an intelligent bookmark is a collection of information , including an address for a document or other hyper - media enabled item bundled together with selected other information . the selected other information may be manually or automatically obtained from the document , the browser history leading up to the display of the document , user entered annotations , etc . a collection of intelligent bookmarks may be sorted and searched using the selected other information . intelligent bookmarks may be exchanged between users , and users may edit the bookmark content or in layers above the bookmark . users may rate the bookmarks . a complete system provides for creating , storing , accessing , editing , grouping , exchanging , and searching intelligent bookmarks locally and / or remotely via a server .