Getting Started

What is Sesamr?
Sesamr is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. For particular, Sesamr can give recommendations based on bookmarks and allow users to manage. With emphasis on the power of the community, Sesamr greatly improves people's experience to discover, remember and share on the Internet.
Things you can do with Sesame
Bookmark any site on the Internet, and get to it from anywhere
Instead of having different bookmarks on every computer, Sesamr makes it easy to have a single set of bookmarks kept in sync between all of your computers. Even if you're not on a computer of your own, you can still get to your bookmarks on the Sesamr website.
Get bookmarks that just for you
The recommendation mechanism of Sesamr can gave you bookmarks that you might interest in. You can get recommendation based on all your bookmarks or just a part of them.
Share your bookmarks, and get bookmarks in return
As you explore the site and find interesting users, you can use our Network features to keep track of the Sesamr users you find most interesting.
Discover the most useful and interesting bookmarks on the web
Sesamr is an easy tool which SAVE and DISCOVER the best bookmarks just for you. By click the 'Discover' button in the main menu, you can get new and useful bookmarks that recommended to you based on your personal collection. The more you saved, the better you get! As a new user without any bookmarks, Sesamr will recommendate you some popular urls.
See what's hot with Sesamr users by checking out our popular tags. By looking at the popular bookmarks for a tag, you'll be able to discover the most interesting bookmarks on the topics you're most interested in. Browse bookmarks on just about anything from the best programming tips to the most popular travel sites, all in an easy to read format.
Saving a Bookmark
Depending on which buttons you've added to your browser, you can click the "Tag" or "Bookmark this on Sesamr" button to save a new bookmark. Regardless of the buttons you've chosen, you'll see the following fields.
  1. URL: The URL field is simply the address of the page you're bookmarking. This should be filled out for you. Only change this if you know what you're doing.
  2. Title: If you're using one of our bookmarking tools, this will be prefilled with the title of the page you're saving. Feel free to edit this in any way that makes sense to you.
  3. Notes: Here's where you may want to write some additional info for yourself or to let others know why you bookmarked this page.
  4. Tags: Enter one or more tags separated by spaces here. They are optional, but we suggest using them, as they make your bookmarks much easier to organize and navigate. For more on tags, read our tags section.
Once a bookmark is saved, this is how it looks in Sesamr:
Try it out!
The best way to learn how to use Sesamr is to use Sesamr. We designed it to be fun and easy to use, and we hope you find that to be the case. If you need help with anything, check out our help pages or contact us.