Welcome to HomeMarks

HomeMarks is a unique application allowing everyone from novice to elite the ability to create their own bookmark start page using easy drag and drop methods for sorting Columns, Boxes and Bookmarks. Our custom bookmarklet tool allows you to add links to your HomeMarks start page while surfing and/or researching online. If you're a bookmark junkie with literally hundreds of saved links to your favorite Internet haunts, HomeMarks is not for you. However, if you’re looking for a clean, simple homepage to organize your most recent or relevant links in an environment tailored to your needs and interests, give HomeMarks a try. After all, HomeMarks is where the heart is.

Features

HomeMarks allows you to dynamically create and sort Columns, Boxes, and Bookmarks into your own custom start page. Boxes can be customized with a title of your choosing or colored to match the theme and nature of the bookmarks within them. Bookmarks can be dragged from Box to Box, sorted or easily deleted.


The most important part of any bookmarking system is the bookmarking tool. The HomeMarklet (our bookmarklet) allows you to save most any type of link to your HomeMarks start page without even leaving the current page you are on. Bookmarks can be saved to an Inbox or directly to any of the boxes on your start page. Read through the online documentation to see all of HomeMarks features, or signup now and create your own HomeMarks page.

About

HomeMarks was built by using the Ruby on Rails framework with a heavy emphasis on AJAX and Dynamic HTML, using both the Prototype and Scriptacoulous JavaScript libraries. It was made by me, Ken Collins, as my first pet project while learning the Rails framework and I hope that you find it useful. HomeMarks is currently free to use as long as I can cope with the costs to run the service.

Following up from my presentation at the Rails Edge conference in Reston, Virginia, HomeMarks is now an open-source project. I have attached a MIT license to this download so it is free free free to anyone wishing to use it or simple learn from it. I always appreciate feedback, so if you would like, please contact me using the email provided in the README file included in this download. There are also some important notes in there on how to get the app up and running.