Bookmarks
After a chat with others about web browsing the other day, I suddenly realised that I don’t use bookmarks at all. Ever. It’s completely empty.
I’m a creature of habit - I only check a few pages daily and these are all listed here (for convenience only; I can remember the URLs) - this page is my home page all the time!
I think I’ve reached a point where memory and weblog combined have made bookmarks completely redundant for me. Any unusual websites of note I list here - any oft-visited sites I can usually remember. It also helps that I’m getting pretty skilled at using Google to find results quickly and accurately.
Is this common? Are any of you guys finding bookmarks completely redundant now?
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October 23rd, 2003 at 6:34 am
It’s half the reason I have a blog: to make a note about something I’ve seen on the web. The nice thing about a blog is that you can get to it from anywhere, unlike bookmarks.
November 19th, 2003 at 6:57 am
Sven,
Check out Powermarks. I too had given up on bookmarks, and I also use my blog quite a bit as a place to locate things I’ve found or talked about, but Powermarks is fabulous and has probably increased my productivity at work by 5% (no joke).
I blogged about it here:
Who needs bookmarks?
http://crocolyle.blogspot.com/2002_01_20_crocolyle_archive.html#9027484