My answer: some bookmarks represent a significant time investment, for example, finding a specific spare part (3rd-party) for an appliance at home. I’ll bookmark that because I don’t want to do all that searching and comparing again.

Some of the old ones have been interesting to rediscover.

I do that too, for the same reason.

Those tabs haunt me like disapproving ancestors.

Somehow I find it extremely funny to read the low number of bookmarks followed by the huge number of tabs.

Seriously though, I get that when you find something that matches the way my brain works then that’s what I’ll stick with too.

Thanks for putting me on to SingleFile. I use Wallabag locally but I’m not sure if I’ll stick with it.

Lethal. I’m jealous!

Now that you mention it, I think part of the reason I ended up with so many is from trying to not keep tabs open. I also enjoy sorting them into folders. I don’t know why but it’s one of the more enjoyable things I’ve done on a computer in some time!

There are alternatives to Google, too. But I think anymore, once per year I’ll export my bookmarks to a local web page and wipe the slate clean in the browser.

I’m asking myself the same question! Some are for my career, such as portals for best practices etc. Many are for coding shortcuts I forget frequently (eg git cheat sheet ). I have a lot of fact-checking articles I like to keep hand to counter online disinformation. It seems I’ve been bookmarking videos as documentaries to watch later, I’m just realising. The rest fall into personal admin (banking, bus routes, local grocery delivery), languages and health supplements.

Honestly I just wanted to delete everything and start again!

Edit: oh, there’s a folder of fun stuff too like funny websites.

Thanks for the detailed comment. I have folders for shopping and recipes too. The shopping has lots of sub folders. Some of those things took ages to find (such as off-brand replacement air filters).

Very similar to my situation, both with the number of bookmarks and the number of years it took to gather them.

My reading list is separate from my bookmarks though. I just checked and there’s another 1,000 there by the looks of it.

I can relate to the barely recognisable bookmarks! Having a distinct work machine sounds good. Part of my problem is that I have one machine for work and personal use.

That’s incredible. I use quarter of that number for bus routes and local grocery shopping alone.

About 10 per year. That’s good going. I will be exercising maximum restraint from now on myself.

Who needs coffee when there is the anxiety of 100 open tabs! I have a friend who (somehow) only ever has one tab open. I only have 3 tabs open now, but I just noticed that I have several tab groups I completely forgot about.

That’s a nice number. And if that includes recipes then even better!

ADHD here too. Don’t know why I even bother lol

Teach me

That’s a sane number. You’re my role model :)

That is the funniest comment termination I’ve ever read :D

It sounds like you have a very clear system. That’s what I want to get to and am getting to.

I have been very diligent about saving bookmarks to the relevant folders, so on the surface everything looked organised. Only when I did the export I realised I had way more info than I could possibly ever consume. I’m down to under 300 now with the rest living in a HTML page/dashboard I can visit if I ever need to.