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by SeanMacConMara 3293 days ago
Think of it as stocking a library. You're not supposed to read an entire library.

I use Firefox and the "PlainOldFavorites" add-on. This means each bookmark is created as an individual .url file in the Favorites folder. Once a week or so I go through it and delete or move each .url file to the most appropriate folder in my personal library of topics. i.e. If I bookmark something about a new kind of map projection it goes in the ref/cartography folder. This folder can contain any kind of file from any source (i.e. saved html, epubs, software, csv files etc etc). If I want to know something about cartography, I look in my own library first as it's typically focused on resources I value most. I also have folders called "must read today/this week/this month/this year"

I easily have 10,000's of urls filed away like this. This also has the bonus of being private, backup-able, offline and with no external dependencies.

I posit that any sizeable (personal scale) media storage system that separates media by type is obsolete with digital media. A separate system for bookmarks, file-typeA, file-typeB, etc means you have to search multiple isolated db's for each search.

Notes

Post XP, Windows handling of the .url file association is a dumpster fire. Just drag n drop the .url file directly onto a Firefox window to open it.

You can easily change the location of the default Favorites folder if desired.

If it's just a static document at the url, save it as html before link rot finally gets it.

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> If it's just a static document at the url, save it as html before link rot finally gets it.

Don't do it (as it saves a lot of files - js, css, images, besides some of those could have malicious code...). Just pdf-print it in Chromium and bookmark that pdf in FF with the same tags.