Does anyone else use the bookmarks bar as a to-do list?

As the browser is by far my most used app, I find that bookmarking the current tab and describing the task with no more than a few words or even as little as a few chars, to be a good way to keep track of what things I need to do soon. For things I would get to later or whenever I feel like it, I'll put them in Firefox's "Boookmarks Menu" or "Other Bookmarks" folders, and have lots of folders consisting of Reddit posts and searches about different topics.

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Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y (4 replies)
TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I don't think that XKCD applies here, browser bookmark features rarely change.

gianni@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I think the point of linking this comic is to highlight that your workflow is both uncommon and pathologically insane.

Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

I've seen a lot of weird user workflow in my time, I'd rate this one 3/10, the comic highlights the extreme nature people some times get to.

TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y

I think that's a stretch

scytale@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y

I don’t trust myself to remember to check a to-do list, so when I know I want/need to do something later, I just add it to my calendar so I get notified and I can snooze it if I want to delay it but not completely forget.

JWBananas@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Better than using tabs as bookmarks

davel@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I don’t know why you’re asking this productivity question on Linux and Firefox communities instead of on productivity communities.

Mozes@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y

Are there productivity communities?

TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 1y

Now I got downvotes in all three productivity communities I posted on:

communism@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y

Yeah sort of. I have a "to-read" folder of anything I've been meaning to read (believe it or not, it constantly grows and rarely shrinks...) and I use my top-level bookmarks bar for stuff to look at, usually cool FOSS projects I stumble across and want to try out. I don't use it the exact way you talk about though, eg I usually don't edit the bookmark name but the webpage title is usually descriptive enough for me.

chronotron@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

only if i plan to do it in like, 3 months

spittingimage@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

No, but it's not a bad idea.

gianni@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

That’s debatable.

spittingimage@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y

How lucky that we're on the internet! 😉

moonpiedumplings@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y

Yeah.

I also occasionally use bookmarks bar as session save/restore, since firefox can open all bookmarks in a folder if you right click on it.

Firefox bookmarks are extremely versatile and underrated.

dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
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GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 1y

Everyone finds a way that works for them. I personally use bookmarks very rarely and often type stuff manually.

Jumuta@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

you should try the desktop sticky note thing in kde

Caboose12000@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

I do that with the TabStash extension, which just uses bookmarks in the background so technically yes

MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world MOD · 2 pts · 1y

Hello, from next time please try and include commentary on a feature/aspect/application on Linux that forms the basis for your post. I won't delete/lock it but since this is a linux community, I would like to see posts a little more biased towards *nix instead of being perfectly agnostic.

I tend to be fairly laid back in my management of communities but I'm sure we agree that we'd like to see posts mention *nix-specific paradigms if possible on a linux community page.

Thanks