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    Old 08-14-2012, 09:08 AM
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    It was getting hard to find things in my lists of saved sites. If there is such a thing as a website collector/hoarder, I guess I qualify. My sewing, quilting, blogs, and garden categories had over a hundred names in each.

    I decided to do some weeding out, and was dismayed to discover that some of the sites were no longer there. The information, tutorials, and photos that I thought I could rely upon for future use were gone. I am so bummed out!


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    Old 08-14-2012, 11:51 AM
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    That happened to me too. DARN!
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    Old 08-14-2012, 01:26 PM
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    I lost a lot of things on my home laptop. It got a trojan and It had to be returned to factory specs. Of course, I can't remember them.
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    Old 08-14-2012, 01:47 PM
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    Originally Posted by MattieMae
    It was getting hard to find things in my lists of saved sites. If there is such a thing as a website collector/hoarder, I guess I qualify. My sewing, quilting, blogs, and garden categories had over a hundred names in each.

    I decided to do some weeding out, and was dismayed to discover that some of the sites were no longer there. The information, tutorials, and photos that I thought I could rely upon for future use were gone. I am so bummed out!


    This is why I love Pinterest. It doesn't guarantee that links won't be broken at some point but the page image will remain the same and you can make notes so that you at least have some idea of what you were saving.
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    Old 08-15-2012, 03:47 AM
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    Time for me to also clean out bookmarks, I don't really use them anyway. If I want to save something good I make if a PDF or save a copy of it in word for future use.
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    Old 08-15-2012, 07:45 AM
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    It's good to clean out bookmarks, and I, too, have been dismayed to find some links dead. But then I figure there are so many more cool links yet to find, it will all even out in the end!
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    Old 08-15-2012, 09:10 AM
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    I found a cool way to deal with bookmarks...I set up a Word document and I place all bookmarks in the doc. When it reaches 8 pages, I start another doc and save the first. After 3 successive saves, I go back to doc 1 and run through all the links, saving the good ones, deleting the so/so. Takes very little space and time to do this.
    Meanwhile, my Microsoft Office came with an application called One Note... I LOVE THIS PROGRAM. You can make tabs and copy projects on each page of the tab. This is for a project that I really dont want to lose. Take a look at it over at the Microsoft site. It's really cool.
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    Old 08-15-2012, 12:05 PM
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    I have a mac and there is a free program like One Note for macs. Its called Growly Notes.

    How else do you use your One Notes? I am interested.

    Originally Posted by leighway
    I found a cool way to deal with bookmarks...I set up a Word document and I place all bookmarks in the doc. When it reaches 8 pages, I start another doc and save the first. After 3 successive saves, I go back to doc 1 and run through all the links, saving the good ones, deleting the so/so. Takes very little space and time to do this.
    Meanwhile, my Microsoft Office came with an application called One Note... I LOVE THIS PROGRAM. You can make tabs and copy projects on each page of the tab. This is for a project that I really dont want to lose. Take a look at it over at the Microsoft site. It's really cool.
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    Old 08-15-2012, 03:59 PM
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    There is a free web site organizer on www.portaportal.com The free one does have ads at the bottom, but I just ignore them. The hardest part is deciding on your categories. I have created more for quilting because the lists became so long. It is easy to use, and they have never given out any info.
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    Old 08-16-2012, 04:30 AM
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    Pinterest!!!!!!!
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