Moving to Magnolia

Feb 12, 06:27 PM By Eoghan O'Brien.

I’ve been using delicious now for over a year, but I’ve never really liked the way it was set up, tagging is messy and the design is ugly. It wasn’t until yesterday that I finally gave up on delicious and made the switch to what is a vastly more usable and much better looking alternative, Ma.gnolia.

Ma.gnolia

After signing up (using my OpenID account) I quickly realized Ma.gnolia is much more than just a social bookmarking website, it is infact an entire community dedicated to finding interesting websites. There many different groups packed with people interested in the same sites as you, there is also a instant messaging system built helping members to keep in touch.

When I began add bookmarks to the service I wanted to do two things: 1. import my Firefox bookmarks and 2. import my delicious bookmarks. Ma.gnolia helps you to do this with two very simple processes in the Support & Tools section, it even gives you the option of turning all your folders in your browsers bookmarks into tags.

All in all, magnolia proved to be the much faster, cleaner, prettier choice than delicious, all I have left to do is change my link roll on this site so it brings in my Magnolia list rather than my Delicious list.

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