Pinboard or Delicious?
Switch if you...
- Find delicious too slow, particularly for adding bookmarks.
- Prefer a simple user interface.
- Want to be able post notes and other snippets of text.
- Never want to see linkspam.
- Want longer descriptions on your bookmarks.
- Want to be able to download bookmarks for offline viewing.
- Find yourself keeping lots of tabs open with things you want to read later.
- Want to automatically bookmark your links and favorites from Twitter.
- Want to keep an archive of your tweets and Twitter favorites.
- Enjoy using Instapaper, Read It Later or Google Reader and want to automatically bookmark what you read there.
- Want to post bookmarks by email from your iPhone or Blackberry.
- Want to have private tags only you can see.
- Want the option of making everything you bookmark private.
- Prefer to get support directly from developers.
- Want your links automatically de-shortened.
- Want to be able to bookmark geographical locations.
- Want to bulk edit all your bookmarks in one step.
- Want to keep a copy of every bookmark you save (this costs $25/year).
Stay if you…
- Like a more graphical UI.
- Don't want to pay a signup fee (Pinboard costs around $6 to join).
- Want to see thumbnails of your bookmarks.
- Want to auto-post to Wordpress or Twitter from your account.
- Are excited about integrating your bookmarks with other Yahoo services.
- Want a Firefox plugin for bookmarking.
- Rely on tag bundles to keep your tags organized.
- Want to see who has you in their network.
- Like to share URLs with others using 'for:' tags.
- Want a more compact list view of your bookmarks.