Hello John

Firstly thank you for your work on GMarks. I've used a variety of
bookmarking systems over the years and found yours to be the best so
far. There are lots of good things about it but the two standout
features for me are having a reliable server-based repository and
nested tags. I've used 3 or 4 systems that synchronize bookmarks, and
although good sooner or later get it wrong, and hey presto two copies
of your bookmarks. They always struggle in particular with deletions.
So having the server repository is fantastic. I don't particularly
care if it is Google bookmarks or not but Google does have the
advantage that it's free, reliable and accessible from browsers
without the extension. The nesting feature is the one I've always
wanted, so it was a real pleasure to discover that at last someone has
done it. Flat tags are great but quite limiting when one has a lot of
bookmarks. Being able to assign a bookmark to multiple hierarchies is
just so good.

Contributing to Firefox seems like a great idea, certainly if Firefox
could do natively what GMarks can do it would be both more convenient
and a valuable enhancement to the browser - point of distinction in
fact - however if that doesn't work out, please continue!

Outside of the two main features I am easy to please, but if you are
looking for suggestions then things that assist with managing
bookmarks would be appreciated. Once you get above a certain number
management becomes important. Ideas that spring to mind are:

- Validation - troll through bookmarks and test they still work. Auto-
tag broken ones with "Broken link" for later checking
- Check for duplicates - similarly auto-tag with "Duplicate"
- Favicon update - process to troll through and look for favicons when
not already present
- An option for sorting by usage count - would be handy for rapid
access and highlighting old ones that need checking

Processes for maintaining bookmarks like this are I think green fields
for development, i.e. I don't think anyone else has done it yet.

Cheers
Dennis

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