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I am a bookmark heavy user. I have paid evernote account (7212 bookmark) and google bookmark (37852 bookmark) right now.

Here is my story. I used to have delicious account long ago (close to 30000). Because Yahoo shut it down, I have to move. I used a ruby script to auto submit to google bookmark. It took me three days. After that I thought everything will be fine. However, I define tagging a lot, google bookmark can't do heavy sorting (it always crash my browser). Then when I found evernote, I like the way they have app for iPad and Android phone. However, right now they also have tagging sorting problem. Currently I have 7212 bookmark in Evernote, 2341 tags. You can imagine the browser basically freeze to wait for the loading. Tagging/hashtag is very important to me. I rarely use google to do research because I always look back to my tag first.

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Thanks! Tags could be nice addition to search or act as a filter. I've always though that tags are hard for grouping things, since you can end up more groups than you have items.

Right now we store the page content so you can do a full text search on title, notes and the content.

The reason I love to use tag is...I can't do "search" for old webpage. Why? It's because I can't remember what sentence or keyword I have to use.

However, if I use tag to group, after a while I still can filter my search by that based on the memory that I might "define what tag I might input for it long ago". For example, my tag will look like "WebDesign-Design-Layout", "Web-Dev-tips", " Web-framework-javascript" "Networking-monitoring-tool" etc. From BIG-To-Narrow. So once the tag start sorting, I could still know which group I will look into.

Human's memory is limited. However, human can remember a paper/article's attribute/catalog which is been defined long ago. I use bookmarking service for so long. My experience is...in the end if people have a huge bookmark contents just like me, filter/tag/hashtag is way faster than search. If people don't define tag, they will just use google search for Webpage content, no need to use bookmarking service.

Knowing how to do the tagging and bookmarking is the key, after that, google search is no need.

One more thing. Let's define kippt.com as an example.

I might bookmark it and tag it as "Web-App-Bookmarking". So after a while if I want to do a comparison on bookmarking service, I can just pull this tag, I can see a list on every bookmarking service. However, if I just do the keyword search, and that I might already forgot "kippt", I will end up probe so many bookmarking related articles which might contain other stuff.

Tagging is just like filtering. It can direct narrow down search list. Tag complexity and various could lead to more accurate contents and its potentially others.

I used a ruby script to auto submit to google bookmark. It took me three days.

Google bookmarks has always been able to import from Delicious. It still works even after the crappy Avos rewrite.

They just did that function after delicious been acquisition. I can guarantee you have no clue on using Google bookmark. When I used bookmarking service, there is no google bookmark exist yet.

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