101–110 of 458 posts
Mostly just browser history, or I'll ddg it again as a fall-back. Doesn't work as well in Chrome (or im doing it wrong) but FF awesome bar seems to pull up the links I need within a few keystrokes the majority of the time.
I'm a little surprised that the majority of the answers here are Yes! I help my parents and my kids work with bookmarks but I have none myself; and I was beginning to think that bookmarks were primarily used by non-technical people. I guess I was wrong! Everything I need is a simple URL (like, my bank: usaa.com - why would I bookmark that?) or a quick Google search away. If I come across a deep link that's so importa…
"If I come across a deep link that's so important that I want to keep it, I email myself the link along with maybe a short description, and it will be searchable forever."
I have tons and tons of things that I probably could google/ddg search for, but were really difficult for me to find initially and that I know I would never find again. Some things, sure, no problem, and I search; other things no, I want to bookmark them because I'm not sure I'd find them again. Search engines are really not as perfect as I'd like them to be.
The other reason I have bookmarks is to kind of remind myself "hey remember this thing--you should look into it in more detail later. Like soon."
So I kind of have two sets of bookmarks. One are kind of like "recent things that I need to remember," sort of like a todo list, but or sites or reading, and then will delete quickly, and the others are references that were hard to find initially.
I could email myself things, but to me that's not easier, and it wouldn't help with reminders, because I'd have to go looking for them (if I have to search for it, it's out of sight, out of mind). I don't see the point of something like Pocket, because my browser already syncs across all my devices everywhere. I suppose I could save it to a text file that is synced across devices, or something on a note system, but it doesn't seem better than bookmarks. There was something else I tried that I don't even remember anymore, that in theory would be perfect, but it wouldn't let me organize them in a way that made sense (it insisted that things be sorted alphabetically or something like that).
I do think there could be something better, something that is kind of like synced bookmarks, something like a notes program, something like an RSS reader, but I haven't seen it yet. Ideally what I'd want is something that syncs across devices, allows me to bookmark things for reference or later reading, reminds me of "urgent links," basically acts as a news aggregator/rss feed reader, and gives me useful suggestions for new feeds, and is open source or at least has some sort of open API.
I've noticed recently--as in the last year--I've started using Google Keep kind of like how I use bookmarks, but that often is cumbersome in its own way.
I use the bookmark toolbar in Firefox, but I delete the text and leave the favicons so that I can fit ~50 bookmarks in one row. I also have folders containing bookmarks for particular categories, like "Work", "Stuff to watch", etc.
I just posted about doing this before I read your comment. I wondered if anyone else did the same as me. It started out as a way to fit more than a few bookmarks on the bar, then I realized that I recognized the icon faster than I could read the text, and squeezed all my most used bookmarks on there. Great minds do think alike! :-)
When I ran out of room on the bookmarks bar I just started organizing things into folders on the toolbar.
I'm a little surprised that the majority of the answers here are Yes! I help my parents and my kids work with bookmarks but I have none myself; and I was beginning to think that bookmarks were primarily used by non-technical people. I guess I was wrong! Everything I need is a simple URL (like, my bank: usaa.com - why would I bookmark that?) or a quick Google search away. If I come across a deep link that's so importa…
I can't google NDAed documentation or forum threads. I can't google stuff that's useful to a topic, but that I've forgotten about. Webcomics often have terrible search indexes - and even navigation - so I'll bookmark my place when archive binging exactly as I'd use a physical bookmark. I bookmark-bar things I open so frequently (JIRA views, trello boards, etc.) that I don't even want the overhead of googling / typing in the url. I bookmark difficult to google topics - e.g. I still can't re-locate the win8 user you need to grant read permissions to, to allow Win8 AppX/WinRT programs to bypass the sandbox to read files (so you don't have to pack game assets into each .appx build).
But I don't bookmark things I merely access quite frequently, like HN ;)
> If I come across a deep link that's so important that I want to keep it, I email myself the link along with maybe a short description, and it will be searchable forever.
Too much friction.
Of course, and I'm surprised many people don't. Chrome handles bookmarks well, automatically syncing them between different machines you are signed in on. I used to have them nicely organized into different folders but now it's a bit of a mess... It's especially useful to deal with tab explosion. Control+D and you can just save all your tabs in a single folder (and never look at them again.) The biggest problem is li…
- Things you want easy access to, but have annoying URLs, like your company's wiki page (Solved by Favorites/Bookmarks Bar or Dashboard)
- Things you want to finish looking at later (Solved by Read Later / Reminder)
- Things you want to keep track of, like blogs (Solved by Read Later / Reminder)
- Things you want to be able to find later (Solved by Full Text Search and Tags)
- Something you might want to see again, but not anytime soon (Solved by Personal Archive)
- Something you simply liked or are favoriting (Solved by Personal Archive)
- Note taking / Research (Solved by Tags and Boards)
- Idea inspiration (Solved by Tags and Boards)
- Things you want to show other people (Solved by Social)
- Things you want to get for yourself (Solved by Wishlist)
- Things you want other people to get for you (Solved by Wishlist)
My main problem with using bookmarks was that I rarely went back to them. Normal bookmarks are essentially a personal archive and google search usually finds things much better.
I realized there were a lot of bookmarks I'd like to go back to, I'd just forget about them. Maybe I'd like to read something when I got home from work, or maybe I wanted to check back in a week for an update (or release date), or I wanted to keep a list of items to show someone later (usually funny videos or gifs.) It was pretty difficult to do that no matter how I organized my folders or tagged things.
I eventually built my own bookmark site (https://www.mochimarks.com/landing) with all the features I wanted. The main features (apart from the expected tagging/full text search/browser integration/notes/etc...) were settable/automatic reminders, wishlists, and recommendations. Wishlists let you rank bookmarks. Recommendations could be new stuff from friends or the app could recommend that you look at stuff you liked that you hadn't visited in a while.
After having my app for a while, I've found I use bookmarks a lot more. I mostly use reminders and have a few stuff pop up to check each day. Reminders are killer for me. But when I'm bored I like to sort my wishlists. I don't use tags much... I really only use #Programming, #Interesting (usually really good articles), #Funny, #Music, #Blog, and #ArtBlog. I'll use the recommendation features to check on my blogs and to share links with my friends. I use Read Later a lot, but rarely actually go back and read things later. But when I do, I'm really glad the feature is there.