Ask HN: How many bookmarks do you have?

I had ~3300 bookmarks and just decided to bulk delete half of them that lived in random folders. Now i'm at 1400. Most of them are CS/tech/coding related. When I save a link I make myself believe its something important that I'll find useful in the future. The truth is I don't even know what is in my bookmarks anymore and I hardly ever go back to manually check what javascript article I bookmarked one year ago. Nowadays, I just use firefox awesome bar that, by default, searches through my bookmarks when I type something to search for. I also find tags much better at organizing bookmarks than folders and I'm happy firefox supports this feature.

Twenty, all in a single menu (I have set up no submenus), and all with a single word name in order that I can easily type it to use with a shell script that I use to launch the browser with loading a bookmark (the shell script uses SQLite to make a list of bookmarks if no name is given, as well as using SQLite to find the URL of the bookmark if the name is given). Occasionally I delete some, and occasionally I add some. I don't use the bookmark toolbar.

On Pinboard.in I have 12983 bookmarks.

Many of them are recipes. Some are items on my wishlist. Lots of them are news articles, some essays. Lots of them are guides/tutorials howtos for Bash, Python, Linux, networking etc.

The recipes I use from time to time.

The IT-related ones I consult from time to time whenever I need them.

And since Pinboard allows for fulltext search it's quite easy to find stuff when I need it.

[Edit: One can also pay extra to enable archiving, so when articles are removed from the WWW one can still access them via Pinboard.]

I had about 2k before clean up.

Cleaning up here is what i realized. 1. i am a full stack developer and i learned that any technical documentation i bookmark is mostly the first link on my google search. 2. while cleaning up most of the bookmarks were 404's lol. 3. i have a professional browser and a hobby browser. This helps me focus better and differentiate between bing watching youtube/9gag/ vs work stuff. 4. i saved forums links about a lot of stuff that i won't be opening in ages. It is like a Compulsive hoarding behavior.

Keeping things clean organized helps guys, do give it a try.

Most likely between 100 to 200 bookmarks. The majority of these bookmarks are sorted and placed in folders. It is just useful links for me - I do revisit them