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Good point. I've come to accept that bookmarking tabs is just a mechanism for making me feel OK closing them, and that I will never, ever go back through my boo
by ashark 9y ago
Good point. I've come to accept that bookmarking tabs is just a mechanism for making me feel OK closing them, and that I will never, ever go back through my bookmarks to look at that stuff. Haven't done it in over 20 years of web browsing, so why would I start now? They're just a psychological crutch. I used them a little before the days of history search in the address bar, but not since.
Doesn't stop me from carefully backing up "bookmarks.html" or similar any time I retire a device or an OS installation, naturally. I must have 30 of those things buried in places like "old_backups/junk/old_laptop_backup/user/desktop/junk/rescued_from_old_hd/floppy_backups/backup/bookmarks.html".
- sogen 9y agoAfter I lost my bookmarks in a Firefox upgrade, i lost interest in keeping things bookmarked. Plus, as research has shown, most links will be dead in a couple years. Btw, do you use Pinboard?, have heard good things about it, specially the archive option.
- 0xCMP 9y agoI use pinboard, I only needed to pay once (I got in before the yearly subscriptions), but I still pay for archiving. I rarely use the archives and nothing I've looked at pinboard has gone away, but it's only been a year. I'm thinking, just looking at my own behavior, over the next 2-3 years it'll get worse. I have to say though it's not easy to get to the archive from somewhere. It's easier to look at archive.is or way back machine first than look at my own bookmark.