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Ask HN: Suggestions for a Xmarks replacement?

2 pointsdesigooner8 comments

So with Xmarks shutting down soon, I need a good solution to sync my bookmarks to replace Xmarks across computers/browsers. Chrome Bookmark sync doesn't work at all for me, and It's a pain to manually sync across browsers and devices.

Anybody have recommendation for a service (I'm ok with a paid service at a reasonable price) that has good plugins for chrome / firefox and allows me to tag my bookmarks and search them.

Historius? Delicious? etc.

Thanks

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Xmarks should work with a private server over WebDAV. You can register for a box.net account and get WebDAV access at box.net/dav. Of course, it is a short term solution. If nice folks at Xmarks decide to open source the code, this could work out be a long term solution.

I have been quite happy with Delicious and have used it for many years. Depending on how you use bookmarks, I would certainly suggest checking it out. I manage a large set of bookmarks between Delicious, StumbleUpon, Firefox's bookmarks, and Xmarks, and I am very pleased with the workflow of importing and tagging links in Delicious.

It's often overlooked, but remember that than even though Delicious is "social" bookmarking, you can set all your links to private. I use a combination of both public and private, but I also really value Delicious for discovering new content.

What is the problem with Chrome bookmark sync?

For Firefox alone you can use Firefox Sync (previously Weave), it has worked great for me so far. [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10868/]

I don't know of any other usable cross-browser sync tools than xmarks.

> What is the problem with Chrome bookmark sync?

Well... http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Docs/thread?tid...

Well it freezes my Chrome (Mac OS X) and I have to forcequit.

On Windows, I've had issues like overwritten or deleted bookmarks among other things ..

Frankly, it's a big PITA and this isn't limited to just 1 version of chrome

It's not cross-browser.

It looks like Xmarks may stay alive: http://blog.xmarks.com/?p=1988

Has anyone used Diigo?

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