FarraigePlaisteaċ (sé/é)How many bookmarks do you have? Do you use most of them?
disregardable40-50. The recipes are the only ones I check regularly. The others are just references.
That’s a nice number. And if that includes recipes then even better!
Why search for http? Do you have Gopher or Usenet links too?
The export contains all the bookmarks in one file. So searching for ‘http’ gives a total count quickly. I do have gemini:// links too, but not in that browser :)
I never was any good at using bookmarks but I currently I have over 100 tabs.
TrackinDaKrakenI never leave tabs open. Rarely, when I’m researching something, I might have ten or fifteen open, but when I’m done I close them all. I can’t stand them all sitting up there, mocking me.
Who needs coffee when there is the anxiety of 100 open tabs! I have a friend who (somehow) only ever has one tab open. I only have 3 tabs open now, but I just noticed that I have several tab groups I completely forgot about.
I have close to 100. They’re like books on a shelf. If I read a good book I put it on the shelf even though I’m not likely to ever read it again.
That’s interesting. A lot of mine probably fall into that category. I’m exporting them to a HTML file that I can browse like a website.
ADHD here too. Don’t know why I even bother lol
What’s a bookmark here? Like the browser favorites?
Yes, web browser bookmarks (or favourites).
In my desktop browser I have about sixty between my quick dial, and the menu bar.
I visit about 10 of them every day, and I visit most of them at some point during the week. I have folders on the menu bar for long-term storage, but individual bookmarks on the menu bar are short-term, ones I’ll want for a few days or weeks but know I’ll get rid of when they’ve served their purpose. But, now that I look at it, some of the individual…
You know what? It all makes sense to me, I know where everything is, and I’m happy.
That is the funniest comment termination I’ve ever read :D
It sounds like you have a very clear system. That’s what I want to get to and am getting to.
I have been very diligent about saving bookmarks to the relevant folders, so on the surface everything looked organised. Only when I did the export I realised I had way more info than I could possibly ever consume. I’m down to under 300 now with the rest living in a HTML page/dashboard I can visit if I ever need to.
Kristell@FarraigePlaisteach Around 120, I use most of them at least once a year. There are a few (mostly obituaries) that I rarely go to, but like having around.
That’s a sane number. I’ll use you as a role model :)
Teach me
About 10 per year. That’s good going. I will be exercising maximum restraint from now on myself.
Probably less than 20 or so. I don’t like clutter, so only my frequented sites and resources that aren’t in the launcher are bookmarked. I also often delete them if they’ve been unused for a while.
That’s incredible. I use quarter of that number for bus routes and local grocery shopping alone.
About 50 and i use none of them, what the hell are you doing with 1.9k bookmarks my guy?
I’m asking myself the same question! Some are for my career, such as portals for best practices etc. Many are for coding shortcuts I forget frequently (eg git cheat sheet ). I have a lot of fact-checking articles I like to keep hand to counter online disinformation. It seems I’ve been bookmarking videos as documentaries to watch later, I’m just realising. The rest fall into personal admin (banking, bus routes, local grocery delivery), languages and health supplements.
Honestly I just wanted to delete everything and start again!
My old shower thought was: Now that Google sucks, people will go back to saving bookmarks.
I used to bookmark, then I figured I could just Google and find everything again easily so what’s the point, but it might be time for bookmarks again.
There are alternatives to Google, too. But I think anymore, once per year I’ll export my bookmarks to a local web page and wipe the slate clean in the browser.
HuudaHarkitenKagi.com is alright.
Because you have to pay for it (or create new email addresses to get a trial period)
I think there’s definitely something to this. Kinda like a cache, it’s nice to have some pages that you know are interesting or useful in someway that you can find that little bit easier.
But the in-browser search for bookmarks is pretty limited. It just checks the title and url and maybe some tags. I know (or think?) there are some programs out there that index and/or archive your bookmarks and let you do full text search through them like a proper search engine.
ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠A couple hundred, and I use them. A few comics I share whenever they’re relevant, some of the maintenance pages for my personal site, arrival times for my nearest bus stops, minecraft server maps, and the rest fall into three broad categories:
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culinary recipes I’ve made in the past
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game wiki pages and gameFAQs guides
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shopping lists / gift ideas
These are all organized into folders and subfolders. Well, not all. But mostly.
Thanks for the detailed comment. I have folders for shopping and recipes too. The shopping has lots of sub folders. Some of those things took ages to find (such as off-brand replacement air filters).
About 100 use each at least ounce a month even if only to check the site. Use them to keep track of many sites and interests.
At work I have what I need and trim what I don’t use. It’s organized and in a good enough state to share with new employees.
At home I don’t remember what half the bookmarks are for, and the other half are for long-abandoned projects. No idea how many there are
I can relate to the barely recognisable bookmarks! Having a distinct work machine sounds good. Part of my problem is that I have one machine for work and personal use.
queerlilhayseedI have about 20 sites bookmarked with just their favicon that are sort of “first order access”, though I use some of them more regularly than others. At random intervals, one will catch my eye and I’ll think “I haven’t used that in a while, I don’t think I need that up there anymore” and I’ll remove it, usually while I’m at it I’ll remove others too. I have about a dozen folders too, these are more long-term storage, e.g. I have one for all my financial institutions (not to brag but I have several student loan servicers 😣), one for network security tools, one for rare media finding tools, etc. These are used less often and they usually get put there after I’ve had to go look them up several times. I tend to keep it well pruned though, I think I have maybe 200 distinct sites bookmarked.
Apparently 4614. Several hundred are probably duplicates tho. I’ll bookmark interesting pages that I see at work (since I usually don’t have time to read them) and occasionally import them. Like others have said, that’s built up over many years. And in general I’ve tried to be more of a ‘bookmark it and close the tab already’ kind of person lately.
It’s all various levels of hoarding and to-dos I know I’ll never get to, but pretty often I do find myself enjoying browsing through my bookmarks and remembering neat stuff I saw in passing or articles I wanted to read. It’s also fun sorting them out to folders, even tho I know they’ll never be properly organized nor especially useful if they were.
Now that you mention it, I think part of the reason I ended up with so many is from trying to not keep tabs open. I also enjoy sorting them into folders. I don’t know why but it’s one of the more enjoyable things I’ve done on a computer in some time!
529 in one browers, 51 in the other. I use half of them throughout the year.
e0qdkLooks like roughly a dozen or two (from a quick check) as far as actual bookmarks go. I use most of them, though there’s a few I should probably prune at this point. I have a lot of tabs in tab groups instead though (500-ish?). That works better for me with frequent screen sharing for work calls (keeping URL bar suggestions restricted to bookmarks only), and matches my way of thinking about projects I’m working on better as well.
I also save pages with SingleFile that I want to preserve for future reference instead of bookmarking – no point hoping they’ll continue to be online and accessible when I can just keep my own copy locally… Looks like I’ve archived roughly 200 or so pages in the last year like that.
Somehow I find it extremely funny to read the low number of bookmarks followed by the huge number of tabs.
Seriously though, I get that when you find something that matches the way my brain works then that’s what I’ll stick with too.
Thanks for putting me on to SingleFile. I use Wallabag locally but I’m not sure if I’ll stick with it.
Like 5.
If they don’t all fit on the bookmark toolbar, there’s too many, and someone’s getting purged.
Lethal. I’m jealous!
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 I have exactly 9 and I use 8 of them daily. The 9th is a bread recipe.
elephantiumI don’t have many. I mostly abuse the tab bar instead. Naughty, I know.
Those tabs haunt me like disapproving ancestors.
Mood.
I’ve got a lot of YT bookmarks in my browser (I have no YT account, so I track my favourite channels this way), and maybe 20-30 other links in total.
I do that too, for the same reason.
PikaI have 440+ but they are leftover from when i actually used them, I haven’t used the bookmark feature in at least 12-15 years now.
I have a feeling most of them are from an old addon that I had, because I think it abused the bookmark feature in order to keep browser sessions.
Some of the old ones have been interesting to rediscover.
Why would I want to dig through folders of bookmarks when I can type 3 characters in the url and have my browser suggest the right page for me?
My answer: some bookmarks represent a significant time investment, for example, finding a specific spare part (3rd-party) for an appliance at home. I’ll bookmark that because I don’t want to do all that searching and comparing again.