I keep a lot of bookmarks around. I mean, a lot! That makes it difficult to manage them, and for that reason I became a fan of tags, and a user of del.icio.us, a popular social bookmarking service. Now it’s much easier for me to find my bookmarks, and revisit places I’d been to on the net. I am talking of my personal bookmarks only, not the social aspects of having them on del.icio.us.

There are lots of other social bookmarking services now, each with its unique twist. The thing with most of them is that none are up to the level of convenience that I’d like to have. One thing I would like to have is a better interface, another is the ability to file my bookmarks faster, possibly skipping the step of tagging, yet being able to find a particular bookmark when I need it. Now LookLater might be the answer to this. First I heard of it from the post Startup blog, day 1 on The Business of Software. The idea was to have the first beta release out in 12 days! If you scroll down the original post, you’ll find out that Doug Martin, the author of the idea, is someone who really has the vision and experience to make it happen. He set up the development blog so that others could watch his progress in reaching the goal.

The first beta release did not happen yet, but it is about to happen anytime now. In the meanwhile, Doug released a couple of pre-beta demos, and they were quite impressive. It had that rare quality of being pleasant to use when I tried. I called those little bookmark pieces that were created on my clicks the looklets. Yet a very important thing to me was that Doug really listened to the users, and came up with things than can make me switch to LookLater indeed!

Anyway, don’t just read about it. Get out, read the development blog, try the demos, touch it, and feel what it’s like. You might like it as much as I did.