Organize Your Browser Bookmarks With Booky.io
Organizing your browser’s many bookmarks is a never-ending struggle. Trust me, I understand pain; no matter how many extensions I install or how many times I swear, I will never let my crowded bookmark toolbar go to this state, it always happens. One day I will find out.
Until then, I came across one neat little website that can help you deal with your browser clutter : Booky.io . To get started, simply create a free account, export your current browser bookmarks as a simple HTML file, and import them into your site. (No, there is no way to automatically sync your bookmarks through a browser extension, but I hope this feature arrives sooner rather than later.)
When you import your bookmarks, Booky.io takes into account the folder structure you (hopefully) already use to organize your bookmarks. They become “categories” on the site, which you can move around your dashboard as you see fit. (Yes, you can even have multiple dashboards if you want separate categories for work and not work.)
One important detail: the import doesn’t seem to work for subfolders or subfolders of bookmarks that might be inside the main folders. In this case, you will need to import them separately.
With booky.io, you can drag and drop bookmarks within or between categories, although the website really lacks a batch move feature that would make it easier to organize a sprawling list of sites, and an alphabet feature to make it easier to sort bookmarks in your categories. However, you can color-code your categories if it helps you find specific bookmark classifications.
I think the best way to use booky.io is to set it up as your browser’s homepage (or a bookmark or pinned tab that you can easily access). And I would probably only keep bookmarks in a service that I always want to access at some point – my repeat customers , so to speak, not necessarily the site I just stumbled upon that I want to save and read later … You can import a partial list of major sites using the booky.io bookmarklet or a Chrome extension if you don’t want to import all of your browser’s bookmarks at once.
While it is unclear when the next iteration of booky.io will come out or what new features it might have, the developers announced a few months ago that they are working on a new version of the service.
I can’t wait to see what’s in store for us; we hope that “syncing bookmarks via extensions” is at the top of the list.