Linkwad

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One of the newest items in my personal toolbox is the Linkwad extension for Firefox. I tend to have a whole lot of browser tabs open at once -- if you're not familiar with tabs, that's essentially a stack of open browser windows. For me this is a great way of dealing with a set of search results: just open all the results that interest me in a set of tabs, and open any other related links in additional tabs; then work my way through the tabs one after another.

That's great if you can make it through ten or twenty tabs in one session. But what if you spend an hour finding a bunch of web sites you want to browse through, and run out of time to review them? Linkwad lets you store a whole set of open tabs for later reference and retrieval.

Once you install the Linkwad extension you need to register on the Linkwad site before you can save any tab sets. Once you're registed and installed the Linkwad toolbar all you do is hit "save" to store a tab set -- you can name it and describe it for future reference, and you can even share your tab set with other Linkwad users.

Linkwad is a handy way for lateral browsers to manage a lot of related web sites across multiple browsing sessions. Well worth an install.

Comments

Alberto says

January 31, 2007 - 3:19am
Hummm... I just tried LinkWad but I don´t find it useful enough considering other techniques and tools: -Just for save a group of tabs, it´s enough Menu>Bookmarks>Bookmark all tabs. It creates a folder in your bookmarks with all the open tabs. -To share with others, set a del.icio.us tag (say del.cio.us, or ma.gnolia, even technorati) Maybe I have been too fast trying linkWad, but I think linkwad best is to let you easily save a group of tabs, to be reviewed later FROM another location. Anyway give a try to ScrapBook, [ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/427/] another Firefox extension, that lets you capture, clasify and modify web pages, manage bookmarks and even capture a set of tabs in one step. Hope this useful!

Alexandra Samuel says

January 31, 2007 - 12:29pm
Great tips Alberto -- thanks!

John Thomas says

September 25, 2007 - 4:45pm
you can check out how linkwad could be on this web site: http://m.domaindlx.com/tabgrouper/ here is where i expose my ideas about tab grouping extensions. To me linkwad is the most promising one... if a few changes would be made as i refer on my site... John Thomas

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