[icc97]

Hi my name's Ian and I'm a digital hoarder.

I totally agree on the digital hoarding. Just so happens that my mum is a physical hoarder - and that is much worse than a digital one.

I have 10872 links inside pinboard.

I think there is a big connection between my timewasting and wanting to hoard links.

I've managed to trim down any other bookmarking applications so that I just have pinboard. I'd highly recommend this, pinboard is beautifully simple and keeps very focussed on doing nothing but bookmarking. So that at least you don't waste any more time than just bookmarking.

Most people here seem to advise about ways of making it easier to bookmark things.

I however have tried to make it harder for myself to bookmark things. I've deleted all the shortcuts / browser plugins that I had to quickly save and tag things. So the only way to add URLs is to do it by going to pinboard itself and manually typing in the URL and title plus tags.

It's a small hurdle but it does slow the flow.

Edit: this got my bookmarking down from 5-20 a day to 2-3 a day.

Now I just need to find my local bookmarking anonymous meeting.

[Dowwie]

Have you ever taken a hiatus from new content and focused on reading what you've bookmarked? Has the bookmarked material ever served a use?

[icc97]

No never, I could never read all that I've bookmarked.

It's purely there so that if I have a problem and I vaguely remember that I came across a solution that there's half a chance I can search for it in my bookmarks and find it.

It does serve a use on occasion - I typically star a bookmark that I came back to.

I've starred 74 out of the 10000 bookmarks that I've got. But I've been bookmarking for 10 years and only 'starring' things for about a year.

So ~7% (74 / 1000) I come back to.

[Dowwie]

You are confirming that you don't use the bookmarked material as resources to solve your problems and recognize how challenging it would be if you were to do so. :)

I gave up relying on starred repos as resources and just give them for recognition. I find repos just fine when I actually need them.

I wrote a github star purge script that would blow your mind if you were to use it -- no more stars!

[icc97]

I'd say I'm confirming that I use the resource about 7% of the time.

I use github stars in a similar fashion to you - just recognition. It's also kind of like Hansel and Gretel's breadcrumbs - it's just a note to say 'I was here' to myself on the github repo.

I'm using pinboard stars differently though - it actively means that I've come back to that resource, it would be as if you could give a gold star to a github repo if you actually downloaded the code. I guess you could fork it, but I only fork something if I want to make changes rather than just use it.