmarks and the cached pages. All of the features you mentioned work very well. I've been using it for 4 years.

Try it for a bit and see if you like the interface. It is a bit ugly.
posted by ALongDecember at 10:56 AM on January 15

When I was picking an online bookmark service, my priority was integration with the browser. For that, I chose Spurl, which works well. However, between the two choices you've listed, it looks like Furl has decent Firefox integration.
posted by spiderskull at 9:52 PM on January 15

Thanks guys.
posted by atm at 7:26 AM on January 19

Personally, I like Netvouz, which has most of the features mentioned (no cache), both tags and folders, and a dead link checker which I find very useful.
posted by timepiece at 4:46 PM on January 20