How are your bookmark folders looking these days? 🤔

A) Neatly sorted into folders like a digital librarian
B) 396 links dumped into a folder called “Mess”
C) A glorious disaster that still gets the job done

#Bookmarks #Vivaldi #Browser #Apps #Tech

@Vivaldi Mostly option A. There are a couple of folders that I need to clear & organize.

@Vivaldi

A - Though I would like a better way to organize them.

@Vivaldi AAA, since the invention of bookmark folders. 😎
@Vivaldi Definetely C.
IMO it needs a massive redesign.
@Vivaldi
Bookmarks? I don't need them. I simply leave websites open that I want to visit again. 🤓
@top @Vivaldi
Really?
I would have been dead ☠️ and burried 🪦 now if I would have done like you: I have 603 "alive" bookmarks and 103 deleted. And there are coming more and more everyday! 🗯️
@Vivaldi Mostly A, but I've reserved a spot at the very end for mass-dumping until I get around to also sort those out so it's fully A again, then the cycle repeats. But I can find my stuff.

@Vivaldi Mostly A.

Fun fact: my bookmarks folders comes from IE, imported in Opera, imported in Firefox, imported in Vivaldi. I still have bookmarks from MS from IE5.5 from an old PC running Windows ME (so some of them are 25 years old!). ^^

@Vivaldi
Mine are pretty well organized. Years ago, I started doing something different. I store many URLs in my file system, in the folders associated with various projects. So my project contains documents, drawings, bibliography, etc. plus a URLs folder in which I store the relevant URLs as individual files. Just double-click to open. I did this because I was annoyed at having to transfer bookmarks when switching to a better browser. The bookmarks I keep in Vivaldi now are just the ones I use very frequently, as in multiple times per week. Here’s hoping Vivaldi is going to be my browser of choice *forever*.
@koteisaev
@Vivaldi I don't have bookmark folders because they would be E) Empty.
@Vivaldi I would say A but mostly D :)
@Vivaldi, A, some direct icons for the most used and the rest in folders, no other possibilities with bookmarks from half the internet.
@Vivaldi vivaldi recently has a much slower speed on both mac and windows when clicked.....I got top-rated (and expensive )SSD already and ltsc/newest OS.
@Vivaldi
A!
And I'm very glad they work out well in the mobile version, too.
For more frequently visited sites I also use the speed dial, and the absolute favourites have their own link on the home screen
@Vivaldi Option A. With a slight turn to option C. in a certain folder named „later“ 😇 (but the most part really is option A).
@moskitokoenig @Vivaldi
I have a folder (actually two) called "Later" too!
But #VivaldiBrowser manages to get me through everything! ❤️
@Vivaldi
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Mostly thanks to #VivaldiBrowser's bookmark management system. And to Speed Dials too!

@ThePfromtheO The best @Vivaldi bookmarks feature, IMHO, is the automatic saving of #Description field with the #meta tags from the bookmarked #webpage !

For example, even if i save it quickly, i can easily find again this bookmarked page https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/ecologie/290525/ecologie-le-grand-retour-en-arriere, only typing "pesticide" or "a69" in the url bar or bookmark search field 👍
No other browser allows this...

Écologie : le grand retour en arrière

Réintroduction de pesticides dangereux, mégabassines, passage en force à l’Assemblée nationale et sur l’A69 : sur la défense des écosystèmes, de la biodiversité et de la santé, la marche arrière est enclenchée. Dans « À l’air libre », échange sur ce grand retour de bâton écologique, qui n’est peut-être pas inéluctable.

Mediapart
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C - most of the bookmarks being imported from other browsers that i dont use anymore
@Vivaldi
I think option A.
Btw why is the horizontal tab scrolling broken in the last snapshot 7.5.3704.3?
@Vivaldi Bookmarking this for later 😉 - I'm unorganized as can be.

@Vivaldi It's A, except I just imported four older backups so I have approximately five clones of bookmarks.

Will go through them with a bookmarks clean-up extension.

@Vivaldi From a scientific point of view (AFAIR) most people won't use web bookmarks any more.

From those who do, you can distinct three rough categories: filer (the ones with a folder hierarchy), piler (one folder or chaos) and spring cleaner (piler that do delete/file after a while).

Related to filers, you may be interested in the work
of Boardman et al who did some research with common folder hierarchies for emails, files, bookmarks and such probably 20 years ago.

Interested in more details? See the first chapters + references from the first PDF on https://karl-voit.at/tagstore/en/papers.shtml

HTH

/cc @thalskarth

#PIM

tagstore - White Papers

@publicvoit @Vivaldi @thalskarth just as s reference, here's another nice reference (by IBM research) about piling and search being superior to filing https://www.technologyreview.com/2011/05/20/194578/stop-organizing-your-e-mail-says-study/
Stop Organizing Your E-mail, Says Study

People who put incoming e-mails in folders are no better at finding them than those who simply use search.

MIT Technology Review

@WildEnte @Vivaldi @thalskarth Thanks.

I, too, am absolutely convinced that search is more efficient for retrieval tasks in general.

However, you need to differ between retrieval domains such as bookmarks, file system, emails, ... as they do have their specific properties. Therefore, you can hardly transfer things from mail to bookmarks or files.

And then there's the difference between what would be efficient and what people do or people think.

The latter should be influenced by education but I don't see much school content related to that.

And this is why I do courses, workshops, lectures, ... for grownups to teach efficient working with digital technology. Really the basics. I tell people how to use email after doing that for many years while working. We really do teach the wrong things in schools. 😞

https://karl-voit.at/pim-lecture-tug/

Additionally to that: some things can't be taught in school since it requires some business experience. But that's a different topic.

Join my PIM Lecture at TU Graz