Editing Furl (section)

==Features==
{{refimprovesection|date=January 2019}}
Furl enabled members to bookmark, annotate, and share web pages. ''Topics'' were used to categorize saved sites, similar to the [[Tag (metadata)|tagging]] feature of other social websites. Additionally, a user could write comments, save clippings, assign each bookmark a rating and [[Keyword (Internet search)|keywords]] (which are given greater weight while searching), and have an option of private or public storage for each topic or item archived. 

Considered one of its main features,<ref>{{Cite web
|url=https://techcrunch.com/?p=30
|title=Profile:Furl
|author=[[Michael Arrington]], [[TechCrunch]]
|date=19 June 2005
|accessdate=2007-07-07 |format= }}</ref>
Furl also privately archived a complete copy of the HTML of each page that a user bookmarks, making it accessible even if the original content was modified or removed, an antidote for [[link rot]]. This also allowed full text searches to be made within the archive. However, as highlighted under limitations below, images that were embedded using links were not archived with user's copy of the HTML page, so images sometimes disappeared over time. To avoid claims of [[Copyright infringement|copyright violations]], this archived copy was visible only to the member who bookmarked the page. Other users were directed to the publisher's site, where the content could be viewed depending on membership requirements and privacy settings.

Users could see lists of other users who have ''furled'' a URL, and read their comments (if made public) to find users who share interests, supporting [[folksonomy]].  A dynamic recommendation list was automatically generated for each user based on the sites already saved by him or her and other users with similar interests.  Lists of the most popular items for today, this week, and this month (and by topic) were also available.  It was possible to subscribe to a user's archive (or to a set of topics in a user's archive) to get daily email notifications whenever new items were filed.  

Furl allowed bookmarks to be imported from (and exported to) [[Internet Explorer]], [[Mozilla]]/[[Firefox]], and [[Delicious (website)|Delicious]]; and also supported exporting of the entire saved archives to [[ZIP (file format)|ZIP]] formats, and export metadata to [[XML]] format. There were other import/export functions, including various citation formats (MLA, APA, Chicago, CBE, BibTeX, and RIS/EndNote).<ref>{{Cite web
 |url         = http://furl.net/doc/features#Interoperability
 |title       = LookSmart's Furl - features
 |accessdate  = 2008-03-17
 |url-status     = dead
 |archiveurl  = https://web.archive.org/web/20080311040217/http://www.furl.net/doc/features#Interoperability
 |archivedate = 2008-03-11
}}</ref>
Toolbars and [[bookmarklet]]s are available for Internet Explorer and Firefox to quicken the bookmarking process.