Bookmarks 🔖

I'm not a good bookmarker.

Ever since the aeons of my web browsing history (aka the year 2000), I've collected bookmarks. I've found wonderful things out there. Oh man, I certainly have.

But do you think I actually held on to those fine bookmarks from bygone days of an unspoiled web? With so many Windows reinstalls in between? With so many bookmark exports I forgot to do? With so many browser switches? So many operating system switches? So much data loss? Of course it's all gone now. And I don't blame myself. I blame the act of bookmarking, that never made it easy for us bookmarkers.

It took the browser makers years before they added bookmark syncing. Years, before bookmarks weren't bound to browsers installations any more, when the only way to move them was in static HTML files.

Not only the syncing issue made it difficult for us to bookmark. Add to that something, that is still bothering me today: maintaining a system of bookmarks. Oh, how much work is involved to properly organise your bookmarks. How do I categorise them so I can retrieve them again with ease? How do I establish a system that not only works today, but also ten years from now? Everything is about to change for the better, as I'm trying to establish PARA in all digital areas of my life. Well, at least I hope that it will declutter the mess that I have made over the years.

I wonder how others cope with bookmarks. I'd be happy to know that there's people who are lucky enough to still have the bookmarks that they saved twenty years ago. Do you bookmark at all? Do you have a working system? Do you save them in the browser or use bookmark managers such as Raindrop.io? Are you looking for a better way to bookmark just like I do? Or maybe you don't care at all.

Someday, I'll be a good bookmarker. If you feel you can support my journey, feel free to reply by email. ✌️