I can relate to the barely recognisable bookmarks! Having a distinct work machine sounds good. Part of my problem is that I have one machine for work and personal use.
I’m asking myself the same question! Some are for my career, such as portals for best practices etc. Many are for coding shortcuts I forget frequently (eg git cheat sheet ). I have a lot of fact-checking articles I like to keep hand to counter online disinformation.
It seems I’ve been bookmarking videos as documentaries to watch later, I’m just realising. The rest fall into personal admin (banking, bus routes, local grocery delivery), languages and health supplements.
Honestly I just wanted to delete everything and start again!
Edit: oh, there’s a folder of fun stuff too like funny websites.
I think there's definitely something to this. Kinda like a cache, it's nice to have some pages that you know are interesting or useful in someway that you can find that little bit easier.
But the in-browser search for bookmarks is pretty limited. It just checks the title and url and maybe some tags. I know (or think?) there are some programs out there that index and/or archive your bookmarks and let you do full text search through them like a proper search engine.
There are alternatives to Google, too. But I think anymore, once per year I’ll export my bookmarks to a local web page and wipe the slate clean in the browser.
Apparently 4614. Several hundred are probably duplicates tho. I'll bookmark interesting pages that I see at work (since I usually don't have time to read them) and occasionally import them to my main browser. Like others have said, that's built up over many years. And in general I've tried to be more of a 'bookmark it and close the tab already' kind of person lately.
It's all various levels of hoarding and to-dos I know I'll never get to, but pretty often I do find myself enjoying browsing through my bookmarks and remembering neat stuff I saw in passing or articles I wanted to read. It's also fun sorting them out to folders, even tho I know they'll never be properly organized nor especially useful if they were.
I do very regularly use a few that I keep on my bookmarks toolbar. I make better use of that feature at work too, where I have the most important few pages and environments right at hand.
Now that you mention it, I think part of the reason I ended up with so many is from trying to not keep tabs open. I also enjoy sorting them into folders. I don't know why but it's one of the more enjoyable things I've done on a computer in some time!
In my desktop browser I have about sixty between my quick dial, and the menu bar.
I visit about 10 of them every day, and I visit most of them at some point during the week. I have folders on the menu bar for long-term storage, but individual bookmarks on the menu bar are short-term, ones I'll want for a few days or weeks but know I'll get rid of when they've served their purpose. But, now that I look at it, some of the individual...
You know what? It all makes sense to me, I know where everything is, and I'm happy.
That is the funniest comment termination I've ever read :D
It sounds like you have a very clear system. That's what I want to get to and am getting to.
I have been very diligent about saving bookmarks to the relevant folders, so on the surface everything looked organised. Only when I did the export I realised I had way more info than I could possibly ever consume. I'm down to under 300 now with the rest living in a HTML page/dashboard I can visit if I ever need to.
Looks like roughly a dozen or two (from a quick check) as far as actual bookmarks go. I use most of them, though there's a few I should probably prune at this point. I have a lot of tabs in tab groups instead though (500-ish?). That works better for me with frequent screen sharing for work calls (keeping URL bar suggestions restricted to bookmarks only), and matches my way of thinking about projects I'm working on better as well.
I also save pages with SingleFile that I want to preserve for future reference instead of bookmarking -- no point hoping they'll continue to be online and accessible when I can just keep my own copy locally... Looks like I've archived roughly 200 or so pages in the last year like that.
2547, according to chrome://sync-internals, that I have built up around 15-20 years. I treat my bookmarks as more of a "read later" thing though, and a good chunk are also potential recipes and gaming guides. There's only 1 that I use almost daily, due to it being work related.
My answer: some bookmarks represent a significant time investment, for example, finding a specific spare part (3rd-party) for an appliance at home. I'll bookmark that because I don't want to do all that searching and comparing again.
A couple hundred, and I use them. A few comics I share whenever they're relevant, some of the maintenance pages for my personal site, arrival times for my nearest bus stops, minecraft server maps, and the rest fall into three broad categories:
culinary recipes I've made in the past
game wiki pages and gameFAQs guides
shopping lists / gift ideas
These are all organized into folders and subfolders. Well, not all. But mostly.
Thanks for the detailed comment. I have folders for shopping and recipes too. The shopping has lots of sub folders. Some of those things took ages to find (such as off-brand replacement air filters).
@FarraigePlaisteach Around 120, I use most of them at least once a year. There are a few (mostly obituaries) that I rarely go to, but like having around.
Across all platforms and browser instances, I have about 40 to 50 in total (I don't feel like actually counting them) and I think I use more than half of them every day. The rest are things I either use occasionally or that I want to use eventually but currently don't or can't.
I have about 20 sites bookmarked with just their favicon that are sort of "first order access", though I use some of them more regularly than others. At random intervals, one will catch my eye and I'll think "I haven't used that in a while, I don't think I need that up there anymore" and I'll remove it, usually while I'm at it I'll remove others too. I have about a dozen folders too, these are more long-term storage, e.g. I have one for all my financial institutions (not to brag but I have several student loan servicers 😣), one for network security tools, one for rare media finding tools, etc. These are used less often and they usually get put there after I've had to go look them up several times. I tend to keep it well pruned though, I think I have maybe 200 distinct sites bookmarked.
Probably less than 20 or so. I don't like clutter, so only my frequented sites and resources that aren't in the launcher are bookmarked. I also often delete them if they've been unused for a while.
I never leave tabs open. Rarely, when I'm researching something, I might have ten or fifteen open, but when I'm done I close them all. I can't stand them all sitting up there, mocking me.
Who needs coffee when there is the anxiety of 100 open tabs! I have a friend who (somehow) only ever has one tab open. I only have 3 tabs open now, but I just noticed that I have several tab groups I completely forgot about.
The export contains all the bookmarks in one file. So searching for 'http' gives a total count quickly. I do have gemini:// links too, but not in that browser :)
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MrQuallzin@pie.eyeofthestorm.place · 12 pts · 128d
At work I have what I need and trim what I don't use. It's organized and in a good enough state to share with new employees.
At home I don't remember what half the bookmarks are for, and the other half are for long-abandoned projects. No idea how many there are
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 128d
I can relate to the barely recognisable bookmarks! Having a distinct work machine sounds good. Part of my problem is that I have one machine for work and personal use.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 128d
I have close to 100. They're like books on a shelf. If I read a good book I put it on the shelf even though I'm not likely to ever read it again.
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 128d
That's interesting. A lot of mine probably fall into that category. I'm exporting them to a HTML file that I can browse like a website.
elephantium@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 127d
I don't have many. I mostly abuse the tab bar instead. Naughty, I know.
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 127d
Those tabs haunt me like disapproving ancestors.
elephantium@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 127d
Mood.
i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 128d
Like 5.
If they don’t all fit on the bookmark toolbar, there’s too many, and someone’s getting purged.
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 127d
Lethal. I’m jealous!
jcr@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 127d
Stalin sort
zerozaku@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 127d
I almost given up the habit of bookmarking. I just remember some parts of the URL or the tab name and my history pulls it up for me.
RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 128d
529 in one browers, 51 in the other. I use half of them throughout the year.
disregardable@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 128d
40-50. The recipes are the only ones I check regularly. The others are just references.
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 128d
That's a nice number. And if that includes recipes then even better!
WILSOOON@programming.dev · 5 pts · 128d
About 50 and i use none of them, what the hell are you doing with 1.9k bookmarks my guy?
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 128d
I’m asking myself the same question! Some are for my career, such as portals for best practices etc. Many are for coding shortcuts I forget frequently (eg git cheat sheet ). I have a lot of fact-checking articles I like to keep hand to counter online disinformation.
It seems I’ve been bookmarking videos as documentaries to watch later, I’m just realising. The rest fall into personal admin (banking, bus routes, local grocery delivery), languages and health supplements.
Honestly I just wanted to delete everything and start again!
Edit: oh, there’s a folder of fun stuff too like funny websites.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 128d
My old shower thought was: Now that Google sucks, people will go back to saving bookmarks.
I used to bookmark, then I figured I could just Google and find everything again easily so what's the point, but it might be time for bookmarks again.
emb@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 128d
I think there's definitely something to this. Kinda like a cache, it's nice to have some pages that you know are interesting or useful in someway that you can find that little bit easier.
But the in-browser search for bookmarks is pretty limited. It just checks the title and url and maybe some tags. I know (or think?) there are some programs out there that index and/or archive your bookmarks and let you do full text search through them like a proper search engine.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 128d
Folders.
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 128d
There are alternatives to Google, too. But I think anymore, once per year I’ll export my bookmarks to a local web page and wipe the slate clean in the browser.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 128d
You can extrapolate this to now that all search engines suck.
HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social · 2 pts · 127d
Kagi.com is alright.
Because you have to pay for it (or create new email addresses to get a trial period)
emb@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 128d
Apparently 4614. Several hundred are probably duplicates tho. I'll bookmark interesting pages that I see at work (since I usually don't have time to read them) and occasionally import them to my main browser. Like others have said, that's built up over many years. And in general I've tried to be more of a 'bookmark it and close the tab already' kind of person lately.
It's all various levels of hoarding and to-dos I know I'll never get to, but pretty often I do find myself enjoying browsing through my bookmarks and remembering neat stuff I saw in passing or articles I wanted to read. It's also fun sorting them out to folders, even tho I know they'll never be properly organized nor especially useful if they were.
I do very regularly use a few that I keep on my bookmarks toolbar. I make better use of that feature at work too, where I have the most important few pages and environments right at hand.
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 128d
Now that you mention it, I think part of the reason I ended up with so many is from trying to not keep tabs open. I also enjoy sorting them into folders. I don't know why but it's one of the more enjoyable things I've done on a computer in some time!
emb@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 128d
For sure! Something about making it more organized little by little is super satisfying, theraputic even.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 128d
In my desktop browser I have about sixty between my quick dial, and the menu bar.
I visit about 10 of them every day, and I visit most of them at some point during the week. I have folders on the menu bar for long-term storage, but individual bookmarks on the menu bar are short-term, ones I'll want for a few days or weeks but know I'll get rid of when they've served their purpose. But, now that I look at it, some of the individual...
You know what? It all makes sense to me, I know where everything is, and I'm happy.
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 128d
That is the funniest comment termination I've ever read :D
It sounds like you have a very clear system. That's what I want to get to and am getting to.
I have been very diligent about saving bookmarks to the relevant folders, so on the surface everything looked organised. Only when I did the export I realised I had way more info than I could possibly ever consume. I'm down to under 300 now with the rest living in a HTML page/dashboard I can visit if I ever need to.
e0qdk@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 128d
Looks like roughly a dozen or two (from a quick check) as far as actual bookmarks go. I use most of them, though there's a few I should probably prune at this point. I have a lot of tabs in tab groups instead though (500-ish?). That works better for me with frequent screen sharing for work calls (keeping URL bar suggestions restricted to bookmarks only), and matches my way of thinking about projects I'm working on better as well.
I also save pages with SingleFile that I want to preserve for future reference instead of bookmarking -- no point hoping they'll continue to be online and accessible when I can just keep my own copy locally... Looks like I've archived roughly 200 or so pages in the last year like that.
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 127d
Somehow I find it extremely funny to read the low number of bookmarks followed by the huge number of tabs.
Seriously though, I get that when you find something that matches the way my brain works then that’s what I’ll stick with too.
Thanks for putting me on to SingleFile. I use Wallabag locally but I’m not sure if I’ll stick with it.
CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 128d
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 128d
Yes, web browser bookmarks (or favourites).
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 127d
I've got a lot of YT bookmarks in my browser (I have no YT account, so I track my favourite channels this way), and maybe 20-30 other links in total.
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 127d
I do that too, for the same reason.
CharlesReed@fedia.io · 3 pts · 128d
2547, according to chrome://sync-internals, that I have built up around 15-20 years. I treat my bookmarks as more of a "read later" thing though, and a good chunk are also potential recipes and gaming guides. There's only 1 that I use almost daily, due to it being work related.
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 128d
Very similar to my situation, both with the number of bookmarks and the number of years it took to gather them.
My reading list is separate from my bookmarks though. I just checked and there’s another 1,000 there by the looks of it.
SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 127d
Why would I want to dig through folders of bookmarks when I can type 3 characters in the url and have my browser suggest the right page for me?
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 127d
My answer: some bookmarks represent a significant time investment, for example, finding a specific spare part (3rd-party) for an appliance at home. I'll bookmark that because I don't want to do all that searching and comparing again.
Pika@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 127d
I have 440+ but they are leftover from when i actually used them, I haven't used the bookmark feature in at least 12-15 years now.
I have a feeling most of them are from an old addon that I had, because I think it abused the bookmark feature in order to keep browser sessions.
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 127d
Some of the old ones have been interesting to rediscover.
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 128d
About 100 use each at least ounce a month even if only to check the site. Use them to keep track of many sites and interests.
Nemo@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 128d
A couple hundred, and I use them. A few comics I share whenever they're relevant, some of the maintenance pages for my personal site, arrival times for my nearest bus stops, minecraft server maps, and the rest fall into three broad categories:
culinary recipes I've made in the past
game wiki pages and gameFAQs guides
shopping lists / gift ideas
These are all organized into folders and subfolders. Well, not all. But mostly.
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 128d
Thanks for the detailed comment. I have folders for shopping and recipes too. The shopping has lots of sub folders. Some of those things took ages to find (such as off-brand replacement air filters).
klymilark@walsh.fallcounty.omg.lol · 2 pts · 128d
@FarraigePlaisteach Around 120, I use most of them at least once a year. There are a few (mostly obituaries) that I rarely go to, but like having around.
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 128d
That's a sane number. You're my role model :)
grte@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 128d
Uh, 27. I can't remember the last time I opened one.
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 128d
Teach me
grte@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 128d
Sorry I don't know how to teach having a poor memory.
remon@ani.social · 2 pts · 127d
I have few dozens .... pretty much never. Many of them are probably broken by now.
vortexal@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 127d
Across all platforms and browser instances, I have about 40 to 50 in total (I don't feel like actually counting them) and I think I use more than half of them every day. The rest are things I either use occasionally or that I want to use eventually but currently don't or can't.
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 128d
I have about 20 sites bookmarked with just their favicon that are sort of "first order access", though I use some of them more regularly than others. At random intervals, one will catch my eye and I'll think "I haven't used that in a while, I don't think I need that up there anymore" and I'll remove it, usually while I'm at it I'll remove others too. I have about a dozen folders too, these are more long-term storage, e.g. I have one for all my financial institutions (not to brag but I have several student loan servicers 😣), one for network security tools, one for rare media finding tools, etc. These are used less often and they usually get put there after I've had to go look them up several times. I tend to keep it well pruned though, I think I have maybe 200 distinct sites bookmarked.
sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 128d
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 128d
ADHD here too. Don't know why I even bother lol
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 128d
No idea, but I never use them.
Beth@piefed.social · 2 pts · 128d
10 or so I use daily. 20 or so others I reference occasionally.
saltesc@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 128d
Probably less than 20 or so. I don't like clutter, so only my frequented sites and resources that aren't in the launcher are bookmarked. I also often delete them if they've been unused for a while.
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 128d
That's incredible. I use quarter of that number for bus routes and local grocery shopping alone.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 128d
I never was any good at using bookmarks but I currently I have over 100 tabs.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 128d
I never leave tabs open. Rarely, when I'm researching something, I might have ten or fifteen open, but when I'm done I close them all. I can't stand them all sitting up there, mocking me.
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 128d
Who needs coffee when there is the anxiety of 100 open tabs! I have a friend who (somehow) only ever has one tab open. I only have 3 tabs open now, but I just noticed that I have several tab groups I completely forgot about.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 127d
I have exactly 9 and I use 8 of them daily. The 9th is a bread recipe.
one_old_coder@piefed.social · 1 pts · 128d
Why search for http? Do you have Gopher or Usenet links too?
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 128d
The export contains all the bookmarks in one file. So searching for 'http' gives a total count quickly. I do have gemini:// links too, but not in that browser :)
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 128d
Bit over 200 but this is a collection I've been building for around 20 years or so.
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 128d
About 10 per year. That's good going. I will be exercising maximum restraint from now on myself.