One of the most common practices in a browser is saving bookmarks and with so much information floating around the web, saving can get out of hand quickly. One way to organize and store your bookmarks in one place is Marklet, a cloud based app for storing all your favorites.

Modern Bookmarking

One of the great advantages of cloud computing is that users can access the information saved to the cloud from anywhere at anytime and from any device. That pure constant is what makes Marklet such an attractive way to save and store bookmarks

Through Marklet, users can save favorites much as they would through a browser then access those bookmarks from a mobile device, work computer or wherever they have access to the web. Marklet works through any browser which means it’s accessible from any phone and doesn’t require an app to use.

How It Works

Marklet has several options for saving favorites. Since most of us already have bookmarks saved in browsers, an import feature is available to quickly upload bookmarks from all major browsers. Additionally, Marklet allows for upload of bookmarks from other cloud services such as Delicious.

To make saving favorites quicker, Marklet offers extensions for Chrome, Firefox and Safari browsers. The browser extension adds a quick add button to the browser so users can simply click the button to add a favorite to their marklet dashboard. Users of other browsers will need to login to Marklet, then save the favorite.

Those who like to organize their bookmarks will find that Marklet is quite convenient with its categories and drag and drop reordering system.

Dashboard Interface

We’re genuinely pleased with the interface. The soft colors make viewing the page easy on the eyes and the proportions for items are appropriately scaled. The interface can be customized to have a varying number of popular favorites, displayed with color logo. The larger blocked marklets are convenient for keeping frequently visited websites a single click away.

The remaining Dashboard information revolves around categories and the favorites associated with them. For example, a Shopping category may have Amazon, Newegg, Target and others. Categories can be minimized to save screen real estate and new categories are created with a quick click of a button.

One very notable Dashboard feature involves video. Marklets of video favorites play directing from the Dashboard so that users never have to leave their Marklet page. The video integration means a lot less clicking around for users and the dimmed background effect during playback makes viewing enjoyable.

Limitations

Marklet has just about everything a user needs to move from traditional browser bookmarks to cloud marklets. However, every service has its limitations and Marklet is no different. Marklet does allow importing of bookmarks, but is too limited for anyone who already has an established library containing 1000’s of organized favorites. However, that amount of favorites is not the norm which means most users shouldn’t have a problem.

The other noticeable limitation is the omission of tags. Again, this goes to sorting and searching a large database of favorites. Without tags to find favorites it may be difficult using Marklet as the only bookmarking service.

Summary

Marklet is visually appealing, free, polished and provided without advertisements of any kind. The interface is fast and responsive and Marklet continues to offer convenient ways to bookmark with their service as well as improve on their platform.

We’ve already touched on what we’d like to see from Marklet which includes a greater import limit if not abolish the limit entirely as well as a tagging option to make bookmark retrieval easier. Another feature that could be useful is the option to rearrange the dashboard to make it more personal for users. The interface is adequate as it is, but the ability to customize the dashboard could make Marklet more appealing to a larger audience.  We’d also like to see utilization of sub-folders or sub-categories to organize favorites to an even greater extent.

Finally, Marklet has all the right base parts in place to be a top notch cloud bookmarking service. The service, which was launched in April 2012, doesn’t have limitations severe enough to turn users away and the service continues to mature to meet users needs. We recommend giving Marklet a test drive to see if it’s the cloud bookmarking service for you.

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Ever try to find a bookmark you made a week ago, only to realize there are too many to sort through? Even if you haven’t, you probably desire a more organized purposeful way to save online information. Kippt is to information what Pinterest is to images.

Service

Think of Kippt as a knowledge saving site. Many users share photos and images across Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram and other photo-sharing sites. But where can users store useful information that may not necessarily have an image associated with it? Bookmarks work, but are often disorganized and rarely sorted by users. In steps Kippt.

Kippt helps users collect important information and store them in lists or categories in the same way Pinboards are used on Pinterest. Users come across useful information and add it to their Kippt list. For example, a list may contain content about different cloud storage services as a way to reference and compare them.

Additional Features

Kippt offers an extension for Chrome, Firefox and Opera browsers to make sorting and saving links simpler. The Collaboration feature is a way for users to combine their interests and saved links into a single list which makes Kippt a bit social as well.

Kippt is very much like a bookmarking service, but is more about storing knowledge and important information. The current interface is very clean and extremely heavy on the white side. Professionals will likely adopt Kippt easily as it has a Google type feel to its simplicity.

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It seems like every other week we’re reviewing a cloud bookmark manager these days. The fact is though, that choosing one is a big decision. Any user who entrusts their bookmarks to a cloud service has to feel comfortable with it because they’ll be accessing that website everyday. This time around we’re looking at Wonderpage, a cloud bookmarking service that appeals more to your visual side.

Wonderpage has many features we expect from a cloud service seeking to store favorites. An import function from browsers and Delicious, user input keywords and descriptions, folders for organization and privacy settings at both account level and bookmark level. Wonderpage helps users along by automatically generating keywords for new bookmarks which furthers the process along for anyone who doesn’t have time to tag every bookmark and micromanage their favorites.

The big feature of Wonderpage is its visual appeal. Wonderpage uses thumbnail images of URLs to visually identify bookmarks inside user accounts. There are 6 different sizing options for the thumbnails along with a sidebar menu to quickly navigate between favorites. Users who are more visually wired will find Wonderpage to be an ideal option for cloud bookmarking.

Wonderpage also has social features which include their own built-in friend and follower interaction. Instead of merely sharing a link through another service, Wonderpage makes it possible to share an entire collection of bookmarks. The creators of Wonderpage seek to create a new homepage for users with it’s visual design and need of access to bookmarks. Whether they succeed at that is up for debate, but you can’t dismiss the actual service. Wonderpage is fantastic at delivering a eye-catching, easy to interact with cloud service that users will feel comfortable entrusting their bookmarks to.

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Bookmarks are something of an afterthought these days. Users bookmark sites at will and through the endless amount of sharing sites, always have a point of reference for recent finds. It’s no surprise then, that so many bookmark managing cloud solutions have developed. Grazely is one of those solutions with a couple distinct features.

Grazely offers expected features that any bookmark manager should have. A bookmarklet for convenience and direct link saving, tagging, search and access from all web enabled devices. Another, not always common, feature that we insist on from cloud bookmark managers is easy import/export functionality. Grazely imports bookmarks from browsers through .html files and can import Delicious bookmark files. Exporting from Grazely is simple and a highly desirable feature for many.

Grazely stands apart with their security measures for accounts. Accounts can store both public and private bookmarks to keep leisure and professional users happy. Private links aren’t a necessity for everyone, but some professionals need that extra layer of privacy which makes Grazely an ideal option. Through the use of an encryption key, Grazely adds additional security to an otherwise standard security setup used by many other websites. Those familiar with mobile device gesture locks will understand the key usage more than others.

Finally, through the use of groups, Grazely bookmarks can be shared and organized to better coordinate ideas and conspire with others. Grazely is a free service and, as of June 2012 in an invite only status so you’ll need to request an invite.

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As the web grows, our bookmarks and favorites grow with it. The enormity of bookmarks can become overwhelming, not just in volume but in managing them as well. Pistashio is a sort of online bookmarking site that helps you manage and organize your favorites while saving them in the cloud.

The web capturing service is slightly different than traditional online bookmarking services. Pistashio encourages organization right from the get go by probing users for additional details about their bookmark or Stash as they call them. Additional details can be anything and is a great way to quickly distinguish one item from another.

As users stash their favorites, Pistashio automatically saves the URL along with any additional details and location if pertinent. From there, stashes are sorted into 1 of 5 categories – Eat & Drink, Watch, Read, Listen and See & Do. Each category can be drilled down further for more precise saving. For instance, stashing a new restaurant website would most likely be filed under Eat & Drink and then under a Restaurants subcategory. Beyond standard stashing, Pistashio offers a Remind me Later feature and options to share your stashes socially through Twitter or Facebook. In our restaurant example, Pistashio could remind you when 2-for-1 specials are and tweet the information out to your followers.

Users can stash anything they find on the web and Pistashio provides a couple easy ways to do it. For Google Chrome users a browser extension is available or bookmarklet for all other browsers. We’d like to see an import feature on the list for future improvements, but otherwise this is a nice option to get your bookmarks and yourself organized.

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For many of us, particularly younger generations, the web is the world. Almost everything we love can be found online. We communicate with friends and family, we share outrageous photos and funny videos, we shop and conduct business, even create art and music online. All of those things make our lives better in one way or another, but one pitfall of having all that knowledge and convenience at our fingertips is that we become complacent in our retention. Clipix successfully makes remembering all the internet’s wonders easier.

To make it simple, think of Clipix as an online bookmarking site. You store relevant websites, photos, videos and whatnot by using a Clip button. Similar in style to clicking a favorite button on your web browser, the Clip button saves your “clips” to your Clipix account. The great advantage of using the Clipix method is that all your clips are accessible on all devices without the inconvenience of importing and exporting. Clip something from your home PC and view it later on your tablet at work, it’s that simple.

Clipix is intended to save things from the web and does so well, but there’s another plus to this service. Unintentional organization. The best way to take advantage of Clipix is to organize clips into Clipboards. Clipboards make sorting gifts or travel deals timely. If someone has a birthday coming up, you can create a Clipboard of Mom’s Birthday Ideas 2012, making whatever you clip pertinent and up to date. There are many more ideas for Clipboards but you get the drift. In addition, Clips can be shared with others. So that ‘Mom’s Birthday’ Clipboard can now be viewed by all siblings.

Clipix seems to understand that not everyone wants to share everything they find online. That’s fantastic news! Clipix has the option of public or private so that if you want to use the service as your own personal bookmark saver, then so be it. While others who want to share, share, share can do so too. Clipix is very similar to Pinterest but with private Clipboards, which means that you’ll be starting from scratch if your intent is to move all your bookmarks into their service. If you’ve been searching for a way to make the transition from traditional bookmarking to cloud favorites, then Clipix is worth a look.

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