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rjbull:
I'll send an e-mail to myself, or someone I think would be interested in the site, containing a link and a short description along with some keywords (tags, basically) to make it easy to search for--years later from right within my Gmail.
-Deozaan (June 16, 2008, 11:58 PM)
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That's a good idea.  I often keep a few notes in MemPad, even if nowhere else.  Despite Google, it seems to me worthwhile to keep original links somewhere, because Web pages can disappear.  If you have their original location, you have more chance of recovering them from the Wayback Machine.

Jimdoria:
I find for the sort of things I often bookmark, Google isn't all that useful.

First of all, to Google something I've got to remember what it is first. There's no reminder functionality which bookmarks provide.

Second, try googling "windows xp tips". You get thousands of hits. Which one is that particular tips site I saw a few months ago that had that list of obscure RUNDLL32 functions? Bookmarks to the rescue!

Curt:
- good points, Jimdoria.

I like the bookmark manager in Firefox 2 combined with:

- 2 Pane Bookmarks 0.4.2008052701
   {FD61379B-066A-4afc-89DE-89FB24D907C2}
   http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/bookmarks2pane/
   Firefox 1.5 - 3.0.*
   shows the Bookmarks sidebar panel with 2 pane style like 0pera.

 and

- Locate in Bookmark Folders 0.2.5
   {06652CB6-16D0-4e7a-BF2D-E0037A87E57A}
   http://alex.muntean.name/
   Firefox 1.0 - 2.0.0.*
   Locates a bookmark in Bookmarks Manager's folders tree or in the Bookmarks Sidebar, complementing the Bookmark Search feature of Firefox.


But maybe the page doesn't even need to be bookmarked, so I also use:

- Read it Later 0.80
   [email protected]
   http://www.ideashower.com/ideas/active/read-it-later/
   Firefox 1.5 - 2.*
   Save pages to read later, then maybe bookmark.


If it is just a short article or a few quotes, I will mark the lines, and up will pop the context menu, and I will copy to file. This is surprisingly quick, if you use HyperWords:
- Hyperwords 4.0
   {9A752782-D706-479b-98F8-3F66BF921692}
   http://www.hyperwords.net
   Firefox 1.5 - 3.0.*
   Makes every word on the web interactive.

Anyway, the most visited pages all becomes my homepages:

- Speed Dial 0.7.1
   {64161300-e22b-11db-8314-0800200c9a66}
   http://speeddial.uworks.net/
   Firefox 2.0 - 3.0.*
   Direct access to your most visited websites

MrCrispy:
I find for the sort of things I often bookmark, Google isn't all that useful.

First of all, to Google something I've got to remember what it is first. There's no reminder functionality which bookmarks provide.

Second, try googling "windows xp tips". You get thousands of hits. Which one is that particular tips site I saw a few months ago that had that list of obscure RUNDLL32 functions? Bookmarks to the rescue!
-Jimdoria (June 19, 2008, 02:46 PM)
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I know what you mean, but I couldn't help trying out your example.

The google query - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=BNo&q=windows+xp+tips+RUNDLL32+functions&btnG=Search&aq=f
5th result on page - http://winxpinfo.com/view/Tips_Trick/Windows_Tips/Rundll32_Commands_in_Windows_XP/ :)

Don't know if that page has the kind of info you're looking for, but google knows all!

Curt:
The hardest part of using Google is to create just the right search... and I very often fail to do so! So: Hurrah for bookmarks! But of course: To "let go of >some< bookmarks" I quite often email site addresses (to myself) in order to remember to study their content. Right-click > Send Mail > Send. This is almost as fast as bookmarking, but I am a lot more certain that I actually will re-visit the page, this way!

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