My experience parallels yours almost exactly, particularly switching from bookmark folders to one big folder with tags. However, there's one more step in my pro

My experience parallels yours almost exactly, particularly switching from bookmark folders to one big folder with tags. However, there's one more step in my progression, which is that I all but stopped using my browser's bookmarks, and moved to pinboard (with the painful interim step of delicious, on which pinboard is based). After my comment, I started thinking about tags again, and how I might clean up my pinboard tags. I decided the easiest way to start would be to delete all my tags. Before I did that, I did some simple tests. In pinboard, you can: - search all your bookmarks. - full text search all your bookmarks. - click on a tag and get everything it tags. - click on multiple tags and get everything they tag. Here's my unanalyzed results, searching for "python": text box: 700 tag: 556 check "search full text" text box: 707 After eliminating all tags: text box: 700 check "search full text" text box: 707 I'm betting that the 700 and 707 are the same before and after I deleted all my tags (yes, I actually did that). Don't know what the intersection is between the 556, 700 and 707. But I look at that and I wonder, do I really need my tags? What are they doing for me. Similar question to what made me, and possibly you, to eliminate folders in your browser's bookmarks. And I really am wondering now, do I want to bother at all rebuilding a smaller tag set? Of course that's a question for me, and it's anecdotal, everyone has different needs and solutions that work for them, according to some definition of "work."