I exported mine and searched for “http”. I got 1,882. Crazy. I only use about 20 regularly.
Looks like roughly a dozen or two (from a quick check) as far as actual bookmarks go. I use most of them, though there’s a few I should probably prune at this point. I have a lot of tabs in tab groups instead though (500-ish?). That works better for me with frequent screen sharing for work calls (keeping URL bar suggestions restricted to bookmarks only), and matches my way of thinking about projects I’m working on better as well.
I also save pages with SingleFile that I want to preserve for future reference instead of bookmarking – no point hoping they’ll continue to be online and accessible when I can just keep my own copy locally… Looks like I’ve archived roughly 200 or so pages in the last year like that.
Somehow I find it extremely funny to read the low number of bookmarks followed by the huge number of tabs.
Seriously though, I get that when you find something that matches the way my brain works then that’s what I’ll stick with too.
Thanks for putting me on to SingleFile. I use Wallabag locally but I’m not sure if I’ll stick with it.
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Yes, web browser bookmarks (or favourites).
I never was any good at using bookmarks but I currently I have over 100 tabs.
I never leave tabs open. Rarely, when I’m researching something, I might have ten or fifteen open, but when I’m done I close them all. I can’t stand them all sitting up there, mocking me.
In my desktop browser I have about sixty between my quick dial, and the menu bar.
I visit about 10 of them every day, and I visit most of them at some point during the week. I have folders on the menu bar for long-term storage, but individual bookmarks on the menu bar are short-term, ones I’ll want for a few days or weeks but know I’ll get rid of when they’ve served their purpose. But, now that I look at it, some of the individual…
You know what? It all makes sense to me, I know where everything is, and I’m happy.
That is the funniest comment termination I’ve ever read :D
It sounds like you have a very clear system. That’s what I want to get to and am getting to.
I have been very diligent about saving bookmarks to the relevant folders, so on the surface everything looked organised. Only when I did the export I realised I had way more info than I could possibly ever consume. I’m down to under 300 now with the rest living in a HTML page/dashboard I can visit if I ever need to.
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ADHD here too. Don’t know why I even bother lol
Why search for http? Do you have Gopher or Usenet links too?
The export contains all the bookmarks in one file. So searching for ‘http’ gives a total count quickly. I do have gemini:// links too, but not in that browser :)
Uh, 27. I can’t remember the last time I opened one.
Teach me
Sorry I don’t know how to teach having a poor memory.
40-50. The recipes are the only ones I check regularly. The others are just references.
That’s a nice number. And if that includes recipes then even better!
About 100 use each at least ounce a month even if only to check the site. Use them to keep track of many sites and interests.
I have close to 100. They’re like books on a shelf. If I read a good book I put it on the shelf even though I’m not likely to ever read it again.
That’s interesting. A lot of mine probably fall into that category. I’m exporting them to a HTML file that I can browse like a website.
At work I have what I need and trim what I don’t use. It’s organized and in a good enough state to share with new employees.
At home I don’t remember what half the bookmarks are for, and the other half are for long-abandoned projects. No idea how many there are
I can relate to the barely recognisable bookmarks! Having a distinct work machine sounds good. Part of my problem is that I have one machine for work and personal use.
Why would I want to dig through folders of bookmarks when I can type 3 characters in the url and have my browser suggest the right page for me?
My answer: some bookmarks represent a significant time investment, for example, finding a specific spare part (3rd-party) for an appliance at home. I’ll bookmark that because I don’t want to do all that searching and comparing again.
Across all platforms and browser instances, I have about 40 to 50 in total (I don’t feel like actually counting them) and I think I use more than half of them every day. The rest are things I either use occasionally or that I want to use eventually but currently don’t or can’t.
2547, according to chrome://sync-internals, that I have built up around 15-20 years. I treat my bookmarks as more of a “read later” thing though, and a good chunk are also potential recipes and gaming guides. There’s only 1 that I use almost daily, due to it being work related.
Very similar to my situation, both with the number of bookmarks and the number of years it took to gather them.
My reading list is separate from my bookmarks though. I just checked and there’s another 1,000 there by the looks of it.
I have 440+ but they are leftover from when i actually used them, I haven’t used the bookmark feature in at least 12-15 years now.
I have a feeling most of them are from an old addon that I had, because I think it abused the bookmark feature in order to keep browser sessions.
Some of the old ones have been interesting to rediscover.
