How to use G+ as a Simple and Searchable Bookmarking Service
While Pinterest may be all the rage right now, it could help some people to know that Google+ is the ultimate bookmarking service.
Not only can you easily bookmark and categorize things that interest you, G+ makes it possible to search your bookmarks down the road and even share them to others.
It’s all in the beauty of Circles.
Newer users may not be familiar with the various ways Circles can be used. Not only can you categorize people according to interests, but you can also create empty circles to save things to yourself.
I created separate Circles named Bkmks:___ for each interest, and any time I read something I want to refer to later, I simply +1 the page to myself and share it to that empty Circle. In the event that the webmasters for the page are behind the times and don’t have a +1 button available, I use the Google +1 Button Extension for Chrome so that I can bookmark any page on the web!
It’s really that easy! A nice bonus is that I can search my Bookmarks later with the G+ Search feature (narrowing it down to my own posts,) and I can manage or delete them as necessary.
This is also handy when I’m using StumbleUpon and other services (and even surfing great G+ posts) where I want to search or refer to things later.
This way I have all my interests in the place I spend the most of my time– right here on G+!