Traditional bookmarks have been a crucial method of navigating the web essentially since browsers have existed. The ability to save groups of URLs was incorporated into Mosaic, the 1993 browser that popularized the web, and the feature has lasted through the modern era.

Despite significant advances in both technology and design, many modern browsers still retain the original look and feel of Mosaic. Although innumerable advances have been made to distance newer browsers from the one that started it all, at least one feature has remained relatively consistent: bookmarks.

We Love Our Bookmarks…

Bookmarks have long been an essential component of most users’ experience on the web. Aside from accessing sites through search engines or direct URLs, bookmarks provide shortcuts to sites that users browse on a regular basis.

In Google Chrome, much like in Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer and the other popular browsers, these bookmarks are displayed in the same manner: through the bookmarks bar. This typically consists of one line of text (and/or icons) in a horizontal bar below the address bar and above the web page. Users can save their own links to webpages, so that they may more easily access them with a single click. If you’re using a computer in 2014, you probably already know what I’m talking about. But here’s an example of mine (boring/potentially embarrassing bookmarks included):

This makes things somewhat convenient, but the feature has still yet to be perfected. It’s fairly ridiculous that, in the past 20 years, the design and function of bookmarks have barely changed at all.

Endless Lists…

Even when links in the bookmarks bar are organized well, the way they are visually presented can make them difficult to navigate. When I’m searching through my Music News folder, for instance, I typically start at the top and then work my way down. That looks like this:

Because I have so many bookmarks saved in that folder, I don’t usually make it through all of the links. I also sometimes forget about certain links that are located further down on the list.

The Wibki Way

Wibki was designed in order to revolutionize the way we browse the web. It’s essentially a bookmarking tool, but it’s one of the few services that takes an innovative approach to the way bookmarks can work.

Wibki’s “Discover” tab, for instance, offers a regularly updated list of the best sites from around the web, giving you a constant feed of new things to check out based on your interests. The “Profile” tab also offers unique insights as to how you are using the web and can more effectively browse it.

Unlock the Web!

In terms of Music — my primary and most often-used folder on my Google Chrome’s bookmarks bar— Wibki automatically integrated a lengthy list of related sites when I claimed that I liked Music as part of my initial profile set up.

I was already familiar with some of those sites, but others — such as Lyrics N Music and Serendip — were introduced to me by Wibki.

Unleash Your Web and Share It with the World!

In addition to the Wibki-created, general Music group in my Favorites section, I also created a “Music News” section that mimics the bookmarks folder I created from within my browser. Here’s a preview of that:

As you can see, the Music News group in my Favorites section on Wibki is similar to the Music News folder on my bookmarks bar. The major difference is that Wibki makes all of the icons visible at the same time, and the visual display as well as the aforementioned additional Wibki features enhance the experience. If I want to rearrange any items, all I have to do is drag them. If I want to add sites to this group, I simply need to click once using the Wibki Chrome extension.

It’s Your Web!

Visualizing your bookmarks the way Wibki presents them may seem like a minor change to the traditional bookmarks bar, but it’s a truly revolutionary method of organizing the web and the way in which you interact with your favorite sites.