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.

  • slazer2au
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    86 months ago

    You guys organise bookmarks? You don’t just throw them wherever and never use them again?

  • @MrOtherGuy@lemmy.world
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    66 months ago

    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.

  • @Malix@sopuli.xyz
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    46 months ago

    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.

  • @superfes@lemmy.world
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    36 months ago

    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.

  • @boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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    26 months ago

    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

  • @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    26 months ago

    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…

  • @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    26 months ago

    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.

    • El Barto
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      16 months ago

      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.

  • Ben
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    26 months ago

    I just tag them when I make them.

  • @Paragone@lemmy.world
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    -16 months ago

    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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