Synchronised work and home bookmarks
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Synchronised work and home bookmarks ✓
This should be really easy, but I've procrastinated over it for ages. For some reason I had trouble getting firefox sync to work, so I decided to try Opera.
Having several major browsers sharing market share seems to be really helpful for interoperability, switching was really easy, and everything works much the same, but slightly snappier.
There's little things that bug me though -- you can't middle click to open a menu item from the bookmarks toolbar, or drag it onto a text box, or delete it?
I know sync should be a small thing, but I think it's actually really helpful, because if I'm obsessive about putting "to read later" things onto a bookmark menu, it's LESS work because then I don't carry them around in my head.
I've not actually tried it from the other computer yet. So far it seems to merge the bookmarks reasonably sensibly, coping with deletions as well as additions, and syncing promptly without losing a bunch of changes each time, but I'll see if it lasts.
This should be really easy, but I've procrastinated over it for ages. For some reason I had trouble getting firefox sync to work, so I decided to try Opera.
Having several major browsers sharing market share seems to be really helpful for interoperability, switching was really easy, and everything works much the same, but slightly snappier.
There's little things that bug me though -- you can't middle click to open a menu item from the bookmarks toolbar, or drag it onto a text box, or delete it?
I know sync should be a small thing, but I think it's actually really helpful, because if I'm obsessive about putting "to read later" things onto a bookmark menu, it's LESS work because then I don't carry them around in my head.
I've not actually tried it from the other computer yet. So far it seems to merge the bookmarks reasonably sensibly, coping with deletions as well as additions, and syncing promptly without losing a bunch of changes each time, but I'll see if it lasts.
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Date: 2012-09-01 03:14 pm (UTC)For reading things later I recommend Pocket:
http://getpocket.com/
which used to be called ReadItLater, and is awesome.
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Date: 2012-09-01 03:53 pm (UTC)Ooh, yes, that looks good, thanks.
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Date: 2012-09-06 11:18 am (UTC)What do you expect to happen?
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Date: 2012-09-06 12:34 pm (UTC)And all the right click, delete, middle click, drag to another folder, etc, work how you'd expect in the panel, but it a little less convenient for accessing commonly-used menus because it behaves like a tree view, not a menu, so the links don't all go back to "closed" after you click on one.
Conversely, the bookmarks toolbar seems to just be shortcuts to the real bookmarks: if I turn on the toolbar, middle click works on a link on the toolbar, but if there's a folder, not on any of the items in a folder.
Most probably I'm missing an obvious setting, or if I change my arrangement slightly (access common links on the toolbar, others from the panel) it would be equally easy. I'm basically used to it already. But it seemed odd when I first used it.