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Do You Still Use Bookmarks? (Open Thread)

Are Bookmarks Apart of Your Browsing?

How often do you still use bookmarks? 

Generally speaking, I find there are two types of browsing people.  You have those who still bookmark everything they find interesting, and then those who only bookmark what they need, and Google everything else.  A lot of the time, typing something into the search box might be a faster way to launch a web page, rather than searching through a bucket-full of saved links.

Take a stand, and leave you thoughts in the comments.  Are you pro-bookmark, anti-bookmark, or somewhere in between the two?

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  • Neeku
    All I use, is a bunch of open tabs that I keep there all the time (the ones that I'll need later)! For the rest of the sites, I just type in a keyword and firefox shows me the link. No bookmarks indeed! I do have a delicious account, but it's been ages I haven't used it!
  • I'm definitely pro-bookmark. Since Firefox 3 I rarely ever open the bookmarks menu item because the awesome bar auto-completes my url from my bookmarks.

    I also tag pages (which is a form of bookmarking) that I visit often so they show up as the first result in the awesome bar.

    The only way I manage my bookmarks is through Xmarks to keep them in sync between multiple computers. A must have extension if you are a bookmark user on more than one computer.
  • Bob
    I bookmark all the time, and I keep up with the management of my bookmarks (I do wish FF would make *that* a bit simpler) on a regular basis. If I have one that I don't use, I delete it.
  • Bookmark something that might be difficult to find (read multiple clicks) or I want it to show up in my awesome bar. Rest everything is for google.

    Although, if "Read It Later" is considered, I am a bit of a squirrel. :)
  • SingingSwan
    Once I discovered how to use this feature, I CANNOT live without it. Unfortunately, when I tried to organize said bookmarks last week, I lost about ten addresses to sites that I now have no idea how to find again. But, it won't happen again because now I know how to use folders. You'd think that by the time you get to be my age you'd know these things, but my grandson tells me I'm catching on fast!!!
  • PS.BTW.... "yes, I do still bookmark"... just not as often... :) !!
  • Now that's a really great question Mitch... "To bookmark... or not to bookmark" !! I started out like a lot of others and bookmarked every interesting thing I'd find thinking I may want to go back to it !! I found I had created a real monster by doing that... re-finding things proved to be more time consuming than just typing in the site... if I remembered it's name !! Tagging things I saved to make things easier to find would have been great... had I thought of that when I was bookmarking the site !! Then there's the thing of way too many duplicate bookmarks... in way too many places :) !! I had tried those FF add-ons for alerting me to duplicate entries... but that just messed me all up with trying to use "StumbleUpon" !! I always got an alert of duplicates even though I had not bookmarked that particular site... because it had the same "home' address... so I got rid of those type of add-ons completely !! So now I'm back at square one... too many duplicates... :) !! Now I am at the 50/50 split... deciding whether or not to bookmark... or just type the page name to make things faster !! So I think bookmarking is great for pages that you wouldn't go back to everyday... but then that re-opens the "remembering you have it bookmarked" issue !!

    Sooo... does this comment "enlighten" anyone on where I stand on the original question... which was "to bookmark or not to bookmark" ?? :) :)
  • hotelguy
    No.
  • hotelguy
    I never use bookmarks. I use the Speed Dial addon for those sites I will visit frequently. Speed Dial opens in a new tab and in Speed Dial you can create tabs to organize the sites you want to 'bookmark'. Check out out a screen capture here:
    http://screencast.com/t/OWNiMjhjM2Qt

    Otherwise if I come across a site I may or may not want to visit later I right click and use Send Link which filters to a folder in my email.
  • somebody
    i bookmark pages i dont want to lose or forget sometimes even the ones that can easily be gooled
  • Operadude
    What is internet "Speed Dial", an add-on?
  • C.D.ones
    I use bookmarks all the time.I would be lot without them
  • I use bookmarks a ton. I also use Speed Dial to visit the sites I use every day.
  • JK
    I am also using bookmarks for quick access to a few websites that I frequently visiting. For me it is very handy.
  • I use a mixture of Speed Dial and Instapaper. Speed Dial holds the sites I visit EVERY day and Instapaper, usually for things that interest me while surfing another topic. If Instapaper gets too full, I use there folder system as a kind of GTD set-up, pushing the least interesting things to the bottom.
  • Bruce W. Fowler, Ph.D.
    If P > 0.5 of returning, bookmark.
  • Martha
    I bookmark sites I go to often: clubs, motels; or sites I find interesting and know I'll never remember the name of it again. I google all the time as well.
  • I use Google all time but i use bookmarks too. I don't think bookmarks are a past thing. It's useful to have bookmarks with labels for specific things. And in some cases it's difficult to find again a webpage. So, i'm pro bookmarks and i love Google.
  • Yes.... I use bookmarks & have no idea to use internet without them. I'm totally dependent on bookmarks (and BOOKMARKLETS). There are several bookmarklets which offer same features as add-ons. I prefer such marklets over add-ons.
  • i'm not using them much.. i have delicious addon and there are useful info that is sometimes hard to find with google.. searching from tags goes faster.. and delicious has nice left side pane for searching..

    most visited pages are always open (using faviconize addon to save space)
  • Cornell
    I bookmark web pages so that I can find them again without scrolling through lots of Google search results or trying to remember where I saw the articles before. This helped a lot, including when I have later taken vacations. I organize my bookmarks to ease finding them.
  • Dave
    I use a combination of a Firefox add on called Site Launcher - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/... - and keywords for searches.

    With Site Launcher Ctrl+Space brings up a menu and then I can map bookmarks to a single key (F for Facebook, L for LoveFilm, H for Lifehacker, etc.)
  • Joel
    I only bookmarks websites I frequently visit. I don't bookmark individual articles. If there's something I want to read later I use the extension Read It Later.
  • Dan
    Never use bookmarks, I used to use them all the time - Bookmarked every single slightly useful site. Often saved a whole session to bookmarks so I could resume it later, whilst starting again with a new session.

    It got so clogged up, even when trying to keep it organized, that I've now ditched them completely.

    There's little chance I'll ever move back, and if there's a site URL I really need I will create a shortcut to it in a Dropbox folder for them, the extra effort it takes to do this is enough to only make me save the essential links that I need.
  • unekdoud
    My bookmark menu is alive and kicking.
    Not to mention I still use it to read RSS.
    Also, bookmarklets FTW (but accessed using awesomebar). Same for keyword searches, which take the strain off my search box (15 entries in my search box)
    Don't quite like having an empty bookmark folder. Feels kind of... empty.
  • Harry
    I put initials in the keyword field for most often visited sites. Then I only have to type the initial in the location bar.
  • Boris
    I,m using Bookmarks for quick access to sites provided by Surf Canyon(add-on for FF),ex. Page5 from main Google link. Sites for reading latter are stored in Instapaper.
  • I use Delicious integration in Firefox. Works well. But I'll still use Google to find something before remembering to look in my bookmarks.
  • Erunno
    I still use bookmarks for sites which are hard to find via Google without already exactly knowing the site and for things which I want to keep for later reference. Bookmarks allow me to sort information in a hierarchical fashion and tags allow me to define saved searches where a hierarchical order is insufficient. I don't think that Google can ever be a replacement for bookmarks or for a similar system which allows you to store references in some logical fashion.
  • Jm
    I using delicious bookmark.
  • I am so pro-bookmark that I ought to change my Cyberian nom de guerre to "bookmark247." No, not everything I find of value or interest ends up landing in a private Cyberian purgatory. The majority of my bookmarks are organized into folders or sub-folders. Bookmark management also extends to editing titles, URLs, descriptions, and even cross-references. Yeah, I take my bookmarks pretty seriously. I'd be lost without them.
  • roseman
    PRO-bookmark, VERY pro-bookmark. And pro-KEYWORD!!!

    Keywords RULE, type in my favorite nickname for the site and go. Keywords travel with Bookmarks. I can just type FFF in the address bar, hit enter, and i am at FireFox Facts (because i have made a bookmark for FireFox Facts and added FFF to the bookmark properties under KEYWORD. I have 15 years worth of bookmarks going back to Netscape 2, all organized and sorted into folders and sub-folders.

    KEYWORDS RULE !!!
  • alienkid
    oh yeah the 8-9 most frequtly visted websites are on my Homepage which is Fast dial.
  • alienkid
    Bookmark things but sometimes just keywords in the AWESOME BAR. Googie things I don't know the URL for bookmarks menu mostly for things I bookmark. BBar for feeds but now TB for feeds most of the time.
  • I'm only bookmarking the sites that I visit regularly, like Lifehacker or Gizmodo, I have them in my bookmark toolbar. For stuff that I find interesting I want to read it later, cos I don't have time or the text is really really long, I use Read It Later add-on :)
  • xxxevilgrinxxx
    I bookmark everything. I might never visit that bookmark again, but if I found it interesting, I'd like the option of going back without trying to think of that place that I went that day to look at that thing that I thought was interesting :)
  • I think I'm somewhere in between. Google is my go-to source a lot of times. But I do favorite (or "star" or whatever) items in Google Reader, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and so on for the purpose of getting at them quickly in the future.
  • The only reason I bookmark something is to put it at the top of the autocompleted URL bar (firefox/chrome).
    I only use a bookmark system for "temporary bookmark", when for example I'm at work and see an information that I want to read at home for example.

    What I can see : people bookmark websites that they visit everyday, never "hard to find" websites.

    Power users use keyboard, clicking is a waste of time.
  • Brad
    I use bookmarks a lot still. I use Cybersearch with my awesome bar and just type in there for whatever I need. I also keep my bookmarks tagged appropriately so if a text search doesn't find it, it's usually tagged well enough so I can find it.
  • Qon
    I bookmark stuff that would otherwise be hard to find. I've deleted the search box (permanently :0).I'm using awesomebar instead because It has way better search functionality than the search box with all my add-ons.

    But I don't use my bookmarks, even if I have bookmarks awesomebar is used anyway because it's too hard to get my em.
  • Gerry
    I still use bookmarks for sites that I know I will revisit occasionally. I am not good with the keyboard but I drive a MEAN mouse. I have my bookmarks neatly organized so I can always find what I want easily.
  • Josh
    I'm a 50/50 split. Like i might book mark stuff that i want to revisit later. Things that i know i can refind easily, i won't mark.
  • Bookmark the essential/hard to find; google everthing else.
  • yes, i still use it.
  • I don't. The only reason i would bookmark something is for it to show up in the awsomebar when i type something in there.
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