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TagSifter Slices and Dices Your Bookmarks by Tag
Posted by Gina Trapani at 5:00 AM on August 21, 2008
All platforms with Firefox: If you like Delicious' ability to filter bookmarks by multiple tags (like "programming" and "tutorial"), you'll love the TagSifter extension for Firefox. Now that Firefox 3 supports bookmark tagging—and you've got keywords assigned to all your favourite URLs—TagSifter can help you navigate, search, and drill down to exactly the link you're looking for. Like Delicious, TagSifter adds related tag suggestions, and offers advanced search operators that can find exactly the bookmark you're looking for. For example, the expression:
muffins - (cookies + brownies) ?donuts
TagSifter adds a sidebar for browsing your tagged bookmarks (shown right) as well as a drop-down menu from Firefox's toolbar (shown top). If you're not already using Firefox 3's tagging capabilities, TagSifter's import wizard will convert your current bookmark folders into tags for you. (The import wizard takes subfolders into account, too—so if you've filed Lifehacker under blogs > life hacks folders, TagSifter will tag the URL both "blogs" and "life hacks."
TagSifter is a free download for all platforms running Firefox 3.
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jtimberman
Posted 5:53 AM 21/8/08
Or, you know. You could just use the delicious Firefox extension.
jtimberman
ChaoticMind
Posted 6:13 AM 21/8/08
Great add-on, I will actually be able to visit the sites i bookmark (and tag) now.
ChaoticMind
Nuclear Moose
Posted 7:07 AM 21/8/08
@jtimberman: What if you aren't a user of Deli.cio.us? Is their extension useful for non-delicious types?
Nuclear Moose
proud_blackfoot
Posted 10:02 AM 21/8/08
Maybe there's more to TagSifter than I realize, but I just use FF3's native bookmark tagging. It's pretty straight forward and convenient 2 search from the address field. Why bog down FF3 with yet another extension? Would b kool for FF2 though.
proud_blackfoot
brentrowan
Posted 10:39 AM 21/8/08
Tried it, liked it. Noticed a few weeks later that I wasn't using it. Uninstalled it. The Awesome Bar really is pretty awesome; delicious Bookmarks for Firefox does the rest of what I need.
brentrowan
KTMitch
Posted 11:10 AM 21/8/08
I used this extension back with Firefox 2 (when it was originally called Bookmark Tags). But I found that FF3's AwesomeBar negated any need for TagSifter. Too bad; I really enjoyed this extension with FF2.
KTMitch