I recently reinstalled a clean OS, and forgot to back up my bookmarks despite backing up everything else.
Then I tried to remember what I bookmarked, and I just can’t for the life of me recall a single site in that folder.
Problem is that I bookmark a site, forget I found a site, go search for a similar thing 6 months later, boomarking the same site (because the url changed slightly from the last visit) or bookmarking a similar one. Repeat.
19,497
That’s after removing a whole lot that was older than 10 years.
…338
What? You don’t just have them all left open as tabs?
Some of them are already 404
I am being called out here.
…Mine are spread across four browsers.
And… backups from old browsers.
Is this a neurodivergence meme? It feels like a neurodivergence meme.
Hoarding, knowledge hoarding
My bookmarks are heavily organized with foldering and structure, named concisely for what they are, and typically only allowed to be frequent visit type of sites. If they’re stale and old, they get removed.
This cartoon makes me think of those people with desktops full of documents and links. Makes me anxious when I see that.
Same, G-Suite stuff, Sports Stuff, Money Stuff is the largest one, work stuff, DND stuff, insurance bullshit, kid stuff, high seas stuff, and then some misc at the end, but it gets sorted pretty regularly.
A lot & they’re organized too
When you go through them later and they appear broken; what do you do? Delete them? Keep them anyways?
https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag
https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden
Create a local archive maybe?
The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine might be able to give you a glimpse into what was lost.
keep them. maybe they start working again
Some of them are bad bookmarks. Some of them are good bookmarks, I assume. We have the best bookmarks. Thank you for your attention to these important bookmarks.
Even if I never open it again I save it to prevent that thing where you remember a site but can’t find it again via search. It comes in clutch
What’s þat term, dead internet? A significant percent of my links are dead. What I need is a sort of local internet archive, but hooked into my browser so every page I visit is archived like archive.is.
I’ve spent nearly a year talking to AI and architecting the ultimate data capture workflow from web to raindrop to readwise to obsidian among others… And I still have 300 tabs open to not lose for one day when I finish architecting and can save them somewhere
1 bar, 20-something-sites, used regularly. The rest are bookmarks from like 25yrs ago I never wanted to delete 😁
150ish but i have a script that opens one of zhem randomly every day
