Replacement for Annotary, anyone??
January 26, 2016 8:49 AM Subscribe
Annotary, a site for collecting and organizing bookmarks, has been replaced, and I lost all my data. What other sites are there?
Annotary was a site for collecting and organizing bookmarks. I liked it and used it extensively. Lately it has gone buggy, and this week I find that the url (annotary.com) now goes to something called Draggo, which claims also to be for collecting and organizing bookmarks. I cannot, however, access the collection(s) of bookmarks I had assembled with Annotary. I have queried "Draggo" and have gotten no reply. So I can only assume that a) my Annotary collections are gone, and b) they don't give a rat's ass.
I really find the utility of such a thing extremely useful and would like to start up with another site, if possible. Having been burned by Draggo, I have no intention of signing up with them. My question is: Does anyone else in the MeFi world use such a service and if so which one?
Many thanks in advance.
Annotary was a site for collecting and organizing bookmarks. I liked it and used it extensively. Lately it has gone buggy, and this week I find that the url (annotary.com) now goes to something called Draggo, which claims also to be for collecting and organizing bookmarks. I cannot, however, access the collection(s) of bookmarks I had assembled with Annotary. I have queried "Draggo" and have gotten no reply. So I can only assume that a) my Annotary collections are gone, and b) they don't give a rat's ass.
I really find the utility of such a thing extremely useful and would like to start up with another site, if possible. Having been burned by Draggo, I have no intention of signing up with them. My question is: Does anyone else in the MeFi world use such a service and if so which one?
Many thanks in advance.
Ugh. I was just wondering if Annotary was gone for good this time and it seems all signs point to yes. I've been using Pocket to save articles but it doesn't have my favorite feature of letting you highlight parts of the page. I tried Evernote but it was too bloated for my fairly simple needs.
This page mentions that Diigo has highlighting, so I think I'll try that next.
posted by blu_stocking at 9:09 AM on January 26, 2016
This page mentions that Diigo has highlighting, so I think I'll try that next.
posted by blu_stocking at 9:09 AM on January 26, 2016
I use Pinboard now after using Delicious for years. I was happy to pay a little for something to get that extra confidence that the site would not just disappear like Delicious had threatened to a few times. I still back up my data regularly using the backup utility (some call it export). I also use an IFTTT recipe to have all my new public bookmarks sent to another place as an extra kind of backup.
Wherever you go, be sure to grab a copy of your bookmarks on a regular basis.
posted by soelo at 9:27 AM on January 26, 2016
Wherever you go, be sure to grab a copy of your bookmarks on a regular basis.
posted by soelo at 9:27 AM on January 26, 2016
I use Pinterest for this really.
posted by Medieval Maven at 9:47 AM on January 26, 2016
posted by Medieval Maven at 9:47 AM on January 26, 2016
Nthing Pinboard. I used Del.icio.us from 2004-2011 when AVOS bought it and ruined it. I was happy to pay for a Pinboard account to get more or less the same functionality that had become such an essential part of my web surfing - minimalistic, decentralized taggable bookmarks (I've never really used any of its "social" features, so can't really comment on how those might compare to anything Annotary had.) Like soelo, I do try and grab monthly backups of all my bookmarks just in case... it's easy to do, the hardest part is remembering.
posted by usonian at 9:52 AM on January 26, 2016
posted by usonian at 9:52 AM on January 26, 2016
Another vote for Pinboard. I jumped to it from Delicious when Yahoo leaked that it was EOL, and I've been happy with it. It's run by one guy who's making enough money to keep running it. It's also possible to download all your bookmarks, and I have a script that does so once a day.
posted by adamrice at 9:57 AM on January 26, 2016
posted by adamrice at 9:57 AM on January 26, 2016
This issue is EXACTLY why I requested a feature in Linkagogo.com. Took him a couple of weeks to implement it. Every week I now get an automatic email with all my bookmarks attached. So worst case, like the site goes away, I lose only a week's worth of links.
While it has hierarchical categories, it also has Aliases, so a single entry can be in many places. Other feature highlights include timeline view, parameterized bookmarks, and reminders which can be setup daily, weekly, on a specific day or after a certain amount of days.
posted by Sophont at 6:25 PM on January 26, 2016
While it has hierarchical categories, it also has Aliases, so a single entry can be in many places. Other feature highlights include timeline view, parameterized bookmarks, and reminders which can be setup daily, weekly, on a specific day or after a certain amount of days.
posted by Sophont at 6:25 PM on January 26, 2016
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