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start.io

What’s the first thing that you see when you launch your Web browser? We all use different start pages, but I must admit that mine is pretty boring because I use Yahoo! as my start page of choice. It’s been that way for years, although I’m not opposed to changing it. It would probably be better for me to use a site that links to all of the things that I enjoy viewing each day. Bookmarks are useful, but having all of the essential content on one page would be even better. A service called start.io lets you load up a custom start page with all of your favorite links.

As you’ll see, these pages are simple and can be broken up into categories. If you’re feeling adventurous, you can even dig in and edit the layout to make it what you want it to be. I especially like how start.io can indicate when the links have been updated so you know what’s worth visiting. If you’re hesitant to change your start page, just give it a try and see what you think. Changing back is easy, plus you’ll probably end up wondering why you haven’t used something like start.io before.

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You mention that bookmarks are useful, but having all of the essential content on one page would be even better. I share a similar belief, so what I do is export my bookmarks to a saved file, then use THAT file for my home page! You can do this as often as you like to refresh the page, and for me, at least, I have the best of both worlds.

Elaine - start.io is actually the same thing as as exported bookmarks file, because that’s how it started! The advantage to having them hosted remotely is you can take that file with you to whatever computer or phone you’re using.

Full disclosure - I co-founded start.io ;)

Thanks for the writeup!

Good point, Peter, but for ME personally, I’d rather keep my bookmarks on my own machine. I rarely if ever need to take them with me, but if I did, I’d more than likely simply put them on a flash drive. Different strokes…

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