As you can imagine, someone like myself who wastes spends countless hours overloading educating oneself with the myriad of information and websites across the internet bookmarks quite a few things. On average, in a week, I’d estimate if I had already figured out bookmark organization completely, I’d bookmark between 10 and 30 things a week. That’s approximately 1 to 4 things a day - and that’s based on a conservative guess. I recently had one of my friends ask me, “How do you handle the volume of bookmarks that can accumulate over time?” and simply put, I responded, “I don’t…yet.” Organizing bookmarks (400 uncatagorized prior to this week’s exercise) is one of those things like organizing your music library - when you’ve got 30,000+ songs to tag and sort or like another problem I have; 400+ DVD’s I want to catalog into Libra (Free) or Collectorz.com’s Movie Collector (NOT Free) - it’s a daunting task… Finally, I decided to at least tackle one of my organizational problems - bookmarks!
So I have a challenge I’ve been dealing with for some years now and I’ve yet to decide on the most cost/time-efficient solution. As you’re probably aware, there are a number of options out there. From an old school rolodex to a new school card scanner, there’s an option for you if you want lo-tech or hi-tech.
Personally, I don’t want to spend $250 on a good card scanner (referenced below) and at the same time - I won’t deal with piles of rubber-banded cards around with post-it notes on them. The post-its act as a sort of rudimentary tagging system. Tagging is something I cry for every night after scouring through business cards. The ability to easily tag business cards with certain info (such as notes from the discussion and where I met them) would make life tremendously easier. I really wish there was a card management solution which integrated tagging to the digitizing method. I’m sure many others have this desire as well, especially anyone who spends time in sales or networking. Moving on though, let’s take a look at just a few of the existing options out there.
Kolgoth