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by theootz 4975 days ago
Related to bookmarks...

I no longer use Firefox and have long since switched to Chrome, but in doing so my bookmarks have become effectively useless. What I mean by this is, in Firefox, one of the greatest (and probably underused) features was the ability to tag individual bookmarks instead of simply pushing them into a single folder.

This meant that, when I wanted to revisit a bookmark later on, I simply had to start typing in the tags (which I always made broad and diverse). By typing in more and more tags that I thought would likely relate to the article I wanted to reach, it would narrow it down. I never had to remember what the article was called, or where it was, or anything like that.

Now if this automatically happened while bookmarking? Some intelligent manner in which the page could be skimmed for keywords or something. Bookmarking and retrieval becomes much simpler...

Just wanted to throw that out as something to consider :)

(Now, one Chrome, I usually just leave tabs open or try to organize into folders and fail miserably :/ )

3 comments

Welcome to the club. Many of us have realized by now that none of the browsers are following any standards when it comes to bookmarks. The tagging is the exclusive Firefox feature and we were simply hijacked by it over the years. You moved to Chrome after using Firefox for many yeas (so did I) and you realize that your Firefox tags are not welcome at Chrome.
Tagging is indeed the best way to organize bookmarks and it's what we use to organize bookmarks in noteplz.com . Another useful thing i've found useful is keeping the page referer along with the bookmark (one of the few good things i can think of about referers) .
I use the Firefox address bar as a lightweight version of this. Since it searches URLs as well as titles of sites in your history, you can just type (parts of) words separated by spaces to find old content.