Do you use your bookmarks?

stefanie said:
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.
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That makes sense about Pinterest, that's close to how I would want it to be set. The social network distraction part about Pinterest kinda keeps me away though.

I've used delicious on and off, but it just wasn't quite doing it for me. It feels so left-brained like all the other bookmark options. But maybe there's more and I haven't jumped into all the features enough.

I want something more right-brained that includes:

-A Visual Image of each Site. Basically a 6x larger FavIcon.
-Something that I can tag each site by color(s), with each color representing something, and sites can be sorted by color.
-Each site can be simply clicked on, but you can also right-click and have a dropdown list of your favorite posts that you've saved from that site.
-Ability to save images and take screenshots. (searchable image text would be great too).

There's quite a few other features that would be nice, but just these alone would be enough to get me to use it.
 


lol.

I must have 5,000+. Like 100,000+ since I first got online.

I don't use any of them, really...

Only usage for bookmarks:

1. Bookmark a site so when I type it in Chrome autofills the rest of the url.

2. Bookmark Manager > Search > "Youtube". All of my favorite songs saved. Would be easier to just download, but meh.

3. Some random site I need to find a year later.

.....

Meh, bookmark regret.
 
WickedJoe said:
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.
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This is how I do it too. My bookmark bar is OCD & my 'other bookmarks' section is an episode of Hoarders.
 
I do and don't.

I never click on them, but they do feature in suggestions as I'm typing, so that's why / how I still use them.
 
I bookmark every useful resource I find on the web, and organize them like an obsessive-compulsive autist.
 
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I have a delicious bookmarklet for chromium which makes bookmarking a lot faster than going to delicious and adding the url
 
Although most of you find bookmarks a waste of time I use them every day.
I use bookmarks for domains and Evernote for single pages.
I have organized them in categories and sub-categories, something like: Blogs -> WebDev, Tools -> JavaScriptDebuggers, etc.
I find them in a fast way.
With logins I use iMacros and I have organized the macros with the same categories of bookmarks.

I have cleaned up all my bookamrks in january and from 5,000 now I have about 1,500.

Maybe I'm an extremist but I even sync my bookmarks with all the browsers I have with Transmute Pro.
 
Chrome is my main browser now, don't ever use bookmarks now.
Only time I use bookmarks is for firefox
 
Bookmarks can be a great way to setup pre-loaded sites that you use regularly.

I group bookmark folders based on tasks. I have folders with client sites, logins etc. Then I had folders based on use, like SEO, PPC, Social, PR, Outreach, and other work-related links. That way when I begin work on a new task whatever it may be, I can right-click open-all bookmarks in a new window and im off to the races.

For sites I frequent the most I am easily able to identify them by their favicon so i have a trimmed down version of a bookmarks toolbar with just site icons for easy access.

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One problem is that I'll go back to a bookmark and find the page or article no longer exists. There's something to be said for saving a web archive of the page of anything you find valuable.
 
pacman0r said:
For sites I frequent the most I am easily able to identify them by their favicon so i have a trimmed down version of a bookmarks toolbar with just site icons for easy access.

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Never thought to remove labels... gamechanger.
 
Use constantly. I really dislike spending the time researching something then having to re-find everything when needed again. Everything is organized into a logical folder hierarchy. When needed right click the folder and open everything tomorrow or in December.

As an aside I never could get a tagging system to be worth the bother.
 
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