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After trying and failing for various years to find the perfect system, I've since landed on the most dead-simple system possible: aggressively organizing my bro

by rewgs 4y ago

After trying and failing for various years to find the perfect system, I've since landed on the most dead-simple system possible: aggressively organizing my browser's bookmarks. As one might assume, it's a few general categories progressively broken down into more and more specific folders. For instance: tech/programming/command line/editors/neovim/plugins. The one "magic" thing I've figured out is to put "_to check out" folders in various places. So, in the above example .../plugins/_to check out is for neovim plugins to...well, check out, but then .../editors_to check out is for new command line editors. Not that there are many of those, but you get the idea. The other "magic" thing to make this actually work is to, rather than immediately going to HN or Reddit or whatever, instead I pick whatever category tickles my fancy at the moment and then find something in the _to check out folder. I recently had the idea to write a little app that grabs a few random bookmarks from the various _to check out folders and serve them to me in the morning. I think that'll tie the whole together nicely.

LunarAurora 4y ago
If you are on a chromium based browser, I found these extensions to help dealing with large collections/hierarchies : - Adding Faster to a specific folder with keyboard -> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/faster-bookmark-add-bookm/fibadljlplamppipiebabkdehecpabce https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/faster-bookmark-ad... - Tagging simply by adding #tag to the title. -> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmark-tags/edpeidcfjfmepdgdjnodefckgdjbigem https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmark-tags/edpe... - Sorting/Searching using more powerful filters -> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmark-manager-plus/pfbeenngglcojppheoegjjjomfkejibg https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmark-manager-p... So instead of using a series of "_" folders, What I do is I append #tocheck to title, then I can also sort/filter them by date, folder, url...(and add other tags like #5stars, #ProjectC...)
- rewgs 4y ago
  Tagging and all that is great, but that’s helpful if you’re more into searching and less into manually maintaining. I actually prefer my system over tags precisely because it requires that I traverse the folder hierarchy and don’t simply search. This way, I constantly run into stuff I can let go, see better ways of organizing things, etc. Likewise, I’ve eschewed automatic money trackers in favor of paper receipts, a meticulously organized spreadsheet, and weekly financial check-ins with myself. There are times when automation IMO actively works against the intended purpose, and these are two of them for me. And this is coming from someone who’s (like many on HN) obsessed with automation.

by rewgs 4y ago

LunarAurora 4y ago

If you are on a chromium based browser, I found these extensions to help dealing with large collections/hierarchies : - Adding Faster to a specific folder with keyboard -> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/faster-bookmark-add-bookm/fibadljlplamppipiebabkdehecpabce https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/faster-bookmark-ad... - Tagging simply by adding #tag to the title. -> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmark-tags/edpeidcfjfmepdgdjnodefckgdjbigem https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmark-tags/edpe... - Sorting/Searching using more powerful filters -> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmark-manager-plus/pfbeenngglcojppheoegjjjomfkejibg https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmark-manager-p... So instead of using a series of "_" folders, What I do is I append #tocheck to title, then I can also sort/filter them by date, folder, url...(and add other tags like #5stars, #ProjectC...)

rewgs 4y ago
Tagging and all that is great, but that’s helpful if you’re more into searching and less into manually maintaining. I actually prefer my system over tags precisely because it requires that I traverse the folder hierarchy and don’t simply search. This way, I constantly run into stuff I can let go, see better ways of organizing things, etc. Likewise, I’ve eschewed automatic money trackers in favor of paper receipts, a meticulously organized spreadsheet, and weekly financial check-ins with myself. There are times when automation IMO actively works against the intended purpose, and these are two of them for me. And this is coming from someone who’s (like many on HN) obsessed with automation.