Yesterday I spent an incredible amount of my time sorting out my bookmarks. I know this sounds incredibly dull and time consuming, but the idea is spend the time now, save time later.

I never got into Delicious but I did attempt to play around with it and Magnolia at the time. The thing is it all felt a bit overkill for me and the social aspects got in the way. The latest king of the bookmarking application is Pinboard.in and as I discovered yesterday, with good reason. It’s proclaimed as antisocial bookmarking, which is a perfect description. It’s about your bookmarks, organised.

###The Hurdle There are a couple of hurdles to get past though before you can get to bookmark nirvana. You have to import your bookmarks and then organise them within Pinboard. The way it’s done in Pinboard is through tags. There are no folders. That’s the first and, as far as I’m concerned, only rub. Pinboard tries hard to make it easier to edit and organise your bookmarks, but when you’re dealing with hundreds of bookmarks, it’s going to take the time it takes to go through them and tag them properly.

###Features Features that I appreciate having include the private bookmarks, the general smart import features (which allow you to import from any modern browser or from your twitter account as well). The final feature that I’m thankful for, isn’t so much a feature, but the lack of additional bells and whistles to try and distinguish itself. There is very limited social interation (which is great). The web interface is all about the text, doesn’t slow down the loading process with thumbnails, you can have as much information or little as you want (show or hide the actual url path) and the colours of the various information is clear and distinct.

###Impact The biggest impact for me however is that I’ve finally found a solution to my bookmarks. For years they have been scattered across several browsers, and honestly I’d never go back to them, as I would never know what was going on. Pinboard is an incredibly tempting solution which will reduce the barrier of find what I’m looking for, or at least remember something that I had originally found in the past.

I can now be found here if you want to know what I’ve been linking to.