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It's not particularly deep or thoughtful, I just realized that the browser interface is not a good place to manage a large list of links. Almost anything else is better. I have tried a few different browser-based bookmark management tools, and they have always been lacking somehow. I started using Obsidian recently, so I am moving my bookmark archive into there. It's neat because you can right-click>copy a bookmark folder, then paste into Obsidian as markdown links, with the page title as the link text (I think it's Firefox doing this, but not sure. I had to get a "copy as markdown" extension for Chrome). I also use the multi-select "bookmark tabs" feature, and Firefox Sync to move tabs between devices. These three things in combination enable me to make closing tabs a regular, routine thing, because I now know that I can find them again when I need them. Instead of going into the black hole of my bookmark toolbar, they go into an Obsidian vault, a single folder full of markdown files. This means I can use my normal CLI tools and text editor (keyboard instead of mouse is a big part of the appeal here) to search, sort, and organize things. The detailed organizational principles vary based on the purpose of the bookmarks, and I think that's mostly a personal thing. I don't have some sort of well-defined technique, but for example I now put the "project research link dump" into the "project notes file" (where it obviously belongs, but I was too lazy to do this previously). I have a few different "optimistic learning links" lists, like one for productivity software tools, which I might randomly browse when I have some down time at work. Another for interesting-but-not-important-for-work videos on math, physics, CS. Now, instead of thousands of links and hundreds of folders, my bookmark toolbar can be used for just a handful of "webpages that I use frequently" - the intended purpose of the bookmark toolbar, as far as I can tell. Well, now I want to expand on this a bit in a blog post, but I'll have to come back to that. |