not-very-social bookmarking

[ursula]

I want to share my work bookmarks (and only my work bookmarks) across a couple of computers. Which service should I be using? I'd be happy with a website or some sort of Firefox extension, but I'm not sure I want to dig through all the options on my own.

Comments

[thistleingrey]

If you use more than one browser, or don't mind using &c., one possibility is to stick all the work ones on Chrome and the others on Firefox (or whatever). (Witness my deep ambivalence, heh.) The current versions of both Firefox and Chrome have login support that enables bookmark synchronization on multiple machines--no extension needed.

Otherwise, Pinboard is solid, IMO.

[lqc]

If you're already using Firefox consistently or can use it on the machines in question, it has a built-in Sync function that will do the trick for you with a little setup work. More details available. http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/share-bookmarks-tabs-and-more-your-other-computers?redirectlocale=en-US&as=u&redirectslug=How+to+sync+Firefox+settings+between+computers

[ursula]

But note thistleingrey's caveat, above: I don't want to share all of my bookmarks to my work computer, just the ones in a specific set of folders.

[irilyth]

Mm, so it's not that you've got a set of work computers that you want to share between, and then separately a non-work computer that you don't want to share anything with? The native Firefox synch thing may not work so well in that case.

Can you play games with Firefox profiles? I know it's possible to have more than one profile, so you could potentially put your work bookmarks into a work profile, and then synch that with other work computers. It might make them somewhat harder to use from your non-work computer, but maybe not impossible. (If synch is in fact per-profile, which it might not be, not sure.)

[ursula]

Right, I've got a personal laptop and a work desktop, and I use my laptop to work from home/from a conference often enough that the lack of syncing is starting to annoy me.

My guess is that using Chrome for work stuff would be easier than remembering which profile to sign into, especially since I already have to use Chrome with Sage (it plays better with certain bits of Java, for reasons that are not entirely clear to me). I think Pinboard is what I was envisioning. Does anyone actually use Google Bookmarks?