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google bookmarks firefoxHighlight and save web pages to Google Bookmarks

While you easily add website links to Google Bookmarks using the Google Toolbar in IE or Firefox, an option definitely worth considering is Yawas.

Yawas (short for Yet Another Web Annotation System) is a brand new Firefox extension that offers something extra which you may not see in existing social bookmarking add-ons.

You can highlight one or more blocks of text on a web page and they automatically get saved inside the notes field of your Google bookmarks account along with the address of that website.

The more interesting part is that when you revisit that web page in future, Yawas will automatically highlight the text portions on that web pages that you have earlier clipped to Google Bookmarks. So you immediately know about the sections that you earlier found to be interesting.

Yawas [Firefox 3 Compatible] Web Clipping Software

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Published on April 8, 2008 under Software, Web Browsers
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Reader Comments

#1 Alfred 04.08.08

You should all seriously check out diigo because it’s del.icio.us on steriods with annotation and a lot of other features this is the best social bookmarking tool online. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RvAkTuL02A for a quick preview and forget this YAWAS.

#2 Michael 04.08.08

Have you tried the Gmarks extension for Firefox? It’s the one I use to add to and organize my bookmarks. It sits in the sidebar and has toolbar buttons for quickly adding links.

I’ll definitely give YAWAS a try. It’s ability to highlight and remember notes is a huge bonus!

#3 crgraham 04.08.08

Maybe I’m confused, but I’ve been using Google Bookmarks from the Google Toolbar in Firefox for quite a while (at least a year).

#4 Amit Agarwal 04.08.08

Thanks crgrahan - I earlier had Google Firefox toolbar v2 and that probably didn’t support Google Bookmarks. But the new v3 definitely supports it. Updated.

#5 Technology Hacker 04.08.08

This seems to be very useful indeed.I will give it a try..Thanks Amit.

#6 JC 04.08.08

Is there a way to somehow make Firefox 3 Beta 5 work in such a way that when I click the Star Icon on the “wonder bar”, it will automatically save the bookmark in my google-bookmarks account (and not to the offline firefox bookmark-system)?

#7 Vivek 04.09.08

For Google bookmarks - It’s actually very easy. Just save this link as a bookmark in Firefox

Ed: Vivek - Is that the regular bookmarklet for Google Bookmarks. What makes Yawas slightly different is that it remembers that notes that you have saved in Google Bookmarks. They automatically get highlighted in Yellow when you revisit the page.

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