Linkman Pro 8 (2 Computer License)

The Ultimate Bookmark Manager!

"Linkman is by far the best solution we've tried for keeping your bookmarks safe and up to date." -- CNET Editorial Review

Links, links, links. They're how we organize the internet, and for many of us, how we organize our lives. But how do we organize our links? How do we turn that rat's nest of hundreds, thousands, even tens-of-thousands of URLs into something useful, intuitive, and (most importantly) cross-browser?

With Linkman, of course!

Linkman -- short for Link Manager -- is a complete bookmark management solution that can efficiently organize and check large amounts of links and effectively replace your browser's native URL management system.

But best of all, Linkman offers uniform access across all of your browsers. Linkman allows you to install Firefox 3-11, IE 7-9, Chrome (all versions) and Opera 11 addons as optional components. No other bookmark manager features such comprehensive browser support. Not even close! Only Linkman ensures that all of your links will be readily accessible no matter which browser you're using at that particular moment!

But what about those nasty little 404 errors? After all, the internet changes over time, and a good link today might very well be a broken link tomorrow. Linkman includes powerful bookmark validation features that continually scan your link database for dead links, page movements, and even content changes!

And Linkman is fast, no matter how many links you've got stored away. Just start typing a keyword and get results within a second, even with link databases in the millions! In addition, Linkman allows you to combine wildcards and operators (AND, AND NOT, OR, "-") in your searches, and to utilize a powerful Search and Replace feature.

With secure password protection features, the ability to export and print out functional link reports, the option to install Linkman on a portable USB stick, and even the ability to sync databases between multiple computers, it's hard to think of anything Linkman can't do when it comes to bookmarks.

If you use bookmarks on a regular basis for work, play, or just plain living, you owe it to yourself to check out Linkman!

Version Alert: Linkman 8.0 offers up-to-date browser compatibility and fully supports the latest versions of Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Opera.

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Organize large databases (XML) of browser bookmarks. Linkman Pro can handle millions of links without performance or stability issues!
Access Linkman's powerful search feature directly in your browser.
Automatically retrieve keywords and descriptions.
Import and synchronize bookmarks across multiple browsers and computers.Linkman Pro offers support for 10 different import formats and is the ONLY bookmark manager that can import IE Favorites maintaining the correct item order and import Firefox 3-11 bookmarks including both tags and keywords!
Store links in a tree-view (with folders) or list-view (only keywords) structure, it's your choice!
Choose optional components to quickly add, edit and find your links: Desktop Toolbar, Drop Basket, Firefox and IE Addons.
Detect duplicate and dead links in your bookmark collection.
Install to a USB drive for ultimate portability.
Sync Linkman databases between different computers.
Utilize system-wide, configurable hotkeys for easy use, even when working with another application.
Out of all currently available bookmark managers, only Linkman is able to launch links to Firefox into the currently opened tab, a new tab, or a new window (users choice).
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“Linkman is a deep, rich research tool, and its power does come at the cost of a modest learning curve. So over the next few weeks I will list here some of the questions that came up for me while I was setting up my system, along with the answers to them that I got from Outertech. I hope that this will ease the path of any research-minded colleagues who are thinking of experimenting with Linkman. Because it is really, really nice to be able to find a bookmark when you want it. ”- Eve Golden, www.eve-golden.net
“Many people probably think they don't need anything beyond what comes standard with Internet Explorer or Firefox in the form of "Favorites" or the autocomplete address bar. If that is the case, well, you are all missing out on the conveniences of using a great bookmark manager like Linkman.”- Aram Chavdarian, DCMembers Linkman Review
“Linkman Pro has been an invaluable tool in my project research.”- George Albright, NASA HQ, Science Mission Directorate
“I have enjoyed using Linkman in my personal research work over several years. I have over 120.000 entries in a large knowledgebase. I am very satisfied with the stability and functionality of the product.”- Alfredo Sanchez, QoS Labs
“I use Linkman daily and it is an excellent bookmark manager. On my home PC I use Firefox but at work our PCs are restricted by our IT Department to IE. I run my copy of Linkman from a USB stick. The 'Drop Basket' makes adding and editing new bookmarks very straightforward, and the newly added Firefox features are a dream.”- Peter Clinton, UK
“Linkman is indispensable - it is one of the three programs that I always have open, and one of the first programs that I installed when I recently upgraded to a new PC. In short, I highly recommend Linkman for anyone who spends a lot of time on the web and values a reliable, efficient tool to organize bookmarks. Lastly, the developer is very responsive.”- Dr. Phil Hendrix, Institute for Mobile Markets Research
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Prof. Brian J. Careless If you are looking for an intuitive software program which allows you to filter the Internet for websites containing linguistic and other terminological resources, to organize these website references to suit your own purposes, to highlight those links to which you return most frequently, to check whether any of your links are dead and to access these links repeatedly according to catchwords you have assigned yourself, then you need look no further than Linkman Pro. Of unique value to you in your profession, it can also assist you to manage your favourite Internet websites in your personal life.

The 2 computer licence offer is too good to miss!

Prof. Brian J. Careless, North-West University

Feb 29 at 6:20am

Cyber Diva I've used Linkman Pro for three or four years, and I can't imagine being without it. It's lightning fast and enables me to find any of my thousands of bookmarks in a second or two without having to remember where in my complicated hierarchy of folders I had put it. I also love the fact that I have access to all my bookmarks no matter which browser I happen to be using, since Linkman works with all of them. In addition, the Pro version's URL validation is so good that I was able to get rid of a separate link checker that I used to use. In short, Linkman Pro is one of my favorite pieces of software, and getting a 2-computer license for $14.99 is a terrific deal!

Feb 29 at 8:05am

ken farrish I've used Linkman for over 6 years, and have over 30,000 links that I manage, update, and add to on a regular basis. I use it for both my website business and personal links. After reviewing and testing several other link management programs I found Linkman to be the most comprehensive yet user-friendly of them all. We also use it regularly for validation of the over 7000 links I have on my business site. As an additional bonus, we have had very good and fast responses from the Linkman team any time we have a question or suggestion. I highly recommend you give Linkman a try if you are looking for a cost-effective, comprehensive link management tool.
Ken Farrish
www.bcbuildinginfo.com

Feb 29 at 10:02am

Ted Urbanowicz I have used Linkman Pro for over 12 years. It is a great product to help organize links across multiple browser platforms. Great Product, it gets 5 (*****) stars from me.

Feb 29 at 10:30am

Dan H Linkman is the best bookmark manager I've found. I tried nearly a dozen and all came up short by comparison. I have over 13,000 bookmarks and the live search works instantly to find what I'm looking for. I've used Linkman with Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera (and IE if I really have to). Linkman continues to be improved and support has replied to my queries in minutes, often fixing the issue or adding the feature in the next build.

I can't say enough good things about Linkman - my only fear is that they'll stop developing the product. We need to spread the word so they can continue to maintain it.

Feb 29 at 10:30am

Steven Avery Hi,

And I would give Linkman 7 ******* on a scale of 5. I have a few times more bookmarks than Dan and Ken and use Linkman daily as my central reference depository. Sometimes I will go through an interesting web forum discussion and bookmark each page (even some posts) individually so I can jump right back to the discussion 2 years later (be careful about forum longevity) and be right at the discussion of the key points.

The key point of use is entering my keywords (takes 5 to 10 seconds to think it through and do the entry) when the entry is given and then I go back. So if I am looking for all the posts on "1 John 5:7" or on "bookmark" software, I can see the 50 or 500 links very quickly and then open up the pages that are the specific need. And I can drill down by adding another keyword.

And I also make a little effort to tidy up the description field as my main alphabetic view. (There is also a little trick to put an important common keyword visibly in the Description field.)

And there are features, like the fixed data fields (user defined) that look great but so far I have not really needed to use. btw, I run Linkman in what at Donationcoder we call "Powermarks mode" .. all keywords, no hierarchy. YMMV.

And I even end up using Linkman as my PIM and managers of pieces of info. "addy" is my code for my address book "wf" is webforum etc.

And this does not mean that you do not use separate notes or database programs (e.g. Rightnote, Listpro) but that your central repository for research can easily be Linkman.

Am I waxing poetic ? Sure. However, with good reason. Properly used, Linkman can be the single most helpful piece of software on your system.

Oh, support responsiveness .. A-1. On the rare glitch, the small enhancement and considering the path of future improvement. I agree with Dan that sharing how it works is helpful, to make sure that Linkman stays way above the critical mass for ongoing development. There are tons of people whose web research and access could be vastly improved, simply by this small software step. The Bits discount just makes it that much easier.

Steven

Feb 29 at 1:44pm

Jan-Christoph Ihrens Because of the comments of the others in this thread, I just looked up when I purchased my first Linkman version. Wow, it was eight years ago! Now I have a database of about 9,000 bookmarks.

I'm always open for new and better solutions (which is why I own quite a lot of software), but I never considered using another bookmark manager - for my needs it's almost perfect. The previous speakers already mentioned all the nice features Linkman has, so I'd just like to emphasize some of the things I like: It's extremely easy to use and never gets in your way, it's fast, and it's absolutely reliable.

The support is really good - just today they told me a feature I had requested a week ago has been implemented. If you're from Germany or some other country where German is spoken: You can contact the support team using your native language. :)

Buying a two computer license for $14.99 is an absolute no-brainer. It's also possible to buy a lifetime updates option and/or a priority support option.

Feb 29 at 8:02pm

Steve Larson Long time Linkman user too. As far as I see Outertech's Cacheman is also offered on the same day (http://www.bitsdujour.com...cacheman-7/). I bought it last year. I highly recommend both tools!

Mar 1 at 1:05am

Gordon McIntyre Outreach website shows Linkman Pro @ $24.95 and BDJ shows 'Retail $39.00'. Why?

Mar 2 at 12:51am

Thomas Reimann $24.95 is one-computer license, $39 is two-computer license.

Outertech Vendor - Mar 2 at 1:23am

Gonzo Any chance you'll consider porting Linkman to Linux?
I have yet to have to the time to try it under Wine/CrossOver, but if it gets ported much better.

Mar 2 at 2:00am

Thomas Reimann There are no plans for a Linux port. Too many parts of Linkman are Windows specific. There may be an Android version in the future, but it will have a small subset of the Linkman Windows features.

Outertech Vendor - Mar 2 at 2:45am

Keith G. What advantages would LinkMan have over an online bookmarking service such as Google Bookmarks or Delicious?

Mar 2 at 6:36am

bvssunnydale Can the license be uninstalled from computer (A) and moved to computer (B)? Thx.

Mar 2 at 6:39am

Thomas Reimann @ Keith

If you have 1000 bookmarks, finding and organizing them is way faster with Linkman compared to any online service. Also there is a privacy reason. You don't have to share your links with any company.

@ bvssunnydale

Aye.

Outertech Vendor - Mar 2 at 6:53am

T Cosgrove I bought Linkman on BdJ last March. I'm a professional researcher with a reference library of more than thirty thousand bookmarks, but I couldn't use it because it kept crashing my browsers. Tried one bookmark manager after another--no help. I was going nuts. Then Linkman. What a beautiful program. It works with Dropbox, which is the Best Ever. Fast and really competent support. (My problems weren't their fault, either. They all had to do with my crazy system, and even so they were really nice about it.) You can even bookmark your own local files. Linkman is more than a bookmark manager for me. It's a life organizer. Love it.

Mar 2 at 7:14am

h muenster When I try to purchase, the 2 computer license is priced (after discount) at $26.91.

Am I the only one running into this problem?

Mar 2 at 8:12am

El Matador I don't seem to be gettin the full 62% discount when I get referred to the store. The prices I get shown are listed below:

License Type:

Single Computer $24.95 $17.22
2 Computers $39.00 $26.91 33% Discount
5 Computers $79.00 $54.51 46% Discount
10 Computers $149.00 $102.81 56% Discount
Site License | Corporate $299.00 $206.31 93% Discount

Additional Purchase Options:

Lifetime Free Upgrades (+50% to base price)
License Protection (will be replaced if lost) $4.95 $3.42
Priority Support (24h, also on weekends) $9.50 $6.56

Even on the page after that one when I clicked enter coupon to make sure it was working the price didn't change. Am I missing something? I'd really
like to purchase this deal, but need clarification about this issue first. Thanks:)

Mar 2 at 8:23am

Thomas Reimann I think it there is a glitch on the BDJ website, so not all visitors get the 62% deal. Maybe Roger or Nico can shed some light into it.

Outertech Vendor - Mar 2 at 8:24am

Roger Thomasson Not sure what happened there folks, but everything appears to be back to normal. Please clear your browser cache if you're not seeing the appropriate discount.

Best!

-r

BitsDuJour Admin - Mar 2 at 8:29am

Thomas Reimann We have just released Linkman 8.40! Changelog: http://www.outertech.com/...-changelog

Outertech Vendor - Mar 2 at 8:40am

Bruce Is there a similar discount on one computer license - since it's just me... thx.

Mar 2 at 11:18am

Vanessa N I'm forced to post this here, in part to reach Roger as a frustrated comment on the design of the website such that the forum is buried way at the bottom of the page, where i posted a related Linkman question to current users of such software, and no replies yet (unless people hate me personally for some reason).

My question was (in part), do people who use Linkman, many of you doing massive quantities of research, it seems, also use "web research" programs such as Surfulator, the Inquiry products, and Web Research (which I like and use).....where you can also put your favorite websites (hence links) into folders, organize and tag, etc......with the added benefit that this is available to you off-line for reading?

If you do use both, do you keep them in sync somehow, or don't bother? And if you'd rather use Linkman than a web download/research product, why?

Thanks for any replies~

Mar 2 at 11:27am

Thomas Reimann @ Bruce
There is no deal for a single license, but the two licenses are way cheaper than the regular price for a single license.

Outertech Vendor - Mar 2 at 11:34am

Mark Lynam I've purchased three licenses for this product, the first two via a previous offer on BdJ.

I rely on it enough that I ponied up for another license.

It's a seriously fast piece of software.

Like others in this conversation, I use it for research purposes and Linkman offers the speed, fields, and flexibility I need.

Mar 2 at 1:24pm

Steven Avery Hi Folks,

Vanessa, I have played with web research programs like Surfalator and Metaproducts Inquiry and never quite found them as keepers. Right now I am thinking of more basic tools like RightNote or MyBase for the note and text and web pic hierarchy writing-planning orientation. (Replacing my reliance on my Eudora mailboxes, which do hold RTF and pics and have decent search, I use Eudora for a lot of holding since so much of what I do ends up on forum emails out.)

Possibly you could sync Linkman with a current research driven web product, I would say that at this time the folks at Donationcoder would share their thoughts, since they have good background in all these ideas.

My sense is that no matter how you structure your research, you can use Linkman productively, since many web pages you want more for quick access, quick recall (noting a keyword or three), super-easy find, rather than filtered text-pic analysis.

Hope that helps a smidgen.

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Incidentally, there is no comparison with web-based holders, Keith's question mentioning Google Bookmarks and delicious. They are much more difficult to work with, in my experience. I once also played with link-a-gogo.

However, I do see a potential purpose for the quick web-link access programs - easyBM, 43marks, xerpi, linkshelf (no guarantees on these programs, you have to research them a bit) and which are designed for going to places you visit frequently, in a sensible but vanilla fashion. Rather than creating your own web pages. I find using one or two cloud programs of that nature to be complimentary to Linkman. If I had thought of a way that they could integrate to Linkman purposefully, I would have put my ideas on Thomas' plate long ago :) . Even most of the better ones, like Symbaloo, take up too much real estate for one bookmark and are not designed for heavier navigation, often they are more "portal" oriented.

Shalom,
Steven

Mar 2 at 2:44pm

Bruce I was just taking a look at Linkman Lite, to evaluate, and notice that the in-browser right-click (context menu) now has five Linkman choices at the top of the list.

But, my expectation and experience has been that I am right clicking some text on a web page most often NOT for its link possibility. (This happens even on plain text selections.)

So is there a way to put COPY back up at the top of the context menu?
I have searched the online help and the in-program help but find no mention of any way to alter the context menu. Actually, no mention of context menu at all.
Thx. (sorry to have to ask such a newbie question here...)

Mar 2 at 6:24pm

VLM Bruce, if you are using Firefox, get the Menu Editor extension. :)

Mar 2 at 9:16pm

Steven Avery Hi,

Thomas, lead Outertech support, is probably in snooze land for a couple of hours. These are good questions, I personally use the cute drop basket as my basic launch place. However, I do not know of a COPY function there, or in the context menu, so I wonder if this is more of a request than a search ?

Most of the time when I copy I simply take a bunch of text and cut-and-paste it into the keyword or comment field, and this is only occasional. I do that to both be able to find the text or quote by keyword search (include the person's name) or to immediately have it handy when going back to the bookmark. While Linkman has some expansion plans, it is not really for text-writing, although some creative users may do more in that regard than I do.

Afaik, you are right about the context menu not being user-modifiable. I think I made a minor suggestion about placement a while back (generally good suggestions get implemented quickly) and decided that I am generally happy with the drop basket. Combined with tray use, ie. minimizing to tray and maximizing from tray.

And occasionally, when maximized, navigating the menu bar for options, special features, etc

Here is one .. e.g. Edit-->New-->Local File for "bookmarking" a PDF or .doc or exe on your disk... I can launch my XP .exe files from Linkman, an example of unusual use, a bit like "XP Syspad". I bring up my group of XP functions by searching XP (which I put in the name field) and "C:\" from the paths. Voila, there is Notepad, Scheduler, System Restore etc with direct access. It took me maybe fifteen minutes to set up, a control panel with keywords.

Here is another example of unusual use. Say you have 15 Firefox extensions that you might want to put on one system or another. You bookmark the web page with download with maybe "FF" "ext" and "mysys" to show all the ones you like, with quick access. Then you are over at work on a clean puter and you type in the keywords and you can choose and install in five minutes, without looking for notes and special save utilities or spending a half hour on google.

Hey, I see VLM just gave me one FF extension to try and add, for context menu flexibility. Done !

Steven

Mar 2 at 9:28pm

Nico Westerdale Due to the overwhelming response Outertech has agreed to extend this deal for another day - Enjoy!

BitsDuJour Admin - Mar 3 at 12:00am

Thomas Reimann @Bruce

You can rearrange the menu with this extension:

https://addons.mozilla.or...enu-editor/

Outertech Vendor - Mar 3 at 2:19am

Brian W Can Linkman Pro share/sync its database with Linkman Lite?

Mar 3 at 7:15am

Thomas Reimann Both use the same database, but unlike Linkman Pro, Linkman Lite does not support Dropbox/USB syncing, unless you sync and load the database manually.

Outertech Vendor - Mar 3 at 7:30am

Bruce Thanks for the FF Menu Editor addon suggestion, all.
Though I try to keep my FF addons to essentials (for stability and speed reasons) this one does the trick on re-ordering the Linkman items.

Mar 3 at 5:29pm

VLM Thomas, Although the Firefox Menu Editor extension CAN rearrange the menu, I do not believe it can put 5 entries together into one pull-right menu. That would be helpful, IMO.

Mar 3 at 5:36pm

Bruce To VLM,
for me at least, when I use now the FF MenuEditor, and I grab all four of the "Cut Copy Paste Delete" group, along with its separator bar below, I can move them to the top of the (very long) list of context menu items. This has the effect that now both the COPY and importantly, also the PASTE items always show up in the top group of context menu choices. Thus the Linkman five items are now in the second group down.

Though, I think it is still a good suggestion to OuterTech to allow some customization of the browser context menu.
But maybe it is not such a simple thing, now that I see the long list of items that may show up in the context menu.

Mar 3 at 6:06pm

Vanessa N @Steven,

I do thank you for your attempts to help here (in all ways)....I'm a little surprised that there are not more replies as to why one would choose a bookmark product or a web research/content saver product (or both, and how they manage).....

I do like your ideas for using Linkman to tag your favorite FF extensions (as well as your other uses)....I'm an IT support person so generally all my installers are on my keychain drive, but with FF extensions you pretty much have to be on-line. And you may not want to download everything in the universe (your favorite forums, etc) into a web research program (although certain subject forums lends itself well to that, in terms of useful information), but if one's web surfing habits are out of control that leads to hundreds of interesting links (that you never get to read fully or know what to do with), you wind up "bookmarking for later" and then you lose control over the many of them. And if you downloaded (although with programs like Web Research it's very easy to selectively download a hierarchy (or not) of pages) everything you thought interesting, your web/info database would be out of control, size-wise.

I just wish that for things like bookmarks that it was more integrated in-browser, rather having to have a separate program open in order to deal with them (much like needing a separate program like Surfulator, WR, Inquiry, etc, for the more understandable task of trying to save web information permanently in an offline format).....In other words, if the browser developers got their act together and made a decent organizational system for their bookmarks, programs like Linkman would be out of business. I suspect it would probably slow down the browser tremendously, though, unless we have an infinite amount of bandwidth. So I think Linkman will be around for a while :)

Mar 3 at 6:07pm

Bruce Vanessa,
I have found that I am able to force many of the FF extensions to download as an .xpi file, rather than install immediate. Then I copy those .xpi files to my Firefox browser support folder on my flash drive.
(To my ever growing troubleshooting flash drive, which I have to periodically move to the next larger GB size... ;) )

Mar 3 at 6:11pm

Thomas Reimann Vanessa, I think putting your links into the browser makes sense if you have 100-500 of them. Anything more and you get in trouble. For example - Firefox was a great browser years ago, but now it's an unbelievably slow memory hog. Taking your bookmarks from Firefox to say Chrome is not that easy, as you will loose some data (I think Linkman is still the only non Firefox app that is able to import FF tags, but I may be wrong here). The other side is speed. The internal bookmark implementations (sqlitelite in FF, .url files in IE) are so horrible, working with more than 10.000 links makes the fastest computers available come to a halt. We have seen several examples where FF crashed on load because the number of tags reached a large number.

We do know the archivator part is missing in Linkman, but it will be integrated into Linkman 9, later this year.

Outertech Vendor - Mar 3 at 6:20pm

VLM Vanessa, there is a Firefox extension called FEBE (Firefox Extensions BAckup Extension), by Chuck Baker. It's been around for years and is very stable, and Chuck provides support as if his users were paying an annual support fee ... which they are not.

Anyway, if you use FEBE to backup your extensions, preferences, and whatever else you wish, you can then take that FEBE folder to another machine and "Restore" everything to any Firefox you wish.

The key to making this work lies here: in the FEBE Options What to back up Backup type, choose either "Selective" or "Both". The full profile backup can only be used to restore a full profile. I've always created it and never once used it. In contrast, the Selective backup allows you to specify exactly what to back up. You can even incorporate user-defined backups. For example, I back up my personal dictionary (persdict.dat) this way. With a little manual tweaking or scripting, this could be a great way to propagate a standardized site dictionary or the like.

Be sure to back up preferences. This includes not only all the Firefox preferences, but also the extension preferences and Firefox settings. For example, a "setting" is the entire cookie exceptions list. Nice!!!

My personal experience well reflects what Thomas says, above, about a heavy load of bookmarks bringing Firefox to a halt. I have a 1-year-old machine running Intel's new Sandy Bridge chipset, etc. And Firefox slows the whole machine, crashes with ridiculous frequency, etc. when the bookmarks (about 12,000, in my case) sit inside the app's intrinsic database. So I suggest just putting perhaps a few dozen or even a few hundred "most-favored" bookmarks into Firefox's Bookmarks Toolbar and stash the rest in Linkman. You can then use Firefox keywords to launch those most-favored bookmarks very quickly from within Firefox and rely upon Linkman for the remainder. Also, in your support role, you could use the Bookmarks Toolbar to propagate some site-standard bookmarks that many people likely use frequently. Just a thought.

I hope you find this helpful!

Mar 3 at 6:59pm

Steven Avery Hi,

Vanessa, my understanding is that the archivator project will be the Linkman effort to expand more into actual web content, e.g. being sure that the links to specific pages do not get stale, by allowing you to download-import to disk. Leading to more possibilities of integration. (This is also an example where Linkman responded to more complex user requests as part of the overall direction.)

Keep in mind that it is hard to do .. everything. Projects vary tremendously, in many cases web archiving is central, in other cases that is auxiliary to a writing project. And in tons of cases you simply want to find and return to pages that you described with keywords and short visible descriptions. Where Linkman shines special. The Linkman strengths stand on their own.

And I could give dozens of examples of how I clump keywords together similar to FF, I happen to do a lot of PIM and special info management through Linkman.

One example, I use SN# for the keyword of serial #s of registered software and I'm sure that I paste it in there. Thus my Linkman backup is a registration software backup That does not mean that I do not, maybe, also put all that info into Listpro or some database, but that the first spot is Linkman, which also has the url to the software.

Here is another example. If I post to a forum, and I want to make it easier to return to that page I simply make sure I Have "MYPOST" in there as a keyword. Then the forum name and MYPOST might bring up 5 posts (eg in Mozillazine, WebofTrust, or a Bible forum) with the name of the thread which was brought in automatically and voila, I found that post from 6 months or 3 years ago quickly.

The thing about Linkman as PIM is that you get the stuff in as you go.

Are there things that I would like to construct?. Sure. I have a few hundred emails in my Eudora box on one research topic that would be nice to keyword organize and search, and to do that I would have to send them over to a Google or Yahoo forum (or a Gmail acct) where each post has a url. No quickie way from A to Z, so I simply use the Eudora search for now.

The way to look at Linkman is as a base organizing tool. You may have all sorts of other tools for database, writing, and organizing, but Linkman becomes a type of home plate.

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Incidentally as for Firefox being a memory hog, (even while having great tools) I've come to the conclusion that you simply crash the program and start fresh every few hours after you have 50 or more window open. The windows are not that important. You have already Linkmanized what you need, the key point, it is like your own little handy history-review.. And the firefox history is there for special needs. It is barely worthwhile to close windows once the thing slows down, simply crash it and start clean.

Steven

Mar 3 at 8:33pm

Rick Truell VLM:

Since an on-going discussion of Firefox and its extensions would be off-topic here, I started a new thread in the forum. If you would be so kind as to check it out ....

Mar 3 at 9:53pm

Vanessa N @Bruce....about that flash drive.....Yes, I'm contemplating buying a 32 gig or 64 gig flash drive....I don't know how I'm dealing with a 16 gig besides off-loading all the time :)

@VLM....hugely helpful tips - thank you. I'll check those out.

@Steven again and Thomas....thanks again to Steven for more ideas on how to use Linkman (or how you use Linkman)....Do they pay you much? ;) But user experiences like these can be more helpful than a help manual. And thanks especially for clarifying a little possibly about what Thomas meant about the achivator part....I'm also assuming this means being able to download site pages or site portions as other programs do?

Mar 3 at 11:58pm

Thomas Reimann Yes Vanessa, the archivator feature will download the complete Linkman database (or parts of it) for offline use.

Outertech Vendor - Mar 4 at 2:10am

VLM Yes Rick Truell, I see the forum thread, great idea! I've responded to your post there, attempting to provide more clarity about the distinctions between and among FEBE, CLEO, and OPIE.

BTW, if you go to Chuck Baker's forums at

http://www.customsoftware.../index.php

you'll note that FEBE and CLEO have a combined forum. That's informative!

Mar 4 at 6:18am

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