As you study and research online, you will no doubt discover resources and websites you would like to save and revisit. Bookmarks can help you organise and manage these resources. You can ‘bookmark’ websites that you will want to come back to using your web browser. You can have as many bookmarks as you want, and you can organise them in folders, categories etc. You can also use more advanced bookmarking tools to keep track and manage your bookmarks.
How could they help me with my learning?
By keeping all your information about bookmarks in one place, and making it easy to find and sort them using tags, bookmarking tools make retrieving information much more straightforward.
Basic bookmarking tools
In most browsers you can quickly save a bookmark by clicking the 
or 
sign in the address bar. Alternatively, you can use the following commands:
- Chrome: Bookmarks > Bookmark this tab,
- Microsoft Edge: Favorites > Add to favorites,
- Mozilla Firefox: Bookmarks > Bookmark this page,
- Safari: Bookmarks> Add bookmark.
Next time you want to access your bookmarked site, you can go to your Bookmarks section to quickly access the link you saved. In order to access your bookmarks from a different computer or device, you may need to sign in to your browser.
Advanced bookmarking tools
Alternatively, web-based bookmarking tools exist that allow you to collect your bookmarks on one website and access them from any computer. Additionally, bookmarking tools:
- enable you to categorise your links through the use of tags (classifications that you can devise to help you retrieve links on related topics), add notes and annotate documents,
- allow you to share your bookmarks with anyone else who uses the same tool (though you can choose to keep some or all of your links private), and
- help you explore resources and curated lists shared by other users.
Social bookmarking services tend to be free to use. Here are a few sites which have useful features to support your learning process and essay preparation:
- Wakelet allows you to save and organise web content in your own space,
- BibSonomy and Zotero can help you collect, discover, organise and comment on academic sources,
- Diigo has tools to collect, organise, annotate and share bookmarks.
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