Firefox

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

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.

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.

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.

Eventually you may come to the realization that organizing bookmarks is a waste of time

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

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..

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.

I just tag them when I make them.

Stuff I use often goes into folders in the bookmarks toolbar

Poorly.

With raindrop.io free tier. Folders and tags. Only a few bookmarks are permanently in the browser

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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