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by jspiros 4840 days ago
For my bookmarks, I got lazy and now just use Firefox/TenFourFox/Iceweasel with a local sync server. So, I use Firefox's system, which allows for hierarchical and tag-based organization, and searching based on title. Prior to that, I used Delicious, which also had tags, and searching.

I can't speak for anyone else, but these days I use bookmarking as a contingency, in case I remember later and need or want the link to whatever. So, I'll bookmark just about anything and everything I might possibly remember, regardless of real value or intention. In the past, I used bookmarks to represent an active intention to go back and follow up on whatever, so I would carefully curate and organize my collection.

Your project seems like it would be very useful for the latter. And these days, for me, the latter comes up most often when I also intend to share the collection with others. For example, sharing a set of bookmarks to websites covering candidates or ballot issues in a local election.
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FredBrach 4840 days ago
Very interesting. Is there two typical usages, or a continuum whose two poles are what you describe? Do you never use again bookmarks as you did?

I thought a little bit about sharing and social but I didn't see exactly yet how it works, but I will work on that of course. Your comments will definitely help me to orient things, thank you so much for them.

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jspiros 4840 days ago
Like I said, I can't speak for everyone. I wouldn't be surprised if there were many different ways to approach bookmarks, some not even falling on a continuum between the two I described.

But nor would I be surprised if a lot of people took the search-oriented approach these days, as that's a common approach not just with bookmarks but with all kinds of content.

Personally, I very rarely take the intentional, curated approach. The example I gave, about sharing a collection of bookmarks relevant to local voters, is the only time in recent memory that I took the time to properly manage a set of bookmarks. And by "in recent memory", I mean in the last 5 years.

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