Best bookmark managers for Google Chrome

If your are fond of Bookmarks then here are few alternatives are available beyond Chrome’s default bookmark manager, and Google’s optional extension for Chrome, Bookmark Extension.

1. Bookmarkie: A search box is located along the top of Bookmarkie’s panel, which you can use to find a bookmark by entering keywords. Click a folder and a list of the bookmarks you’ve stored under it expands downward. Bookmarks can be moved to another folder or spot on a list by dragging and dropping them.

Managing your bookmarks through this user interface works well enough, but becomes difficult when you’re having to drag a bookmark vertically through a long, scrolling list of bookmarks and bookmark folders.There’s no option to sort your bookmark listings by alphabetical order.

2. Bookmarks menu: Move the cursor over a bookmark folder and another panel automatically opens to the left, which lists your bookmarks that are stored inside that folder. You can reorder bookmarks by alphabetical order. But you cannot drag-and-drop a bookmark to another folder. This extension doesn’t allow you to delete folders, and it lacks a search function.

3. Chromarks: Clicking a folder opens a list of all the bookmarks inside it, which branches down. A bookmark can be dragged and dropped from one folder to another, but can’t be moved to another spot on a list. You can sort the order of your bookmarks alphabetically or by date, but this can only be done through the extension’s options settings. The top of the Chromarks panel has a search box.

4. Minimal Bookmarks Tree: Click a folder and the bookmarks saved inside it scroll down in an animated effect. You can drag-and-drop a bookmark from one folder to another, or move it to a new spot on the list, though there’s no option to organise your bookmarks in alphabetical order. This pop-up bookmarks manager doesn’t include a search tool. While the animation of the list of bookmarks scrolling down looks appealing, it became unnecessary eye candy whenever we simply wanted to get through deleting, editing or rearranging our bookmarks as quickly as possible. You can adjust the speed of this effect or turn it off.

5. POP UP My Bookmarks: Similar to the way the Bookmarks Menu extension works, hovering the cursor over a folder will cause the panel to expand toward the left to show the bookmarks inside the folder. There’s a search box at the top of the panel. Bookmarks can be sorted alphabetically or dragged from a folder and dropped into another, or to another place within a list. This extension includes some other maintenance tasks that the others lack, such as adding a horizontal line separator to your bookmark lists. Everything sounds good, but the responsiveness of the UI of this extension came across as a little unreliable – it didn’t perform as smoothly as the other pop-up bookmark managers in this feature, occasionally jamming up.

6. Tidy bookmarks: When you hover the mouse cursor over a bookmark folder, the Tidy Bookmarks panel expands to the left to list the bookmarks saved inside the folder. You can also manually adjust the panel’s width by clicking-and-holding onto its left border and dragging it side-to-side.

When you open a folder, the top of the panel then shows the nested path of the folder as a series of buttons representing any folders that are containing it; you can jump to a folder in this hierarchy by clicking the button with its name. There’s a search box at the top of the panel, but it goes away when you hover the mouse cursor over a folder. The drag-and-drop functionality lets you move bookmarks to another folder, or spot on a list, and this extension can sort your bookmarks alphabetically. This extension was a little jumpy whenever we would open it and click on a folder for the first time – the panel that appears to the left, to show your bookmarks inside a folder, slides out erratically as an animated effect.