Pinboard

Pinboard is a bookmarking service that allows you to easily save, tag, annotate, share, and archive bookmarks independent of your browser. Pinboard describes itself as "antisocial bookmarking," which highlights its capabilities as a private and personal archiving tool compared to the social features offered by Yahoo's Delicious service. I find Pinboard a simple, fast, and reliable way for me to save bookmarks and archive web pages for future reference. I have been happily using the service for nearly five months (Update a year) and recommend it highly. Pinboard has become a part of my everyday online reading experience as I use it archive both a bookmark and the full text of any article I found interesting or that I plan to read later. My primary use of Pinboard is as a personal archive rather than a public bookmark sharing service, and I prefer it to Yahoo's Delicious bookmarking service, although Pinboard has fewer options for sharing and tag management. For example, it does not support the Delicious style of aggregating multiple tags in tag bundles or the ability to share a bookmark with a specific user. To start using the service, simply drag one of the Pinboard bookmarklets into your browser bookmark bar. The first style of bookmarklet can either open a new page or a popup window allows you to edit the URL, title, description, tags, and optionally mark the bookmark as private or "to read". I use the send style of bookmarklet that Pinboard calls "read later. This bookmarklet saves the page, automatically marks it as read later, and returns you to the place on the page where you left off without opening a new window or a popup. The "to read" status allows you to quickly build up a reading list without interrupting your workflow.