Do you use your bookmarks?

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dmnEPC

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I have been bookmarking web pages for maybe 10 years, I have maybe 10,000 bookmarks, maybe more. But I've started to realize I almost never go back and use them. Part of it is due to chrome hiding them away, making it faster to do a new search. List bookmarking a waste of time? Or has it become obsolete?
 


I'm actually with OP on this. I literally never use bookmarks and always type in the direct address - I use my memory.
 
JulianTrueFlynn said:
Ya I use my bookmarks all the time. I have it organized by groups though so it's not too difficult to look through.

I don't have 10,000 either though
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Mine are grouped by folders. But even with that the search is typically how I pull them up. But even then you still need to remember how you saved it. Most page titles are not ideal
 
dmnEPC said:
Part of it is due to chrome hiding them away, making it faster to do a new search.
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And this tiny little fact is the whole reason I don't use Chrome as my main browser.

I can't believe they havn't figured out that users want a vertical bookmarks bar yet. I mean, how hard is it.

If someone has a WORKING extension that will allow for a vertical bookmark by in Chrome, and I'm not talking about those shitty ones where you have to click a button to have it pop up, please do tell.
 
Once in a while I'll bookmark an informational page or something if its not a site I generally frequent. Normally though, I just type in the URL and it auto-fills in which site I am wanting to go to.
 
No never, I've been backing them up every time I've reformatted for over a decade and I never ever ever look back at them. I was thinking of checking out this "xmarks" service to keep track but I'd probably never use it.
 
On all my browsers including Chrome i use the bookmark-bar that it comes with organized with some drop-down folders. I use them constantly. The non-bookmark bar bookmarks I have are not used very often though if ever - they get more cluttered too.
 
I use a combination of my most visited tabs on my chrome start page and my bookmarks bar. Still use the Ctrl+L and type URL plenty but sometimes if it's a specific page or dashboard then a bookmark is better. I also have a folder called "Music" that I never even open, but if I'm listening to pandora / songza and hear a song I like, I'll google the title and artist and save that SERP page for later reference.
 
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Ideally I'd want something like bookmarks that is a bit more visual. Not sure if that exists.

I can pin 12 websites on Safari, but that isn't really enough. I have sites that I mean to visit, but its mostly an out of sight, out of mind thing.
 
I bookmark sites so that it auto-fills faster on chrome.

for cool articles that are good references, I use evernote.
 
My bookmarks mostly just consist of a few CMS log-in URLs for clients since I can't keep track of which random url belongs to who.

I also have a bookmarks folder titled "Read Later" that I dump stuff into when I want to read it (or watch it, listen to it, etc.) at some point but don't want to stop in the middle of what I'm doing and get distracted. After I consume it, I usually delete the bookmark.

Other than that, I put everything else into a folder that just accumulates tons of shit over time. When I remember to look in this folder just to poke around and see what's there, it usually eats up a couple of hours.
 
I book mark tons of shit. Probably have as many, or more, than the OP I'm guessing. I do try to organize them from time to time, but the task is insurmountable. And when I think back, a lot of what I've bookmarked is obsolete techniques that should just be deleted.

I really use bookmarks when I'm doing research for a project though. I'll create a folder, and sub folders, for different aspects of a project and will review back to those often until the project is done.
 
I have a similar problem...until I came to a realization.

Why do you bookmark?

There are a few reasons why I do it.

1. To read something later
2. Interesting read that you want to reference
3. Website logins etc
4. Website you visit a lot (ex. facebook, wickedfire...maybe adsense...spotify)
5. Misc stuff

So here is what I did

For #1: I clip it to evernote and it goes to my read later folder
For #2: I clip it to evernote and it goes to my reference folder
For #3: I bookmark it under a folder. So if you have 7 projects, with website logins, analytics etc it's all in one place.

For projects that are rather involved like a massive website that I am about to lunch I create a new user in Google Chrome. I store all relevant bookmarks there along with any plugins I might need.

For #4 it goes to my bookmark bar. I try to trim it often. Since these are website I visit a lot I find it convenient to have them there. I also make sure to just use the favico button and no description. If I see the little flaming guy I know it's wickedfire, I don't need to have the name of the website displayed

For #5: This is just waste. I have a Misc bookmark folder. Once in a while I visit it and make a decision. Is it #1 or #2? I clip it. Is it useless or something I have not referenced for years? Delete it
 
If there was a website that let you visually see all the sites you want to visit often, basically in a similar, clean form like app icons, would anyone else use it, or is that just me? Been debating building this..
 
Gambit said:
Ideally I'd want something like bookmarks that is a bit more visual. Not sure if that exists.

I can pin 12 websites on Safari, but that isn't really enough. I have sites that I mean to visit, but its mostly an out of sight, out of mind thing.
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A lot of people use Pinterest like this.

Personally, I've always been fond of Delicious. It's old, but I like saving things where they're integrated with the browser, tagged by topic, saved remotely, and easily accessed from other computers. Between the tagging and the search function, it's quite easy to find things later.
 
Don't use bookmarks at all. Never really felt a use for them. If I remember that I need to go back to a piece of content, I'll just Google it and find it pretty quick. If I bookmarked everything I find interesting, I'd have too many for it to be useful to go over every now and then.

Stuff I "need" to read/do something about, I put in Evernote, as a couple other people suggest.
 
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