Bookit – The Next Revolution in Bookmark Management

Here’s a product that I’ve been looking for ever since FireFox started spending more time as my browser of choice. Here’s the situation: more and more of your time is spent online and you often find yourself working between various Macs — all the while casually adding new bookmarks for things you want to use again the future. You may even use more modern bookmark managing services like del.icio.us (although you might run to the issue of not wanting to make ALL of your bookmarks available online). But almost inevitably, you will be searching through your bookmarks trying to find that really important site that you recently added but find yourself unable to locate it because you likely added it while you were on a different computer.

I tend to alternate between my 17″ Powerbook and my G5 Dual PowerMac and this seems to happen to me all the time. When I was exclusively a Safari, I took advantage of the bookmark syncing capabilities of .Mac but since adding FireFox to the mix, that solution no longer solves the problem. There are a couple FireFox specific plugins that claim to meet the need as well, some offering considerable flexibility (using .Mac, WebDav, FTP, etc) – but they don’t seem to be all that reliable but today I was re-introduced to Bookit. This product allows you to keep all of your bookmarks in sync, across multiple browsers which is exactly what I needed.

Sporting an impressive list of features, I think Bookit is going to take care of this problem for me quite nicely. Alas, this not an issue that everyone faces but if you too are trying to keep multiple sets of bookmarks in sync, even from home to work – give Bookit a look. There is a free trial available and will set you back $12 if you decide to purchase it.