[a3n]

I have finally found a workflow that works for me, and I'm slowly converting my thousands of unusable bookmarks (I'm a hoarder).

I use pinboard (delicio.us clone) and firefox.

pinboard lets you tag a bookmark, and you can subscribe to a tag's rss feed, or a combination of tags' feed. It's pretty clever.

firefox has a "live bookmark" feature, where a bookmark is really an rss reader of a specific feed. Peanut butter in my chocolate.

So for news sites, I tag them in pinboard as 'news'. For news sites that I want to read daily, they get an additional 'daily' tag. For news sites that I read frequently but not daily, they get the addtional 'often' tag. That's all in pinboard. I use a firefox extension to save pinboard bookmarks.

In firefox I have a bookmarks folder called news. Inside the news bookmark folder I have three live bookmarks, each pointing to one of my pinboard rss feeds:

  news #firefox folder
    news # firefox live bookmark pointing to pinboard 'news' rss feed
    news daily # pinboard feed for combo of 'news' and 'daily' tags
    news often # combo of 'news' and 'often' tags

In firefox I click on Bookmarks/news/news often, and I see the list of all pinboard bookmarks that have been tagged with both 'news' and 'often'.

And since it's pinboard I can access them from anywhere, any browser, no synchronization required.

Now I actually use my bookmarks.

[a3n]

And, to manage lots of open tabs strictly in firefox, use tab groups: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups-organize-tab...

Basically you can divide your open tabs into groups, and then only have one group open at a time. You can easily switch between groups. That way I can switch focus between different subjects that I'm studying.

Unfortunately pinboard can't see firefox tab groups, it only sees all the tabs in all the groups. It would be nice to use pinboard to "save all tabs" for just the currently opened firefox tab group. Maybe some day.

[a3n]

More firefox and pinboard bookmark management.

The firefox pinboard extension (and probably other browsers' pinboard extensions if they exist) lets you "Save tab set". So if you want to save a huge set of open tabs (guilty) and change focus, do that and give the set a name.

You can then, later, come back to the tab set. You can open them all back into tabs, or edit the list, or open one tab at a time. I wish you could attach tabs to bookmarks in a tab list, but it's not too bad to have to open a single mark/tab and then tag it.

[malandrew]

Since you are a Pinboard user, do yourself a favor and try out Shiori. Best pinboard utility I've used thus far.

http://aki-null.net/shiori/