First let me say – I have no connection to Papaly.com, other than I recently discovered the website and really like how I can use it to organize my online bookmarks.  I have tons of websites that I’ve bookmarked, but it almost becomes pointless at some point because it’s too hard to find anything.  And once it becomes hard to find a bookmark, I end up re-bookmarking websites, which just exacerbates the problem!

So I started looking for another solution and I found Papaly.com.  Here’s what I like:

1. I was able to import my existing bookmarks using an HTML bookmark file that I exported from my browser (Chrome).
2. I can create multiple boards, and then within the boards have multiple sub-boards by category to keep everything organized.

The one thing I didn’t like: it made itself my default new tab when I open a new browser window without asking me.  And finding the setting to change that was a little difficult.

So here is how I’m using it to organize my bookmarks:

1. I have multiple categories of bookmarks – not just genealogy.  So I created separate boards for each of those topics.  To start, they currently are:
   1. Just for Fun (silly, mind candy websites)
   2. Work Related (my 9-5 FT job)
   3. Truck (for my husband’s 1958 Chevy Truck Restoration)
   4. Dogs
   5. My Husband’s Business
   6. Personal Finance
   7. Genealogy (of course!)
2. Within Genealogy, I have multiple tiles with lists of the websites related to those topics.  I have so many Genealogy topics, however, that I think I may need to even break up that board into multiples.  But for now, within my genealogy board, I’m organizing my bookmarks in the following way:
   1. Different sub-categories for Places – State, Cities, Countries where my ancestors lived.  Some examples: Germany, Georgia, Brooklyn
   2. Blogs I Follow
   3. Genealogy Sub-specialites, such as Military, Native American, Genetic Genealogy, Newspaper Research, Immigration
   4. Maps and Geography
   5. Genealogy Education – webinars, classes
   6. Genealogy Societies
   7. Images – sources for royalty-free, public domain and unrestricted use images
   8. Timelines – websites for generating timelines
   9. My blog – websites I use to manage my blog and generate content specific to blogging
   10. Genealogy writing websites
   11. Professional Genealogy websites
   12. Google books and other digital books I’ve found
   13. Repositories and Libraries

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