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by ORioN63 2227 days ago
I've been fighting my ~3000 (~70% untagged) bookmarks for a while.

Right now, I've gave up on silly tags like "Postgres" or "Python". Currently, I'm trying to adapt the bookmark concept into different uses cases. The main one is sessions, but I have a few others niche ones, like "read later" and "a tool a day".

Honestly, my takeaway from managing my bookmarks, is that, snapshotting a session, is the closest thing I have to a "hot" start. I instantly recognize what I was working on and I remember why I opened/kept open those tabs.

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I've had a similar experience.

I used to meticulously sort and tag individual bookmarks but rarely review them. Storing sessions and other "playlists" of bookmarks puts them in a form that I actually return to.

Plus this method takes far less time and effort than tagging and bagging pages according to an ever-expanding set of custom taxonomies.

I'm sure others have been using bookmarks this way for a while but it felt like a revelation to me :)