I want to better organize my bookmarks, but I got a lot of them and even if I already tried to be a bit more organized, they look awful to me. I try to organize them by category and by folder, but still I don’t want to have 100 folders of 1 bookmark.
You guys organise bookmarks? You don’t just throw them wherever and never use them again?
I don’t. Pretty much everything just goes to other bookmarks. When I want to use them I’ll just type
*to urlbar , type something about it and Firefox usually finds the bookmark I wanted.deleted by creator
For the most part: Important everyday bookmarks go to the bookmark-toolbar directly, everything else goes to few top-level directories in bookmark toobar: games, software, hardware, wishlist, media, work
the directories are then further sectioned into subfolders, eg games->gamename and so forth.
Sometimes I do wish the directories would just automatically alphabetize themselves, but oh well.
I personally just delete all of them, and never think about bookmarks ever again.
I’ve found that I never used them after a few weeks, or months, certainly not years, my history has worked for company URLs, I just never used bookmarks, and it was a busy mess.
I find it easier to just use the pages I use and never bookmark anything anymore.
Eventually you may come to the realization that organizing bookmarks is a waste of time
I have tidy folders for stuff, 5 categories, 10 subcategories often with sub-sub-categories.
And all the rest gets just dumped into the bookmarks toolbar.
I wish firefox would allow to multi-select them to cut-paste multiple ones.
I am fine with just using search, but it is a mess
I have a bookmark bar and good intentions at first. But in the end most of them are under the >> on the far right side of the bookmark bar in no particular order…
I gave up on them a long time ago. I came to realize that anything that I bookmarked never got reopened once the internet turned into a bunch of data silos. Now I store everything I might want to see again in Pocket. On the rare occasion that I need to find something again, I find it via another RIL app called ReadKit, as Pocket doesn’t search the entire archive but only what’s been pre-loaded / cached from scrolling the list. ReadKit searches everything. I like the Pocket service, but fuck the client app search.
Did Pocket get rid of its offline reading feature? Every time I try to open one of my saved articles with no internet connection, it tells me that nope, it’s not available without a connection.
That wasn’t the case a couple of years ago.
I just tag them when I make them.
Stuff I use often goes into folders in the bookmarks toolbar
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Poorly.
With raindrop.io free tier. Folders and tags. Only a few bookmarks are permanently in the browser
Hierarchical organizing is a balance:
You can do things the Apple way, & have only 3 choices at each level, but then you either need to dumb-down everything so it fits in a sane depth, discarding most potentials, XOR you run into near-infinite-depth…
Or you can do thing the other way, with wide selections at each level, and much fewer levels…
but then you get the visual/cognitive clutter…
Sometimes I do it so that at the top I’ve got something like…
- Humanities
- Geekery
- Art
- Apps
- Projects
- Books
- Articles
( I’m just doing this off the top of my head, hence the not-in-alphabetical-order-or-any-other-sane-grouping )
In other cases I might do this…
- Books___Technical
- Books___REF
- Books___Psychology
etc.
IOW, limit the number-of-things visible at each level,
AND fan-out enough so that I reduce the stuff at the next stage, see?
That balance is the whole key.
However you impliment your right-balance, it’s the most important thing in getting it usably-right for you, long-term.
It may require you to develop a couple new habits, like more-careful organizing, or like bearing something that you don’t like, aesthetically, but the reduced-waste-of-effort in having things FINDABLE can become significant, long-term, see?
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