One of the things I often find myself regretting are all those bookmarks I have lost over the years. I’ll recall some bit of information and want to clarify the hazy details. Because I work from multiple computers in multiple locations, I’m usually not at the computer where the site I have in mind is bookmarked. Or the memory is four years old, and the bookmark has been lost due to a hard drive crash, or some other electronic catastrophe. I end up wasting minutes or sometimes even hours searching the Internet for my lost memory.
No longer. I’ve recently begun using Foxmarks. The company tagline is "the bookmark synchronizer" but if I were in charge of marketing, I’d make the tagline "the life preserver for all your links." Foxmarks is one of those tools you probably won’t realize the value of until you’ve had it a few months or years.
It not only saves links you might want to refer to at some point in the nebulous future, it automatically synchronizes them between browsers you regularly use. What a wonderful tool! Naturally, the product doesn’t work in Internet Explorer, so if you haven’t switched to Firefox yet, you now have another compelling reason to do so.