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I'm not sure if it's just me for not, but I find myself using bookmarks less and less as the years go by. Going through my bookmarks, I realized half of my bookmarks all point to dead links these days. The only thing I consistently use anymore is the bookmarks bar for quick access to sites I frequently use.

 

This got me thinking .. for relatively common/large sites or If you know what you're looking for, it's seems so much more efficient to just do a search through your address bar to find the site/page you need. For relatively obscure sites or less known, the links are usually dead by the time you need it again.. so what do you guys actually use your bookmarks for (if at all)?

 

 

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yeah, i use them less and less.    10-15 links in the quick access bar are enough.

 

if need be i can put a folder on the quick access bar, quickly giving me a list of saved songs on youtube that i like, or anything else where i need to make a list.

 

 

i used to have 100s of bookmarks of cool and useful stuff i wanted to save, but since i did not use them i realized it was pointless to store them all. 

if i really need something i will just find it again.

Use them all the time, have at least a hundred just for development.. various libraries/platforms/tools/runtimes/etc etc, documentation, repositories, all that jazz, and that's just one subject. Have a little script that goes thru them and checks for dead ones when I feel the need to run it. My commonly used stuff is pinned via a modern start-screen like thing that uses RSS for the live tiles emulation, but I can't do without bookmarks.

Like others, I use them mostly on my bookmarks bar. 

 

I have things in folders like my VPS and Hosting panel logins, some quick links to sites like Facbook with a special URL that sorts by most recent rather than most popular, and lately, XDA links that I am bookmarking for my phone's ROM.  The phone is starting to lose support up there, so finding threads related to it there can be a task sometimes.

 

Other times, I use bookmarks to remember I site later that I need to get to, but always tend for forget.

I have some I cycle through daily, some that I keep updated on, some that I keep as reference, some to read later, some for long term storage...  so "everything" really.

 

I do primarily use the bookmarks bar with folders and subfolders, though, to keep those sorted.

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Any site I use on a regular basis gets added to my quick-link bar, i'm not going to do a google search every-time I want to go to commonly visited site. That just wouldn't make any sense.

I don't use them at all anymore. Anything I go to frequently is pinned to my Start Screen, and anything else pops up within two or three letters when I type on the address bar. It's much quicker to just let IE remember where I go than to click through menus.

 

And for any of the long term stuff I want to come back to I just share it to the reading list.

 

-Forjo

Well I do a lot of research on the web and on sites like Google Books or in the Google news archive. So a big chunk of my bookmarks is that. I also bookmark news articles I want to have reference to.

 

I really would love if Microsoft, Google, or other browser makers would really work on modernizing the bookmarking experience in their browsers.

Well I do a lot of research on the web and on sites like Google Books or in the Google news archive. So a big chunk of my bookmarks is that. I also bookmark news articles I want to have reference to.

 

I really would love if Microsoft, Google, or other browser makers would really work on modernizing the bookmarking experience in their browsers.

 

How do you modernize bookmarks? Turn them into giant squares that hog the screen? I think they are just fine the way they are.

How do you modernize bookmarks? Turn them into giant squares that hog the screen? I think they are just fine the way they are.

That's already been done in Chrome. About as useful as you'd imagine. (IE, it's not, and not surprisingly less functionality to go with it.)

Personally, between regular bookmarks and "live bookmarks" that some browsers have it's pretty good as it is, does what it's supposed to do and all that, although a bit more utility in the browser out of the box wouldn't hurt. (Refresh favicons, check for dead, maybe track usage stats so you can weed out the crap, etc etc.) But otherwise it's fine, one of those things that doesn't need changing 'just because.'

How do you modernize bookmarks? Turn them into giant squares that hog the screen? I think they are just fine the way they are.

 

Add tagging, plus descriptions, so you can write notes. Plus yes, certain ways of browsing bookmarks where you see the content do help if you're trying to sift through a lot of them and determine what they are and find what you want; so for instance there's a Chrome extension called Dewey bookmarks which is limited but has nice presentation. Currently, if you have a big mess of bookmarks its difficult finding what you want unless you spend a lot of time organizing them into folders.

Got loads for development all nicely categorized. Changing it from a list view would be a disaster.

 

There could be more than one view.. and just because they add tagging doesn't mean folders have to go away. IE already also allows you to add content descriptions, Chrome doesn't, but even IE makes you go into a properly dialog instead of having easy access when you create the bookmark. All of this  could be better streamlined.

Na that wouldn't scare me. What would scare me is someone googing a site they visit all the time.

Yes, I too hate when someone "googing" a site they visit. Type it into the damn address bar!

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