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Harpsist ,

I used to keep impeccable bookmarks.

Unfortunately. It was a time where book marks were ONLY on your pc. So as soon as my hard drive crashed. I lost all of them.

I only had to do this a few times before I stopped caring.

Eventually firefox allowed cloud sync. But it was to late. I e forgotten hundreds of sites.

Chev ,

Every couple of years I revisite those sites and float in nostalgia. A pleasant feeling.

AlmightySnoo ,
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I tried a few years ago to be smarter about it and instead of bookmarking I'd schedule-send myself an email with the link to the article to force myself to read it when I have time. It worked for a while until it didn't and my email box is now littered with hundreds of "[MUST READ]" unread emails 👀

SubArcticTundra ,
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I recently made a post about just this https://lemmy.ml/post/10559407

LaunchesKayaks ,
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Me at work when I bookmark anything I think may be useful for reference. I have to go through my bookmarks every so often because I accumulate so goddamn many.

blazeknave ,

Yeah this community is r/adhdmemes

danc4498 ,

My bookmarks folder is an unorganized mess. Finding anything in it is near impossible.

JCreazy ,

I only add things to the bookmarks bar at the top so I see them and when I open a new tab they're there waiting for me. I think I only have 5 and I add and remove them so the bar doesn't get full

FlashMobOfOne ,
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However, actual paper bookmarks are pretty awesome.

dis_honestfamiliar ,

Interesting comments here. I'll share my process. I browse the web in incognito (private) exclusively. If there's something I want to come back to later, I copy paste the URL into a non private window so that it becomes part of history. So, my history is filled with things I plan to come back to. Then, I bookmark things that I need to come back to more than once.

Nithanim , (edited )

Edit: should have been a reply to "just keep the tab open"... Anyways, just keep the tab open. Maybe you stumble upon it again when closing some urelated tabs.

I still have tabs open from when I researched for my paper. That was... some years ago. It must be more than 3k open at this point since it was 2k already some time ago.

Fun fact: firefox many moons ago would take a veeery long time to open. That has been fixed for quite some time now. Also, I think they stopped bombarding DNS queries for every open tab... Fun times when you opened firefox and nothing would work for some time because the DNS servers temporarily blocked you.

woodenskewer ,
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I don't know how you people do that. If I'm not actively working on something, game or real life, 3-5 max.

MataVatnik ,
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Lies, I revisit my porn bookmarks on the regular.

Saltycracker ,

Brave soul to have those bookmarked

Neon ,

Brave Soul to not have them bookmarked

What if you lose them?

Emerald ,

why not just download them? yt-dlp

MataVatnik ,
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Then I have to keep folders and it becomes a whole thing

Rocketpoweredgorilla ,
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I usually open them twice... The first time, and bookmark it. Then the Second time a year or two later, when I'm trying to clean out my bookmarks wondering why I saved it in the first place.

cloudless ,
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Just like my Steam backlog.

But bookmarks are free...

ParetoOptimalDev ,

Start bookmarking games? lol

Kusimulkku ,

Wishlist I guess would be the equivalent.

dumpsterlid ,

That is what a system like org mode is for!

A list of bookmarks is overwhelming and useless, a tree with bookmarks and info/context interwoven makes bookmarks actually worth keeping.

herrcaptain ,

Is this specifically an Emacs thing, like for people who basically use Emacs as their operating system? It sounds interesting, but that's all I'm seeing when I search for "org mode." Frankly, Emacs intimidates me.

SubArcticTundra ,
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What do you use for this?

Kusimulkku ,

I just put the bookmarks in folders. Articles, videos, food etc.

dumpsterlid ,

That works too!

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