Do you still use Favorites or Bookmarks?
Last year I looked at my bookmarks in Firefox and realized I hardly ever used them anymore. Over the years my system was simply to organize them into various categories. I made folders for Business sites, Tech/computer sites, Book sites etc. The folder with the most bookmarks was tmp, a place to add a site if I wasn’t sure exactly what I wanted to do with it.
As I scrutinized this mess of hundreds of sites, places long forgotten, websites I knew I would never visit again, I wondered why I still used common bookmarking to keep information. It is unwieldy, bloated and hard to maintain. Besides, most of the information delivery systems I now use don’t require bookmarks.
RSS feeds can be saved in the reader. The few sites that I visit on a regular basis I keep on my home page. Of course there are sharing sites such as:
Google Bookmarks
PortaPortal
Delicious
EasyBm
Over the last year, I seldom bookmarked any site and then only to the tmp folder. I have found Evernote to be an invaluable program for keeping tidbits of information I want to use later.
Myway allows you to put the content of your choice on the portal – I use it as a home page – add the dozen or so sites I visit on a regular basis.
Do we really need browser bookmarks anymore? Add to the common knowledge, how do you manage bookmarks and favorites?
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Wow, you are right. I can't believe all the old bookmarks I don't ever use anymore. I guess my closets aren't the only things that need “spring cleaning” occasionally.
Good analogy. The Internet is shifting and moving so fast ordinary bookmarks seem antiquated.
I use bookmarks only for the various webcams and message boards I visit – and for the links to the logins for the websites I administer. Everything else goes into RSS.
RSS works much better for me as well.
I use bookmarks on Firefox. (Especially on the Firefox toolbar for my most frequented websites)
Also:
- RSS reader (that runs on my computer)
- A program called 'ShoveBox' (for OS X) to either bookmark or save the webpage.
- Evernote for notation and screen capture if I'm on my work computer.
Evernote is my favorite app for keeping notes and URLs. I'll have a look Shovebox. For RSS I moved to Bloglines. I find myself moving more and more into the 'cloud'. The great thing about this is, I can see “my stuff” when I travel. Thanks for the addition of these programs.
I use my Evernote account for keeping notes on the books I'm writing. I used to keep endless Word documents – now I have notebooks for each story and a handful of tags.
Never would have thought to use it for bookmarking. Exactly how would that work?
Whenever I add a snippet of text, photo or whatever, it automatically adds the URL. Sometimes, if there are a lot of URLs I just copy and paste anything that is relevant. Ways of keeping info that we want, and discarding what is useless is getting better and better. With the tons of content we and others create, this is going to be a necessity. Wait, it already is.
I use Evernote for quite a few other things besides the Internet. The two great things I like are, instant management and backup.
Ah. I gotcha. While I have the webclipper add-on for Firefox, I've never used it!
I like that it keeps my writing notes in the cloud. I don't have to worry about losing them! YAY!
Definitely now. As a usual internet user I use bookmarking a lot.. But again thats just me
And that works too. We each have our own system…
Definitely now. As a usual internet user I use bookmarking a lot.. But again thats just me
And that works too. We each have our own system…
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