Do you never find a page and think, "ah, this will be useful for project X later"?
Keeping them all in my browser session for six months before I put it to good use is just unnecessary, so I bookmark it and find it later when I need it.
I don't use them because I have to know which pages are important enough to bookmark when I come across them first, rather than when I need them later.
Usually I rely on finding something in my history. If I need to get around to it at some point, I'll keep the tab open and I'll get around to it when (if ever) I'm closing a bunch of tabs in a row, which takes relatively little effort. If I bookmark it, it'll just sit there and I'll never think of it again.
I always wonder why people have all these bookmarks. I think the most I had at one time was 15 and that because I switch to another project halfway. As soon I extract what I want in one page, I close it. If it's something that is interesting, and I don't have time, I add it to my read-it-later list. And if it's something that I may often revisit, that's when I bookmark.
I don't. I arrived to the conclusion that just collecting everything I find interesting doesn't make sense if I never consume the resulting collection.
When I see something that could be related to a project I have, and I know that I will check it in the near future, I save a copy of the web content to OneNote. But mostly I stopped caring about bookmarking/saving everything that I find interesting.
I open them in a new tab and come back to them when ready. This ensures I’ll actually read them relatively soon. Bookmarks would be forgotten about by me and some more involved method seems like overkill.
Just speaking from my own experience. If I say to myself "Yeah that might be useful", I bookmark it, and probably never get around to looking at it again.
For the most part I simply... don't. Either I remember the address, because I type it in all the time, or I go search for it when I need it.
I have not used browser bookmarks in any serious way since the '90s. They kept getting lost, moving from one machine or browser to the next, and I lost interest.
Sometimes I do keep a file of notes as I work on a project, and I'll paste URLs in there if they link to relevant documents or services. For one project I collected so many of these links that I eventually posted them in the repo:
Well I have several browsers and do CTRL+D when I find something interesting, and the bookmarks pile up over the course of a year. After that, I export them through the browser to a HTML file that I then review after a year. Anything interesting, I keep for posterity. It helps if the URL is still active and not subject to link-rot. I avoid cloud services like Raindrop or Pinboard for my bookmarks since they could shutter without notice, and I prefer a local copy. Over time, I've organized all the URLs into neat categories so I can visit them at my leisure.
I generally don't rely that much on bookmarks any more. I find I can recall enough about a page that a few minutes searching on google is enough to find it again. So these sorts of mildly interesting pages don't get bookmarked.
Pages that I think might be useful for some task and that I'm unlikely to recall get placed into a comment on that task in trello. Overtime each task builds up a small online literature review.
Pages that fall somewhere in between get bookmarked but if they haven't made their way to trello by the time I next wipe my computer, they're gone.
Currently I just save it to my firefox bookmarks, maybe adding into a folder for organization. After that I forget about it and never see it again as it gets lost into the abyss of other bookmarks.
I don't go quite that excessive, but you can keep various projects and activities tracked pretty well. Instead of regretting closing a few stackoverflow pages (which will be a nightmare to search for even with local history) you can leave up the useful ones, so you don't lose them, and close it all once the current task / project is no longer needing them.
I used to make fun of people who hoarded them, but honestly sometimes just keeping that one tab open until you've exhausted its use is worth it.
yes, and that's what I normally do as well. I also bookmark docs that I know I am gonna access in the future. I just don't trust I will be able to find it again.
Not the OP but for general browsing, I use them as a sort of append-only log. History can be good for trying to find something fairly recently, but my brain works in a manner where if I can remember the approximate timeline of something, I can usually find it if it was within the last 2-3 months just by scrolling through tabs.
After that I usually bookmark them all and nuke them.
Realistically, part of the idea is that if there's something of vague interest, I middle-click figuring I might revisit it at some point in the future. Usually this isn't the case, but as I know it'll wind up in my bookmarks at some point, there's still that possibility. Sometimes it even happens!
I do something similar to one of the siblings' replies with work though. One window per project/task with all associated tabs (e.g. documentation). Usually these don't get abused as much.
I keep the most important ones opened in a Chrome tab until a read and save it to Pocket.
The less important ones I save to Pocket until it comes the day I get to read them on spare time or by necessity.
The ones I know I'll repeatedly query for info (like tutorials/technical articles/documentation) I save in a categorized folder on Chrome's bookmark bar
For me these kind of things aren't supposed to be "backlog", but more "library of things I'm aware exist". If I save/bookmark a few resources on X, that doesn't mean I intend to read all of them, but that I think if I need resources about X, those could be useful.
Keeping them all in my browser session for six months before I put it to good use is just unnecessary, so I bookmark it and find it later when I need it.
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