Furl: A web page filing cabinet

January 26, 2004 5:51 AM

Furl is an elegant application that acts as your web filing cabinet. Store, rate and categorize web clippings with the click of a bookmarklet. Once collected, search, share or publish your links via email or RSS. (via Inter-Alia.)
posted by ajr (12 comments total)

See also: Queue.
posted by profwhat at 5:57 AM on January 26, 2004

I used to use a service like this one but it went bust after about a year. And there went an awful lot of carefully collected links. Dunno that I want to risk repeating that experience.
posted by alumshubby at 6:08 AM on January 26, 2004

Also check out del.icio.us. Kind of a collaborative bookmark project.
posted by brownpau at 6:18 AM on January 26, 2004

Dunno that I want to risk repeating that experience.

If you can publish as rss, you won't lose your links if the service fails.
posted by jpoulos at 6:25 AM on January 26, 2004

I'm ignorant of rss, but I'll try to educate myself.
posted by alumshubby at 6:56 AM on January 26, 2004

Must your links be public?
posted by the fire you left me at 7:37 AM on January 26, 2004

Blatant self link: FarFetch is the same sort of thing, but bookmarks are private, and you don't have to install anything, you just have to drag a bookmarklet to your toolbar (or not).
posted by bshort at 7:52 AM on January 26, 2004

whats wrong with CTRL+D?
posted by Satapher at 9:48 AM on January 26, 2004

Is there anything like Furl that you can run on your own server?
posted by tranquileye at 11:17 AM on January 26, 2004

whats wrong with CTRL+D?

Probably nothing, as long as you only use one computer and have no interest in sharing your bookmarks.
posted by 327.ca at 11:53 AM on January 26, 2004

B. is an awesome app if you have your own server to run it on.
posted by bshort at 1:02 PM on January 26, 2004

Before you start dumping all your favorite links and their associated content into Furl, you might want to read the Terms of Service and their Privacy Policy.

Actually, I'll save you the step. Both are "Coming soon!"

(Insert dire scenarios re. your information here.)
posted by msippey at 2:45 PM on January 26, 2004