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I have tried many different solutions the last two decades, but none of of them really stuck or became useful over time. I kinda gave up and as a last ditch eff
by rsolva 4y ago
I have tried many different solutions the last two decades, but none of of them really stuck or became useful over time. I kinda gave up and as a last ditch effort started to do the simplest thing I could think of: ctrl+D to add bookmarks in Firefox, jotting down a few keywords on each entry. No folders, no structure, just a flat list and some keywords.
A few months in I noticed how powerful this simple system was. When talking with someone else about a tool, github-repo or article I had seen but did no remember the name or title of, finding it back was suddenly a breeze. Since I keep my desktop and mobile bookmarks in sync, it it just a matter of typing in a keword in the address bar in firefox and it shows up instantly!
On desktop, you can limit the search to bookmarks only by starting with a *, which is helpful to avoid browser history etc.
I have really low bar for adding a bookmark now as the mental overhead is so low and it is done notime. It has become the second brain I always wanted :)
- amazing_stories 4y agoGood tip. I just recently started tagging my bookmarks because I have too many to easily sort.
- JamesLeonis 4y agoI also use Firefox bookmarks. To tack onto this, you can also select multiple tabs and bookmark them all into a bookmark folder.
- jcul 4y agoAnother related feature I find very useful is you can right click a bookmark folder and open all the bookmarks in separate tabs. It's useful for grouping a set of pages that you use together, but only now and then.
- makapuf 4y agoI do this, as well as having an automated menu with 10 last bookmarks to continue reading things I just bookmarked
- ngetchell 4y agoHow do you accomplish this?
- JoshTriplett 4y agoI do this as well, and then Firefox Sync ensures I have the same bookmarks on laptop and mobile.
- deamanto 4y agoYep and also doing a ctrl+b you can search your bookmarks from the sidebar too
- MrVandemar 4y agoI also do this, but I don't like my browser cluttered up with thousands of accumulated bookmarks, many of which I don't return to. So I export them every month, delete the embedded favicons, and then wipe. If I want to find something I just grep for it. A bit primitive, but it works for me.
- memcg 4y agoI use Firefox bookmarks too and sync so new devices are easy to setup. The "Bookmark search plus 2" add on allows you to search folder names and shows which folder a bookmark is stored in.