What is URL Organizer 2? Simply put URL
(Uniform Resource Locator) Organizer is a utility to help manage and
catalogue Internet web sites. The most frustrating aspect of Internet
surfing is saving the web site URL to the favorites or bookmarks.
Users can make folders, and subfolders, however, surf the internet
long enough and a new problem arises to remember in what folder the
web URL is stored. Users can fast search URL collections containing up
to 10,000 URL entries, and the lists can be shared between system
users.
URL Organizer successfully imports or
exports lists of favorites /bookmarks between Internet Explorer,
Netscape Navigator, Opera and AOL places data. The URL Organizer
program is fully customizable to suit any end user from the choice of
colour scheme, display format and window size.
Having surfed the internet for a few years
now I found my collection of URL links almost unmanageable, and
requiring more and more folders for storage. Granted I am a bit of a
URL pack rat, repeatedly saving interesting web sites I might want to
revisit someday. I soon found out even with extensive folders and
subfolders I needed a way to search and catalogue the information. Who
has not been embarrassed when wanting to show friends a newly
discovered and informative web site? Only to give up in frustration
trying finding it in the abyss that used to be called your favorites
list.
URL Organizer is graphic user interface
driven and extremely user friendly—you do not need to be a rocket
scientist to use URL Organizer. There are three main windows just
below the list, Edit, Browser, Application pull down menus and the
windows are: Categories, Subcategories and Titles. Below the three
windows are the current URL highlighted, and the Find, Open URL, Note
and Fetch buttons. In the application pull down menu there are three
"Modes" Compact, Regular, and Organize. The "Organize mode" is the
main work centre for URL Organizer, here users can add, Sort, Delete
and categorize their favorites or book marks.
I was amazed how fast URL Organizer could
find web sites I thought were lost in my over growing weed patch that
was my favorites list. Just enter a few letters or a keyword in the
Find window, and click on the glasses to search your lists. One very
unique feature of URL Organizer is you can add more information about
a web site using the built in Notes. When a note has been added to a
web URL, the program automatically places an asterisk (*) at the end
of the title and this is displayed in the "Titles" window.
After downloading and Installing URL
Organizer 2, I was shocked when looking at the bottom of the program
screen the program listed 3515 URL’s I had collected over the years. I
knew my favourites list was overgrown with far too many folders and
sub folders of URLs; however, never did I imagine the size was
three-thousand-five-hundred and fifteen. Time to get busy with URL
Organizer to do some favourites house cleaning, categorizing and
delete URL’s that no longer work.
URL Organizer 2, installed and ran on our
Windows XP system with no errors, in addition the program is very user
friendly. The only options I would like to see in a future version are
a plug in to the browser, and an ability to find and delete duplicate
URL’s. Edward Leigh’s URL Organizer 2, is an excellent value packed
program and worth three times the web site price. If your favorite or
bookmark list is getting out of hand, and finding saved web sites an
exercise in frustration, you need URL Organizer 2.
