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Unless you just need to know what Trump said yesterday or what BeyoncÃ© did last week, digging up a specific Web page you came across two years ago is by no means guaranteed. I have found that contrary to what seems to be received wisdom, search engines are not a substitute for bookmarks. Even taking into account tags and descriptions, a stack of bookmarks is about the simplest thing in the world, technically speaking. I image all my disks, but boomarks are among the few files I also backup separately, just in order to be sure.Īlso, there’s no good reason why a bookmarks database would not be exportable to any number of standard formats. If I take the trouble to organise my bookmarks (by writing descriptions, for instance), I need to know that this work will not get lost if I have to change browsers, or if I need to drop a bookmarks manager for something else (a browser perhaps, or even another bookmarks manager, although they are rather thin on the ground these days).Įxport is also needed for (extra, specific) backup. So I need to know that my bookmarks database will be interoperable with just anything that might come by in the future. I have changed browsers several times in the past, because they had evolved and were not suited to the task anymore. Not less.īecause I have a huge amount of research invested in those bookmarks. Taking the trouble to use a bookmark manager means you want to do more than what your browser permits.

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If, however, you’re a software developer, and you address people who care enough about bookmarks to install a bookmark manager, then obviously importing and exporting, in multiple formats, is the first thing they’ll be asking for. Showing where your secrets are is hardly the cleverest thing to do.

Besides, encrypting bookmarks ? Why ? Because of porn, and you don’t want your parents (or wife) to peek into your computer ? If that is the case, well, obfuscation is a much better strategy, and you should be encrypting across the board. Now, that’s a totally un-needed feature ! If you want to password-protect your data, there are a thousand free solutions around, and anyway you’re much better off encrypting a whole folder, volume or disk protecting data one application at a time just does not make sense.

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I have just read that password protection has been added to that program. Not being able to export bookmarks is obviously a deal-breaker.

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