Pearltrees Review : A social bookmarking tool

I've been using Pearltrees.com for about 6 months now. They define themselves as "a social library.  They add, "It lets you cultivate your interests. Collect, organize and share everything you like." What I liked about them is that you could organize your interests(websites, articles) in a mindmap kind of way. At first I was really  excited because 

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enjoyed the tree-like structure and I could see my interests. But I kept adding websites and articles, and before I knew I realized that things were getting messy and that this tool is not very practical if you keep adding your interests on a daily basis.

I would recommend Xmarks or Evernote or even savethis.clickability.com. They're less impressive visually, but you can organize your interests and bookmarks the old fashioned way, in my opinion a more practical way, in folders. I would be surprized if Pearltrees lasts another five years without any modification. My advice would be : give it a try, but only if you're a curious geek. For serious bookmarking you should choose other tools out there. To be fair, one aspect I haven't mentioned about Pearltrees is that you can share your interests easily with other people. It's a social bookmarking tool, but still, it gets cluttered too quickly.