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Do people really use their desktop bookmarks on their phones, and how? Actually even on desktop I'm parking pages in tabs, one browser window per virtual deskto

Do people really use their desktop bookmarks on their phones, and how? Actually even on desktop I'm parking pages in tabs, one browser window per virtual desktop, one virtual desktop per customer, plus some links on the bookmarks bar of Firefox. That basically killed my need for bookmarks. I had hundreds of them and I'm still carrying them with me but they are buried in the bookmarks menu and seldom see the light. At best they are helping firefox at completing urls when I start typing them, but that could be from the history. I've got some pages pinned in the home screen of Firefox on my phone, a few bookmarks just in case the browser give priority to them when I type in the url. The sets of pages I use both on desktop and on phone don't overlap much. Technical documentation is on desktop, HN is on both. I surely don't want to sync tabs, bookmarks maybe (wouldn't harm me) but years have proven that I don't need it. If I want to send a page to the other device I share it with gs/kdeconnect. It works also between mobile devices with the laptop off.

imiric 4y ago
> Do people really use their desktop bookmarks on their phones, and how? Sure. I routinely add things to Pinboard, and check it on mobile. I often look up things I found interesting, but don't remember the link. Finding categories of things using a combination of tags, and being able to drill down further by adding more tags, is very powerful and convenient. I never understood how tab pinning in a certain browser is manageable for hundreds or even dozens of sites, where any sort of syncing across browsers or platforms becomes a chore. I use 4 browsers on 3 operating systems on a daily basis, and wouldn't be able to function without a central storage for bookmarks.
- pmontra 4y ago
  I can see how that would be difficult. I use only one laptop, one OS and one main browser. Sometimes I open Chrome to test things but I close it right away. No need for anything there. When I change laptop, not very often, I copy the mozilla directory to the new machine.
- lproven 4y ago
  > I use 4 browsers on 3 operating systems on a daily basis, ^^^ This! ^^^ I use Waterfox for general web stuff and Chrome for Google Apps, on Linux and macOS; Firefox and Edge when I have to use Windows. I have 2 work laptops, and 3 main home laptops; all dual-boot 2+ OSes; and a desktop iMac. It's a lot of stuff to keep in sync, and Mozilla's Firefox Sync is not much help because it does't talk to the Chrome-based majority of browsers. XMarks was wonderfully useful but it's gone. So this is of significant interest to me.

imiric 4y ago

> Do people really use their desktop bookmarks on their phones, and how? Sure. I routinely add things to Pinboard, and check it on mobile. I often look up things I found interesting, but don't remember the link. Finding categories of things using a combination of tags, and being able to drill down further by adding more tags, is very powerful and convenient. I never understood how tab pinning in a certain browser is manageable for hundreds or even dozens of sites, where any sort of syncing across browsers or platforms becomes a chore. I use 4 browsers on 3 operating systems on a daily basis, and wouldn't be able to function without a central storage for bookmarks.

pmontra 4y ago
I can see how that would be difficult. I use only one laptop, one OS and one main browser. Sometimes I open Chrome to test things but I close it right away. No need for anything there. When I change laptop, not very often, I copy the mozilla directory to the new machine.
lproven 4y ago
> I use 4 browsers on 3 operating systems on a daily basis, ^^^ This! ^^^ I use Waterfox for general web stuff and Chrome for Google Apps, on Linux and macOS; Firefox and Edge when I have to use Windows. I have 2 work laptops, and 3 main home laptops; all dual-boot 2+ OSes; and a desktop iMac. It's a lot of stuff to keep in sync, and Mozilla's Firefox Sync is not much help because it does't talk to the Chrome-based majority of browsers. XMarks was wonderfully useful but it's gone. So this is of significant interest to me.