Compass 2.83

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Publisher's description of Compass

From Softgauge.com: Compass offers an Explorer-style interface and a full range of tools to help you organize your bookmarks. The new search mechanism fulfills your queries. Compass lets you drag links embedded in a Web page and drop them into your bookmark pool. Other features include printing, enhanced sorting, enhanced drag-and-drop functionality, and improved editing features, such as undo, copy, and paste. Version 2.83 generates an XML File.

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  Compass

  After 7 years, corrupted database, no developer response - avoid at all costs!

  by: Fredo33 on 10-Mar-2008 08:09:03 AM

  Pros: Seven years ago, this was an excellent bookmark manager. But the developer has not kept the product up to date and it has serious flaws.

  Cons: I have thousands of bookmarks in hundreds of folders. I periodically make backups of the database. Nevertheless, I discovered that about 4 months ago, hundreds of my bookmarks were moved from within my folders to the very end of the folder list - which I had no reason to notice without scrolling to the bottom of the folder list. What a conundrum: lose four months of data, or try to recover the current bookmark file.

  I contacted the developer, Daniel Liu, daily for four days. No response.

  With the help of my favorite editor (Vim), I was able to edit the latest bookmark file, remove all unique Compass html tags. I found that many entries not only included meta descriptions, but also javascript embedded in the website header section!! Indeed, some entries included portions of the website html body!. It took hours and hours to clean up the corrupted file. Never again!

  Based upon ratings, downloads, features, and release frequency, I have selected the following as the top bookmark managers:

  Link Commander

  URLBase

  Bookmark Buddy

  InBookmarks

  I am currently evaluating Link Commander and URLBase and will ultimately go with one of these products.

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  Compass

  Still the best

  by: stu2421 on 05-Aug-2005 04:16:32 AM

  Pros: Nothing beats direct "searching as I type"

  my 6700 links and notes in 570 folders and

  getting the info >immediatly<.

   

  Personally I don't need an update and

  stability only was an issue when i had

  10000+ links and way too many notes

  (export took care of that).

   

  Check it out and click around, there's

  more than first hits the eyes.

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  Compass

  Good product; last updated in 2001

  by: on 27-May-2004 08:50:53 AM

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  Compass

  Needs updating.

  by: on 05-Jan-2003 11:40:09 AM

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  Compass

  Great design killed by a few fatal flaws.

  by: on 20-Jan-2002 03:32:00 AM

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