That takes time and effort, which most people don’t have. Most links don’t deserve that much of my energy, so that’s why I have only a handful of sites bookmarked. Everything else is chucked in the infinitely growing trash pile known as “history”.
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Son_of_Macha@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
They can’t organise bookmarks
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
It really doesn’t. There is literally a star next to the URL in the URL bar that you click once
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yeah, but keeping them organized in sensible folders takes effort. If you just throw bookmarks into an enormous trash pile, it gets hard to find stuff.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
You don’t need to keep them organized, just throw them on the bookmarks bar and it will always be under your URL bar, just not in a freaking tab
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
My bookmarks are organized. Haven’t used any of them in 10 years.
It’s a great idea that I like, it just doesn’t work for me.
Tabs in the sidebar do.
Unquote0270@programming.dev 1 month ago
For me it is not about being unable to organise them but once it is bookmarked it is basically gone from my sight and memory.
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yep, same. I should research solutions to this problem with a bunch of new tabs.
unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth 1 month ago
In my case, bookmarking things is something I do to remove it from my sight and memory, but not lose it entirely.
kratoz29@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
I am 33 years old (so not a new internet user) and I somehow feel bookmarks need a redesign… Not exactly sure how I’d improve it (tags, AI grouping? Daily bookmark to see section? I don’t really know) but if the site I have saved doesn’t show up in the FF search bar… It might as well be lost forever (and that feature is case sensitive).
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
AI tags could help. You still need to give them tags that are relevant to your intention, but an LLM can handle all the boring tags that are pretty obvious from the text itself.
twistypencil@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This. If I spend the time organizing them, I’ve spent more time on the tab than I originally wanted to, but didn’t end up taking care of what the original reason I have the tab opened was.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Bookmarks bar.
Unquote0270@programming.dev 1 month ago
Yes, and?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
There’s no reason not to use it instead of having a million tabs open.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
Same problem as bookmarks.
Mesophar@pawb.social 1 month ago
I want to ask genuinely, how is the bookmark different than a tab with tab grouping in this instance? I have the bookmarks bar always visible, and have folders organized on the main bar (rather than the drop down extended bar). Wouldn’t tab grouping do the same thing, just slightly higher?
Unquote0270@programming.dev 1 month ago
It probably is functionally not too different. I have the bookmark bar open but I mostly have all the sites I regularly go to there. Additionally, I have thousands of bookmarks from many years so wading through them for something I briefly saw and was interested in last week but can’t remember enough detail on to find isn’t very fun or easy. And where do I look for it? One bookmark could be categorised in many ways so I also have to remember where I saved it. Tags are good but I have too many for that to be very useful or quick.
I do use grouping as well, and I really like it, but this just causes me to have even more tabs because there is less pressure to trim down the endless list since I can hide them.