- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (50-day trial); $25.00 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: October 30, 2001
- Total Downloads: 67,372
- Downloads last week: 53
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- Average user rating: stars out of 24 votes
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Publisher's description
From Softgauge.com :Compass offers an Explorer-style interface and a full range of tools to help you organize your bookmarks. The new search mechanism fulfills your queries. Compass lets you drag links embedded in a Web page and drop them into your bookmark pool. Other features include printing, enhanced sorting, enhanced drag-and-drop functionality, and improved editing features, such as undo, copy, and paste. Version 2.83 generates an XML File.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 2.8 stars out of 24 votes
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Compass 2.83
"After 7 years, corrupted database, no developer response - avoid at all costs!"
Pros: Seven years ago, this was an excellent bookmark manager. But the developer has not kept the product up to date and it has serious flaws.
Cons: I have thousands of bookmarks in hundreds of folders. I periodically make backups of the database. Nevertheless, I discovered that about 4 months ago, hundreds of my bookmarks were moved from within my folders to the very end of the folder list - which I had no reason to notice without scrolling to the bottom of the folder list. What a conundrum: lose four months of data, or try to recover the current bookmark file.
I contacted the developer, Daniel Liu, daily for four days. No response.
With the help of my favorite editor (Vim), I was able to edit the latest bookmark file, remove all unique Compass html tags. I found that many entries not only included meta descriptions, but also javascript embedded in the website header section!! Indeed, some entries included portions of the website html body!. It took hours and hours to clean up the corrupted file. Never again!
Based upon ratings, downloads, features, and release frequency, I have selected the following as the top bookmark managers:
Link Commander
URLBase
Bookmark Buddy
InBookmarks
I am currently evaluating Link Commander and URLBase and will ultimately go with one of these products.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Compass 2.83
Pros: Nothing beats direct "searching as I type"
my 6700 links and notes in 570 folders and
getting the info >immediatly<.
Personally I don't need an update and
stability only was an issue when i had
10000+ links and way too many notes
(export took care of that).
Check it out and click around, there's
more than first hits the eyes.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Compass 2.83
"Good product; last updated in 2001"
Summary: Compass was an excellent bookmark manager, but it hasn't been updated since 2001. I finally gave up and replaced it with URLBase.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Compass 2.83
Summary: This product worked well back in the dark ages.
Will not work with Netscape beyond
V4.7.9. Really needs updating very badly. Author does not care. -
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Compass 2.83
"Great design killed by a few fatal flaws."
Summary: I have to vote a Thumbs Down on Compass 2.83, which is unfortunate; because except for two very major problems Compass would have been the best bookmarks manager I tested. After reviewing all of the significant bookmarks software and downloading and... read more >>
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