DemonicHawk Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 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)? +E.Worm Jimmy 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+E.Worm Jimmy Subscriber¹ Posted May 3, 2015 Subscriber¹ Share Posted May 3, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Norris Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNWDweller Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Zagadka Subscriber² Posted May 3, 2015 Subscriber² Share Posted May 3, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted May 3, 2015 MVC Share Posted May 3, 2015 For Neowin Of course!!! https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1160460-the-ultimate-neowin-bookmark/ 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. timster 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forjo Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rohdekill Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 What do I use bookmarks for? Uhm....bookmarking stuff. Jim K, Praetor, timster and 1 other 4 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfish Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted May 3, 2015 MVC Share Posted May 3, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Norris Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 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.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Zagadka Subscriber² Posted May 3, 2015 Subscriber² Share Posted May 3, 2015 The plethora of "start screen" homepages/addons just show how useless those are compared to a simple bookmark bar. Technically my new tab opens a page with live tiles, but I rarely glance at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raid0 Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 It's all on the bookmark bar (5 folders) 1 main called Quick Access for the websites I visit almost on daily basis. I also keep a folder for stores, when I want to buy pc parts I like to compare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGeorge Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 i have a few main bookmarks on the bar but mostly they're a dumping ground for crap I'll never go back to. I bookmark things with the intent of reading later, but I never do. This in no way means I want the option to go away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyang Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 How do you modernize bookmarks? Turn them into giant squares that hog the screen? I think they are just fine the way they are. Isn't that sort of what most "new-tab" pages do now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfish Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted May 3, 2015 MVC Share Posted May 3, 2015 Yep I love sub folders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mockingbird Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 When I am doing research for my Chemistry/Physics/whatever papers, I bookmark all the good sources that I plan to use later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exotoxic Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Got loads for development all nicely categorized. Changing it from a list view would be a disaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfish Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Overlord Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 lol My bookmarks folder might scare some then, 4 tiers of folders, categorised Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsupersonic Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 I love bookmarks. Over my life, I've basically collected bookmarks to references I'll need, and have them organized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted May 3, 2015 MVC Share Posted May 3, 2015 lol My bookmarks folder might scare some then, 4 tiers of folders, categorised Na that wouldn't scare me. What would scare me is someone googing a site they visit all the time. The Evil Overlord 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsupersonic Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 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! The Evil Overlord 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted May 3, 2015 MVC Share Posted May 3, 2015 Yes, I too hate when someone "googing" a site they visit. Type it into the damn address bar! A lot of my customers google facebook.everytime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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