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Old 06-25-2018, 03:29 PM   #1
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What are your browser folders titled?

OK, here's my entry in the most banal - "you must have too much time on your hands" - ER topic ever:


In your favorite internet browser, what have you titled the folders in your Bookmarks/Favorites toolbar? Just looking at mine I realize that this says a surprising amount about who we are and what we care about.


I'll start. Mine are: Flying, Biking, Tools, Cameras, Automotive, Travel, Nature, Money, News, Weather, Media and Commerce.


The first 7 are all hobbies and contain forums and informational sites I read for fun (Nature is a pretty broad catch-all including sites related to birding, wildflowers, reptiles and astronomy).



Money, News and Weather are self-explanatory (though I have the ER forum in Money for some reason).



Media is my various streaming services and watchlists, and Commerce is where I put the various Ebay, Craigslist, Amazon and other E-commerce sites I frequent.


Put all those thing together and you have a pretty thorough synopsis of my life and interests these days. How about you?
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Old 06-25-2018, 03:43 PM   #2
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My most frequently visited folder is "Here Stupid." DW says it fits.
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Astronomy, beer, cats, FIRE, food, genealogy, medical, money, news, real estate, shopping, and weather.

Hobbies, finances, practical stuff, and trying to find a new house. Looking at them just now I should probably clean some of them out, now that I’m retired and some I just don’t use and are likely full of dead links.
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Oddly, I stopped saving bookmarks years ago (back when they were still called bookmarks!)

I just don't return to that many sites very often. Those few I do visit often, I just type the first few letters (earl...) and the browser fills in the rest. I do have a "home" page where I've put a bunch of links to things I commonly use. But even so, I probably don't use any of them 90% of the time.
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Oddly, I stopped saving bookmarks years ago (back when they were still called bookmarks!)

I just don't return to that many sites very often. Those few I do visit often, I just type the first few letters (earl...) and the browser fills in the rest. I do have a "home" page where I've put a bunch of links to things I commonly use. But even so, I probably don't use any of them 90% of the time.
Same with me.
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Wait, you can make folders? No wonder I can't find a darned thing.
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I don't have specific folder for bookmarked websites. However, I recently assigned a number to each website to keep them in sequential order because more frequently the links were somehow getting scrambled into alphabetical order and it was becoming a growing PITA to put them back into my preferred order and groupings.


The numbering sequence I created includes several groups of websites. They are:


100s - research items such as Google, maps, Wikipedia, YouTube, local library system


200s - banking, investments


300s - sports (Strat-o-matic and retrosheet)


400s - early retirement and investment message boards and blogs such as this one and bogleheads


500s - news websites


600s - websites for childfree people, as I am one


700s - TV shows I like such as law & order/SVU


800s - junk phone call websites such as 800notes and nomorobo


900s - Then I have some more websites which don't fall into any category.
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I just save bookmarks and don't bother making folders. The ones I use alot I put in my toolbar so they are handy.
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My most frequently visited folder is "Here Stupid." DW says it fits.


OMGoodness! I laughed and covered my mouth on that one.
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I’m impressed by how many of you are making folders. I use aja8888’s approach, but then I forget they are there and can’t find some of them later.
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I just save bookmarks and don't bother making folders. The ones I use alot I put in my toolbar so they are handy.
Same here
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I couldn't function without bookmark folders. I use the "bookmark bar" in Chrome, which keeps everything nicely organized, accessible, and synced across my devices. But I also use an extension called "Home - New Tab Page", which has 20 icons/links that I use much more frequently for sites I visit every day.

Anyway, my bookmark folders are: Search, Social, Fitness, Travel, Weather, News, Video, Forums, Shopping, Stocks, Financial, Real Estate, Cars, Computers, Music, Woodworking.
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I have 18 folders, many with subfolders. I don't really use all of them. Browsing through some is a nostalgic trip to the past. Others cover more recent interests and I use them more frequently.

No, I'm not listing all of them here! Too much like w*rk.
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