Linkable—The Best Way to Share and Organize Links?
In the past year, I've created numerous accounts that all promise to do the same thing: keep track of my bookmarks. Delicious, Digg, Stumble Upon, you name it - I've signed up for it. However, I have not kept up with any of these, and none have come close to satisfying my desire for something simple, visual, and efficient in keeping track of all the cool new tools and websites that come my way. I gave up on the idea, and that was when I was introduced to Linkable.
Setup
I discovered Linkable during a workshop given by Elaine Plybon recently at the Illinois Computer Educators conference. As mentioned above, I have been looking for an easy way to collect bookmarks and organize them into categories for our teachers. Once I signed up for a free account, I quickly created a tab for TechStaff, though I could easily see creating additional tabs for personal links. You're limited to seven tabs, though you can get a free one by signing up here. Also, by adding the "Save to Linkable" bookmarklet to my browser, I am now able to quickly add any website to my Linkable page.
Collecting and Organizing
Getting the links is the easy part, and many of the popular social bookmarking sites make it easy for you to do just that. With my categories, I'm able to intuitively drag and drop links anywhere on the screen. Linkable also works smoothly with browsers allowing you to import links already saved. New links are housed in the Inbox (though you can specify a category when you first save them), and they can easily be dragged into the appropriate category. Be sure to "unlock" bonus features (see upper right of your Linkable page) so you can access right-click functions including duplicating and deleting of links.
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