6 ways to fall in love with browser’s bookmark again

August 14 by | 10 comments | Lifehack, Technology | Tags: , ,

Since I’ve started to use del.icio.us, I stopped to use my browser’s bookmark for a while. I love the online bookmarking tool because it gives me access on all of my links from any computers (at work or home) without doing any syncing – and I didn’t find a reason to continue using local bookmark anymore. Recently I thought of ways to utilize the browser’s bookmark system again, and I think those are pretty good ways to speed up my browsing experience.

  • Store the online bookmarking URL. This is obvious – it gives me a quick way to access my actual bookmark.
  • Store the daily visits. I remember all URLs on my daily visits by heart, but keeping those on my bookmark toolbar can give me the access immediately.
  • Keep all “Write Post” URLs on my various blogs. Quick access for me to write should I have any quick ideas for my blogs.
  • Keep still-to-sort sites. I do not want to pollute my online bookmarks with stuff that I will not reference later, so I will keep them into a “sorting” folder first if I am unsure.
  • Keep URLs for short-term. Similar to the reason above, I use the local bookmark to store those URL and remove them when it is not required.
  • Things that are irrelevant to others – no point to put those into my online bookmark if other people cannot utilize it – things such as web site stat pages and admin pages etc.

And I admit, I fall in love with my local bookmark once again. How do you use your browser’s bookmark on-top of your online bookmarks?

  • http://weblog.jcraveiro.com/ João Craveiro

    “Things that are irrelevant to others – no point to put those into my online bookmark if other people cannot utilize it”

    In case you want to have them online so you can easily access them everywhere, you can use the recent “private bookmarks” feature of del.icio.us. :)

  • http://www.52reviews.com Eric Allam

    Daily visits are perfect for local bookmarks, expecially bookmark bars (such as in firefox and safari). I have about 20 on there (no blogs, they are in my feedreader) that are all One word descriptions, but most of them are 2 letter abbreviations. I know that “Up” is upcoming.org, and “PL” is my plesk server, and “Ze” is Ze Frank, so on and so on. And I am very picky what goes on my bookmark bar, if I fail to use a bookmark much, its gone. This is also a great way to weed out sites that you dont really need to visit often.

  • http://www.shokk.com/blog Ernie Oporto

    Since using del.icio.us I have a real prejudice against using the local bookmarks. With bookmarks available from anywhere just by using your web browser, using local bookmarks feels like being forced to go back to sneaker net when you have a network at your disposal. It just doesn’t seem productive. I use the Del.icio.us firefox extension to help with this since it lets you separate the “tag this” and “My Del.icio.us” button to be placed on any toolbar.

    In fact, I don’t do any daily visits at all. A site must have RSS output for me to frequent it. However, I find it convenient to keep a couple of bookmarklets local for fast access. Google Browser sync helps with this, and it keeps all the bookmarklets on all the systems I work with frequently.

  • Brett

    I use local bookmarks almost exclusively for shortcuts and bookmarklets. If I type in “bl” I got to my bloglines page. If I’m on a page I want to add to delicious, I type “dela”. Add to bloglines? “bla”. Etc, etc.

  • http://fritz.winterfamilie.de/ Fritz Winter

    My number One: accessing bookmarks via QuickSilver.

  • Jake

    The new Flock browser syncs local bookmarks with delicious so you can use both. I have recently transferred all my bookmarks from My Web synched them with Flock. This is a great solution and has increased my productivity greatly. I highly recommend this as the “next step” in bookmark management. (PS I don’t have any interest in Flock, I just think it’s great!)

  • http://koke.amedias.org/ Koke

    Quick tip for safari: put the del.icio.us post bookmarlet and the “my del.icio.us” link in the bookmark toolbar, first and second position.

    Then you can use Cmd-1 to post a link and Cmd-2 to go to your bookmarks.

    I also use the toolbar with folders for everyday personal/work sites (bank, blog admin, documentation, news,…). And browser bookmarks to read/re-read in less than a week.

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  • http://blog.bookmarkbase.net Alexander

    I think that anyhow people use local browser bookmarks. At least for they staff they don’t want to share.

    They (local bookmarks) are inherent from browsing Web.

    Online bookmark managers are less useful for browsing experience. They are for sharing findings, maybe for back-ups but not for quick usage.

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