I have a collection of bookmarks, that I haven't quite gotten around to organising! And they span about three machines and many web browsers. In their current

I have a collection of bookmarks, that I haven't quite gotten around to organising! And they span about three machines and many web browsers. In their current state they aren't brilliantly useful for me. I've always thought that bookmarks are a great idea. It's the bookmark interface in the browser that sucks. I think people use tabs a substitute for bookmarks for that reason. A tab is more in your face than a buried bookmark. It's a visual reminder. Turning off the bookmark bar might be a good idea, if it's full of links that you barely touch. Would it not be a better idea to use that space for your most visited sites, or to list your recent history, or a filtered history? The one time the browser bookmark bar was invaluable for me was when the keyboard broke on my computer. I could still surf the web quite well up to a point. It's all very well saying abandon bookmarks. But free searching requires you knowing what you want to search for. Bookmarks can be mnemonics. Sometimes we need prompting and/or signposting. If I read something on the web, like a tutorial, and I think it has value. What chance do I have of remembering every domain/url, or even the magic keywords that got me to the article in the first place? That's when I find bookmarking useful. Recalling that bookmark is the tricky bit. As I see it, browser's are focusing on rendering and javascript performance, and neglecting the actual user interface.