organize my bookmarks

Done. : )

But I’m thinking about putting them on Delicious, too.

Hmmmm…

Even though it’s not at the top of my list, I’m actually making headway on this :D , mainly due to doing a bit at a time whenever I’m at the computer.

• Have deciphered the Firefox organization panel
• Started using separators in the menu to divide folder types
• Shifted a load of bookmarks to their correct folders, to be sorted later

the only thing I’m bookmarking in Firefox is what’s on the tool bar – everything else goes into google bookmarks – the tricky part is figuring out the organization in g bookmarks – it’s not that intuitive – just need to get into the “weeds” to do this activity. ugh..

Firefox upgraded their browser, and the bookmark organization tool is completely indecipherable to me.

I’ve been putting this off forever. I found my delicious account password and decided to upload everything onto there so when I move and buy a new laptop I can access everything.

I organized most of my bookmarks while listening to the debates.

I started with a little over 300 web-based bookmarks and 900 (gulp!) bookmarks on IE. I now have 220 web-based bookmarks and 600 bookmarks on IE (75% of which are in a folder called Archive and won’t clutter up anything).

A big help with reducing the number was the program AM-Deadlink. It will tell you when you have a link that gives a File Not Found or some other error. It doesn’t recognize if your old link is now owned by some pseudo-search engine that wants you to click on advertisers, but it is still very useful. Thank you, namealreadytaken, for the tip!

Besides getting rid of dead links, I think the real value will come with using a web-based service (Del.icio.us) that isn’t slow/unresponsive with whatever made my trouble with Backflip. (I’ve loved Backflip for at least 9 years, way before “social bookmarking” was really popular, and hated to give it up, but I think this will be better for me.)

I thought I had a lot (just over 300 on Backflip, not sure how many on my computer), and then I read about someone else’s 6,000….

One thing that I did that helped a lot in 2006 was create a folder called “Archive 2006” and dump nearly all existing bookmarks into it. I think I’ve used it maybe three times since then. But it kept me from a) having to plow through everything in the world to find stuff), b) getting all frantic about throwing them away.

Today I got frustrated that Backflip was slow/unresponsive again (it could just be it doesn’t like my browser settings or something, I don’t know), and dumped everything from Backflip into Del.icio. I’ve been re-naming and deleting tags. I think it’s going to be an improvement. But the perfectionist in me wants to try out all the bookmarks that I’ve had for ten years to see if they still work, and I have a feeling that would be a lot of effort for relatively little gain. Maybe I’ll check out what people say who have done it and say it’s worth doing.

I think I’ll kind of miss the folders on Backflip. Maybe I’m just not used to tags yet.

ETA: Coolness! I was reading from someone who has already done this, and they talk about a program called AM-Deadlink that will check your bookmarks for dead links. That could save some time!

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