Bookmarking.  We all do it and it can be quite a burden.  For most of us, it is a constant process of selecting, organizing, tagging, reorganizing, retagging . . . well, you get the picture.  Bookmarking for most of us has been a great deal of work.  Thanks to Historious, it no longer has to be such a bear.

Historious is nothing short of bookmarking magic.  A few easy steps are all that stand between you and a searchable archive of your favorite sites.  It works something like this:

  • You find a site you like.
  • You bookmark it to Historious using a bookmarklet or browser extension.
  • You use Historious’ built-in search to recall the sites you have bookmarked.

Voila!  It could hardly be any easier.  Historious saves a copy of the site exactly as it exists when you bookmarked it.  This is perfect for those of us who like to bookmark particular stories.  You do not need to organize or tag your bookmarks as Historious takes care of all the indexing in the background.  It actually allows you to search the full text of the site you bookmarked.  So you may only a remember a few words or part of the title, but Historious will still find your site.  Try that with standard bookmarking applications!

Accounts on Historious are free.  You just need to register.  The bookmarklet is easy to install.  If you are using Google’s Chrome browser, there is a Historious extension that you can add to it.  You can even add Historious to your browser’s list of search sites.  Simple, elegant and powerful.  That is Historious.  We love it!

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As an information professional and visionary, John DiGilio has over 20 years of large law firm library and legal information vendor experience. He has proudly been affiliated with some of the largest law firms and information vendors in the industry. An award winning…

As an information professional and visionary, John DiGilio has over 20 years of large law firm library and legal information vendor experience. He has proudly been affiliated with some of the largest law firms and information vendors in the industry. An award winning writer and popular speaker, John believes in the value of information and the power it can bring when harnessed wisely and efficiently.

John is the Firmwide Director of Library Services for Sidley Austin LLP. He has written for numerous regional and national publications as well as taught college and graduate courses in such topics as business ethics, e-commerce, fair employment practices, research methodology and business law.