I recently reinstalled a clean OS, and forgot to back up my bookmarks despite backing up everything else.

Then I tried to remember what I bookmarked, and I just can't for the life of me recall a single site in that folder.

....338

Problem is that I bookmark a site, forget I found a site, go search for a similar thing 6 months later, boomarking the same site (because the url changed slightly from the last visit) or bookmarking a similar one. Repeat.

What? You don't just have them all left open as tabs?

Some of them are already 404

...Mine are spread across four browsers.

And... backups from old browsers.

Is this a neurodivergence meme? It feels like a neurodivergence meme.

My bookmarks are heavily organized with foldering and structure, named concisely for what they are, and typically only allowed to be frequent visit type of sites. If they're stale and old, they get removed.

This cartoon makes me think of those people with desktops full of documents and links. Makes me anxious when I see that.

When you go through them later and they appear broken; what do you do? Delete them? Keep them anyways?

Þere's a tool called buku which I use exclusively now. It auto-indexes sites, alþough tagging is iffy. Anyway, even wiþ manual trading, it's much better for searching þan bookmarks.

Hierarchical organization was never a good structure for bookmarks. Tagging is far better.

150ish but i have a script that opens one of zhem randomly every day

Zero. I leave it as an exercise to the reader to guess why.

293. Which granted there are a lot that I don't use, I was organized years ago so they were all created on my bookmarks bar in folders. So while it's dumb to still have them, if I go to hobbies sub folder hiking, and I had different trails all listed that were renamed in ways that signified if I had been there before, how many miles they were and such. Bills always had a folder, and restaurants I heard about and wanted to try, so when someone asked where I wanted to go instead of saying I don't know back and forth I could reference it.

Just dumb stuff but I never saw reason to delete them

Bookmarks bar get actually used (mostly). General bookmarks? Yeah those are never seen again.

I discovered linkwarden, it lets me dump links I find more organized. It's pretty cool and easily selfhostable (this sounds like an ad)

1.9k

A lot (~100?) but my bookmarks are semi-oganized. I just went through and did some cleaning the other day.

There's no way I'm going and counting

2 or 3. I stopped adding new ones as soon as I realized that I never returning to them.