Browsys Brings the Folder Metaphor to Browsing

Many Windows and Mac users are intimately familiar with folders as an interface metaphor. AltSearchEngines has written an interesting post about Browsys, a search site that lets you organize your favorite web sites and online tools into folders and share them with others. While most of us use bookmarks and other standard ways to organize online content, Browsys is an easy way to group sites into categorized folders, where you have the option of sharing entire folders with other users by simply supplying them with a single URL.

Browsys is a search engine and comes with a set of pre-built site categories, as seen in the screenshot above. However, you can also create your own virtual folders where you round up web sites falling into categories, as seen below. I can share the group of folders found below with you by supplying one, auto-generated URL — an efficient way to collaborate.

I can also edit and rename folders as seen in the screenshot below. Each folder can contain up to 12 sites, and you can add these folders to your bookmarks.

To work with folders, you just click on the “Virtual Folders” link on Browsys’ home page. The site does not require you to register or sign up. Especially if you frequently share collections of sites with colleagues, Browsys is worth a try.

Have you tried Browsys? How do you share collections of sites with colleagues?

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