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I use bookmarks in two basic ways. One is that I have Firefox customized to have two rows of header and on the right half of the top row (which has tabs on the
by joveian 10y ago
I use bookmarks in two basic ways. One is that I have Firefox customized to have two rows of header and on the right half of the top row (which has tabs on the left) I have favicon only bookmarks of sites I look at frequently (like hckrnews.com) so I can open them with one click. I have eighteen such bookmarks plus a link to browser preferences. I have seven folders of bookmarks, either just with the folder icon, one or two characters of text, or a single emojii character for identification. Three of these contain links to my favorite articles (Firefox is bad at scrolling in bookmark folders :( ). One has links I occasionally want to use but not often and one is supposed to have things I want to go back and look at somewhat quickly but not quickly enough to be worth a top level link (I need to clean it out, though, I've collected too much that I am not going to go back to). I'll sometimes create temporary folders about a particular topic.
I bookmark most pages I view as unsorted bookmarks (especially helpful for news sites that have essentially no way to ever find old articles) and then ones I am more interested in I add to another folder that I occasionally divide into smaller folders (to avoid needing to scroll) and put all of these smaller folders ordered chronologically in a folder to the right of the tabs. I usually search the bookmarks first when looking for something, but I don't tag and too often neither the title nor url contain the right keywords for me to find it.
I would really love a more unified bookmark/history system along the lines of Vivaldi's calendar history, but being able to create icons that will flag the current page (to be able to look through just the more interesting history) and other icons that would cause the current page to be saved to a particular folder as a bookmark. Then at most one click would reproduce my current system other than occasional reorganization. Since I can't predict in advance most of what I want to refer to again, I want it to take as little time as possible to bookmark things. I liked the star in Firefox better when it didn't pop up the folder selection unless you clicked it twice.