How many bookmark programs are there out there, anyway?
  Gotta be hundreds. Maybe a thousand.
   The trouble with all of them is that you save a bookmark and then, a month later, you wonder what in the heck is that bookmark, anyway. Right? Right.
   Well, here is the solution to that one: VIS Bookmarks. Its visual.
   You know the drill, you start going through the bookmark file and you see 80-gazillion things you've saved. You're looking for one in particular, so you start clicking on those saved bookmarks. How do you tell if it is the one you want? Easy, you look and see what pops up in your browser.
   Now, wouldn't it be rather super if you could just see the pages in the first place? With VIS Bookmarks you can do just that.
   To the left is a reduced size display of what VIS Bookmarks looks like when you call it up and ask to look at the "search" category. Simply put, VIS Bookmarks captures an image of the pages you visit and when you save a bookmark, it saves the image. You can set up any number of categories, just like the bookmark manager built into your browser. Ur, oh. Built into Internet Explorer, since VIS Bookmarks only works with that program.
   I don't want to be saying VIS Bookmarks is a "killer app," but I will say it is useful enough to make me change my default browser from Netscape to IE.
   By the way, an undocumented feature of VIS Bookmarks is that it stores all these little mini-screen shots as GIF files on your hard drive. Of course that means it loads your visual bookmarks fast, but it also means you have these nice little screen shots to play with.
   I have my own start pages which I created with NetObjects Fusion. I use some of these GIF files from VIS Bookmarks as visual guides to links to the pages on these start pages. Since I am visual, I "see" these links much faster than just the words for the start page links. And it is rather easy to do.
   Finally, you can, of course, delete these visual links and move them from one category to another. A very nice program.

   Link to the VIS Bookmarks web site.