How to manage bookmarks? [closed]

Question

I have 981 bookmarks and about 30 to 40 folders in my firefox browser. Now,they become very difficult to manage. I searched "bookmark management" etc in google but I can't find useful tutorial or guidelines to follow.

I've been looking for answers for a long time. I tried Xmakrs ReaditLater lace. But they couldn't help me organize my bookmarks. Do you have any tips or suggestions on how to manage your bookmarks? In what situation you want to create a tag instead of a folder?

Thanks

Answer 1

delicious.com

Answer 2

I have tried a number of bookmark managers and I found that Google Bookmarks works best for me. It is very fast, has a simple and intuitive interface and a great search to easily find your bookmarks. In fact, with Google Bookmarks you can stop trying to put everything into a folder type structure and just quickly tag items. Then you can use Google's excellent search to quickly find what you are looking for. If you do try out Google Bookmarks make sure you drag the little box at the bottom of the screen (called a bookmarklet) to your favorites toolbar (or if using IE you should install the Google toolbar). This makes it very easy to bookmark new pages.

Answer 3

Xmarks is one of the best bookmark manager.

Answer 4

This isn't programming related, so I've voted to close, but regardless, I use delicious (+ a combination of something I wrote). Quite trivial.

Answer 5

I use a combination of Delicious & Diigo.

Answer 6

Though all the rage is tagging your bookmarks, I find this cumbersome -- even when tags are automatically generated -- when doing intensive research and bookmarking pages at a fast rate. Searching via tags can also be perplexing as I sometimes forget what terms I tagged under.

Therefore, I structure my bookmarks into the following seven broad categories:

• essentials: email, homepages, blogs, web accounts, family, health, TTDs, menus, follow up required, references (dictionaries, calculators, wikis, etc ...)
• interesting: to read later, hobbies, music, tech tips,
• money: work, investments, shopping related, banking, paypal, amazon, shopping reviews,
• ideas: forecasts, business ideas, opportunities
• project 1: current project-related pages
• project 2: current project-related pages
• [chronological] (by month, and to be sorted later)

With the above system, everything can be neatly filed away and easily located. Obviously, anyone can adapt the above to their own lifestyle and situation.

A couple of important rules I make is:

1. Never go more than two sub-folders deep! There lies the difference between being a collector and being practical.
2. Set aside 15-20 mins a week to sort through the unsorted and to throw out useless/ outdated links.
3. Once they're all in order, make sure they are synched online with a trustworthy service like XMarks or Google Bookmarks and that you have a backup.

As a side-note, my GMail account labels are aligned with the above with the exception that currently GMail labels, as far as a I know, can't be sub-categorized. So, instead, I use a dewey decimal-type system (numbering before the label) to make the structure clearer.

Hope this helps.

Answer 7

Opera Link works for me.

Opera Link is a simple way to make browser information available from anywhere — such as your bookmarks, Speed Dial and even passwords.

Answer 8

There is no tutorial how to manage bookmarks as each person has their own folder hierarchy and bookmarks preferences.

It simply can't be expressed via tutorials since there are way too many factors.

I have for example:

Webstuff

• Blogs & How to's
• Webdesign & -developing
  • Fonts
  • How-To
  • Ajax, JS, JQ
  • CSS, XHTML

Hardware

• CPU
  • Intel
  • AMD
• HDD
• Mixed
• Guides
• Pricechecks

Software

• Portable Apps
• Ebooks

Blogs

• Medicine
• Art & Graphic
• Economy
• Technology
• Software
• Programming

and much, much more...

As you can probably see there's simply no way a tutorial can tell me how to effectively manage my bookmarks, since I am comfortable with this structure and can find what I need almost immediately.

Answer 9

Well, ... I'm not far from you in view of number of bookmarks. Currently have about 3000+ in FF, in no particular order (staggering really).

The strategy is this:
- every once in a while, I just put them export them to a html file, and backup it somewhere with a date on it (let's face it, from all those bookmarks you're actually using maybe 1% of them regularly)
- every blog and such, goes from the bookmarks list and into google reader - that way, I watch it for a while, after which, it either stays there or gets deleted permanently
- for searching html files there are various solutions, I just simply grep it
- the few ones I visit regularly (bookmarks, not blogs) go into the "new" firefox toolbar (always the same ones) after exporting the others

Answer 10

I'm using a simple strategy for keeping bookmarks.

Back ago I was storing bookmarks in a hierarchy, but this proved to be not very handy in terms of searching.

Nowadays I'm storing bookmarks by tagging them like this:

tags: keyword1, keyword2, ..., keywordN [bookmark URL]

Now it is much easier to search through them (I shall recall only one keyword at least). Now I can store them in a flat structure like a plain text file, and I still keep the option to store them in a hierarchy (a feature that is provided by outliners) if I would need to.

Answer 11

A very convenient way to manage bookmarks http://www.ezeehomepage.com Set the page as your homepage or download it and all your favorite links are available immediately on launch of your browser

Answer 12

Bookmark Manager v4.0.6