I have discovered a great solution to a pressing problem. Perhaps it is just me, but I certainly find the whole old school "bookmarking" thing a bit tedious and annoying. The same goes for "favoriting" a certain URL. For those of us who use many different browsers in a given day, we can never remember where exactly we bookmarked a page.

On Chrome?

Explorer?

Firefox?

This happened to me on Friday. I found a crazy-super-great-holy-cow-this-is-gold type blog post from a user-experience expert and decided that I would use it as inspiration for a blog post this week. I mean come on, folks, it was Friday at roughly 4:55 pm, so what did I do? I just clicked bookmark on one of my browsers and Sayonara! I signed off and closed down my computer for the weekend. Cut to Monday morning about an hour ago.  I remember the precious link I bookmarked.... somewhere. Right? I did bookmark it, right? Well, I just spent the last 45 minutes looking for that link to absolutely no avail.

That's when I realized that I needed to find a tool that would help me organize all the important data and articles I come across on the web that will help me with certain clients as well as provide inspiration for future blog posts.

Enter Utopic.

There are endless tools that help to curate information, but Utopic's user-friendly interface and easy-on-the-eyes design makes it my personal favorite.

You can sign up for this visual social bookmarking platform using Twitter or Facebook, and you are immediately prompted to download a plug-in that will add a small heart icon at the top of your Chrome browser.

Seemlessly Integrated 

By simply clicking that heart, Utopic will essentially bookmark the page to your own personalized board. You can create different tags as well as folders to keep your information accessible and easy to regulate.

Aside from organizing your own links, you can also search the Utopic platform to see what other people are finding interesting. Like Twitter, you can search trending #hashtags as well as keywords to discover other links.