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Exactly. I see bookmarks as a kind of todo now, which completely changed the way I organize them. (I do have a single folder called "reference" but I almost n
by threepipeproblm 10y ago
Exactly. I see bookmarks as a kind of todo now, which completely changed the way I organize them. (I do have a single folder called "reference" but I almost never go in there).
- Bartweiss 10y agoIt's funny - I had the same insight and decided on the opposite solution. Many of bookmarks are an 'aging' zone, where content sits around until I'm bored and interested in reading it, or decide it no longer looks appealing and delete it. Things like speculative HN articles go there, and 90% of them become irrelevant while the other 10% become more appealing. I also have a reference folder for bookmarks, which I treat a bit like old tax returns - things that are rarely useful, but vital if I need them.
- threepipeproblm 10y agoYes, interesting how the same insight can lead to different approaches. I used to work with a guy whose desktop was a complete mess and he would never try to organize the chaos. He had high screen res and it would take him a minute or two to find something on his desktop but he could do it. Then when it got full he would take the entire thing and paste it into a new top-level folder, called "old desktops". Of course this included his old old desktops folders, recursively. So the old desktops hierarchy became like archeological strata for everything he had ever done.
- Bartweiss 10y agoThat sounds like hell to me. But on consideration, I can't judge; with good search features I lose all drive to organize my files cleanly, and only bother locating things I won't remember the name of.