Smub: Personal, Memorable Bookmarks
Posted by janet in Bookmark, Personalized Smubs, Smub on November 24th, 2008
Most people ‘get’ the notion of grabbing a URL and renaming it (which is the new aha! we’re able to provide in the realm of shrinking links) to a personally memorable link. The simultaneous “save” (to a personal bookmark page) is a bonus - especially for those of us who can’t always remember exactly what we’ve named or where we’ve stored something.
When you register for a Smub account, you’re automatically saving (or bookmarking) your Smubs in a private area on Smub’s server. That gives you several cool advantages:
- You can gain access to your Smubs from any browser. So when you’re visiting mom and dad for Thanksgiving, you can log in from the ancient 386 that’s humming under the desk, keeping your dad’s legs toasty as he works around the 65 pound monitor (look! an old CRT!) on top of his desk. (That is, if the operating system supports Firefox 2 or 3, and/or IE 6,7 or 8.)
- It’s a private bookmark page, so you can save not only public Smubs, but you can store your personal pages online (for access from mom and dad’s, or anywhere you’re connected to a browser) - I have a “bank” and plenty of email account/Baseline account Smubs already. What’s great about that is that I can truly be bookmark free on my iPhone (in case I lose it) and still have access to my personal pages when I’m on the road.
- You can sort your Smubs by tag, by date, or alphabetically, so it’s easy to find a needle in a haystack even when you become a prolific “Smubber.” (Believe me, I’ve come to appreciate that capability for sure.)
As much as I can get lost in the joy of personalizing and sharing links, and sharing Smubs through the toolbar, I’ve found great solace in relying on Smub to save and sort my links, too.
And in helping me be truly, truly mobile, yet connected.
Bookmarked Smubs are easily searched, sorted
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