I exported mine and searched for “http”. I got 1,882. Crazy. I only use about 20 regularly.
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.
I have few dozens … pretty much never. Many of them are probably broken by now.
I don’t have many. I mostly abuse the tab bar instead. Naughty, I know.
Those tabs haunt me like disapproving ancestors.
Mood.
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.
I do that too, for the same reason.
Like 5.
If they don’t all fit on the bookmark toolbar, there’s too many, and someone’s getting purged.
Stalin sort
Lethal. I’m jealous!
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
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.
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.
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.
529 in one browers, 51 in the other. I use half of them throughout the year.
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.
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.
About 50 and i use none of them, what the hell are you doing with 1.9k bookmarks my guy?
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.
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!
For sure! Something about making it more organized little by little is super satisfying, theraputic even.
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.
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.
Folders.
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.
You can extrapolate this to now that all search engines suck.
Kagi.com is alright.
Because you have to pay for it (or create new email addresses to get a trial period)
40-50. The recipes are the only ones I check regularly. The others are just references.
That’s a nice number. And if that includes recipes then even better!
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.
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.
