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Organize your IE7 Favorites
by Lisa Hoover Jan 15th 2008 at 3:00PM
Recently, we told you about some ways to organize and manage your Firefox bookmarks, and one of our readers asked for similar suggestions to use with Internet Explorer. Since we want Michael and our other IE-using friends to loved too, we put together a few ideas for you.Favorites Box lets you add extra attributes to your bookmarks to make them easier to find and organize. Add comments, categories, tags, or login information or even set up a reminders. This one's free to try, but sets you back $19.95 if you want to keep it.
Favorites Finder is a free extension that adds keyword functionality to your bookmarked sites so you can access them in just a couple of keystrokes. Just type a few letters of the site you're looking for and Favorites Finder will search your bookmarks and find all the matches, including whatever's in your folders.
Power Favorites is a slick little extension that merges bookmarks from IE, Opera, and Firefox, then syncs them across multiples computers. You can annotate each bookmark with notes and tags, then view them by tag list or tag clouds. (Tag clouds? Are you listening, Foxmarks?) Power Favorites has a 30-day free trial, then it's $19.95.
When you finally decide to winnow down that super-long list of Favorites you've accumulated over the past two years, it's a pain to have to check each bookmark to make sure the site still exists. Use the free tool Favorites Inspector instead. It will plow through your whole list for you and alert you to any "404 error" pages so you can delete those Favorites instead of filing them.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Daniel said 5:06PM on 1-15-2008
This one is an "old timer" but it does the job quite well!
http://www.dzsoft.com/favorites-search.html
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Dr. Chuck said 6:51PM on 1-15-2008
I use a freeware alternative to Favorites Inspector, AM-Deadlink:
http://aignes.com/deadlink.htm
Not only does it check for dead links, it can set the favorite icon for the active links.
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markus9128 said 8:54PM on 1-15-2008
Hi :)
I'm sorry but Favorites Finder do not work with IE7. ;)
Thats sad becuse its the only freeware out of the three... :(
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IsNoGood said 12:32AM on 1-16-2008
Might just be me, however one thing that I'm looking for is a tool that will allow me to open the 10 plus websites that I use in one click, anybody know how ?
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IsNoGood said 12:33AM on 1-16-2008
Cool I needed that
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Lisa Hoover said 8:03AM on 1-16-2008
I think the instructions here:
http://www.ie-vista.com/tabs_groups.html
are what you're looking for.
Lisa
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michael said 7:19PM on 1-19-2008
Thanks guys! You really do care!
I'll give them all a try.
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