How do you organize bookmarks?

[rqian]

Now that it's summer and I have an endless amount of time surfing, my bookmarks is stacking up. I bet it's the case for everyone else as well as we look for those cheap deals or try to stay current. So the question is how do you keep track of your bookmarks?

I'll start: here are the folders I have:

• Business
  
• Fun and Games
  
• Multimedia
  
• News
  
• Personal
  
• Resources
  
• Search
  
• Shopping
  
• Technology
  
• University
  

I'm thinking about organizing them into function types like news and blogs, social/forums, references, and resources.

[macmax]

Email

News Group

Movies

Games

Torrent

[offroadaaron]

I don't have any organization. I think the fun part it actually trying to find the bookmark you want! :D

[39 Thieves]

Download

Gaming

Graphics

Literary

Misc.

Shopping

Technology

Some of them have sub-categories as well, like in shopping I have specific sites like Newegg and the like stuck into their own little geek sections.

[rqian]

I don't have any organization. I think the fun part it actually trying to find the bookmark you want! :D

Haha, for me it'd be faster to google it again than to try to find it in my bookmark.

[primexx]

I currently have multi-level folders for over 200 bookmarks. Most of the ones I actually use are in the bookmarks toolbar. I should probably do some bookmark cleaning soon.

[pdmcmahon]

I had well over 150, I procrastinated forever about cleaning it up and I just recently did it and got down to 21. I do have to say that one of the best features of Firefox 3.0 is that I don't need to have my bookmarks sidebar always open, I simply start typing the name of the bookmark in the address bar and it comes up.

As far as organization, I got down to 2 folders:

Common: contains all of the ones I check/hit on a daily basis for news, forums, deals, tech stuff, etc.

Email: contains links to Gmail, Hotmail, GoDaddy Webmail and Yahoo Mail

Simplify........

[j0sh097]

This is basically it for me.

[imis]

i am using firefox and add on delicious (del.icio.us ) which give good customization.

[BilliShere]

Dont forget stuff.

I have like 4 stuff folders other than the categories in the original post

its like

stuff#1

stuff#2

stuff#3

etc.

A very handy word if you just hate the word miscellaneous

and oh yeah.. some people also use a p0rn folder... with its different "genres" within that folder

[SakuraKira]

I have pretty elaborate bookmarks... (> = subfolder)

Forums

Reading Material

>Misc Reads

>News

Computer Junk

>Firefox

>Customization

Web Comics

Japan Fan

>Culture

>Fanfiction

Media

>Fansubbers

Miscellaneous Fun

>Game Sites

Design

>Web

>PS

>Fonts

<name> Bookmarks (these are my mothers who uses the 'net rarely)

>Moving/Travel

*junk outside of folders*

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As I'm surfing the internet, I will bookmark many things. It might be a story or a news item I didn't feel like reading at that moment, a site I briefly went to for a specific reason that I was interested in perusing again, something funny/interesting I've saved to show someone else, or misc. things that need to be categorized.

Periodically I will go through all of those things and put them in folders, and tag them accordingly. I also occasionally go through all of my dozens of sites to make sure the websites are still active. There's nothing like needing to check out some information, and finding the one site you saved for such an occasion to be dead.

[DrawLand]

I don't have them in folders, I just have them in the default/root folder which produces a giant single list with around 1,000+ web pages bookmarked. When I click "bookmarks" it takes around 10 to 20 seconds for the menu to appear. To scroll manually from the top to the bottom of the list takes about 15 minutes. I should sort them one day, lol :)

[brentaal]

* Bookmarks Toolbar - sites I visit regularly (gmail, google, reddit, neowin, yt, etc.)

* Bookmarks Menu - sites I visit less often, but still on a fairly regular basis (at least once a day)

Then there's also 5 or 6 folders in my Bookmarks menu with sites I rarely visit, but are somewhat important... I try to keep it clean, so I never have more than 50ish bookmarks.

[shakey_snake]

for about ~200 bookmarks I use:

the 3 default folders: Bookmarks Menu, Bookmarks Toolbar and Unfiled Bookmarks

And no subfolders

...but many tags.

Tagging is so much easier and useful than sorting things into folders.

We can only hope for an entire file system front-end based on such is eventually implemented.

winFS = :wub:

Edited July 14, 2008 by shakey_snake

[obiwong]

just need 2 folders

1. pr0n

2. non pr0n

:laugh:

[rqian]

I have pretty elaborate bookmarks... (> = subfolder)

Forums

Reading Material

>Misc Reads

>News

Computer Junk

>Firefox

>Customization

Web Comics

Japan Fan

>Culture

>Fanfiction

Media

>Fansubbers

Miscellaneous Fun

>Game Sites

Design

>Web

>PS

>Fonts

<name> Bookmarks (these are my mothers who uses the 'net rarely)

>Moving/Travel

*junk outside of folders*

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As I'm surfing the internet, I will bookmark many things. It might be a story or a news item I didn't feel like reading at that moment, a site I briefly went to for a specific reason that I was interested in perusing again, something funny/interesting I've saved to show someone else, or misc. things that need to be categorized.

Periodically I will go through all of those things and put them in folders, and tag them accordingly. I also occasionally go through all of my dozens of sites to make sure the websites are still active. There's nothing like needing to check out some information, and finding the one site you saved for such an occasion to be dead.

That's a very organized way to sort bookmarks. Thanks for sharing!

[Marcel T]

Firefox 3 makes bookmarks a breeze without having to strictly categorise bookmarks into folders. Just click the star in the location bar and done. Want to make it easier to find later, click the yellow star again and add a couple tags which will aid in Awesome bar recall. These are automatically added to an Unsorted folder which keeps your usual Bookmarks menu nice and clean.

That's the way I do my bookmarks, with a dash of del.icio.us for stuff I want to pull up from anywhere, as well as Instapaper + Read Later + Instapaper app on my iPod touch which works really well.

[redvamp128]

TV Shows-

MAIL-

Computer News-

LINUX- Puppy- DSL -Other Distro's -XFCE -GNOME

Computer Hardware-

Microsoft - XP- 9X - NT4- Vista- Beta - Research

Games And Fun-

Programs Installed-

Each one has multiple sub categories-

Actually with FF3 new type search function it makes finding them easier.

[idaniel]

I use a bookmark manager called Adanced URL Catalog to organize my bookmarks.