Hey all, as per the title, how do you guys do it? Do you guys use the JD system there too? I have about 1500 links and was just thinking of going through them in the future and seeing where they fit in the index [once I get round to compiling it] and then link them to a category there.
Appreciate reading your thoughts.
At the moment, the honest answer is theyāre neatly grouped in PARA categories, with total chaos underneath (which is a recurring themeā¦).
Iām in the process of implementing JD at work, and bookmarks are in scope. I think Iām leaning towards using the bookmarks note in each categories standard zeroes (canāt remember off the top of my head which that is) and maybe adding a bookmark tag so that Outlook can easily show me all my bookmark notes in one go.
Hi, I use Raindrop.io as bookmark manager. It is a cross-browser plugin that I enjoy using. The free features are more than sufficient for most user.
As you can see below, I have started introducing the JDex structure. It is still under construction. I think in the future I will use the group headers for collections for JD areas.
Iāll just say: I donāt! Mine are chaos. 
At work, when I had certain bookmarks that I needed to keep track of ā the timesheet system, the online training portal ā Iād put Markdown links in my JDex. I find the actual browser bookmark feature to be really bad. And also not portable, whereas I can just take my Markdown files with me.
Iāve started using Safariās Favourites instead of traditional bookmarks, which I never really used or looked through anyway. Iāve grouped my most used websites into themed folders like Courses, Work, Forums, etc. One of them, Life Admin, mirrors my usual JD Life Admin setup.
Itās a new system Iāve only been using for about a week, so Iām still tweaking things, but Iāve already noticed Iām using it every day. Itās simple, visual, and works across all my Apple devices, so itās become a really functional part of my routine and day not just a digital junk drawer dumping ground.
I use the same principle as @Jayde20 to synchronize my favorites on my different devices.
I organize by folders of favorites that represent my different profiles. These profiles are defined at the safari level. For example, when I am on my Ā“Financeā profile, the finance favorites appear on my home page. I can then access the tools and connect easily.
Apart from these favorite tools, when I have a content bookmark that I want to keep, I copy the link in the right place in my JDex Apple Notes in the correspondant note.
Last principle, be extreme minimalist. For a long time I managed thousands of bookmarks to finally realize that I never went back to them or very little. And that worse for ease I rediscovered them by searching on Google. So I switched my state of mind to minimalist digital hardcore:
I use very few bookmarks, only the ones I use regularly.
I browse my favorites at least once a year to delete the useless ones, those I have not used this year.
For the bookmarks in my notes, by reviewing my notes I recover and summarize the useful information and delete them.
If I see a link in my notes it is because the topic is in progress or that the link points to a resource that I really appreciate and that I sometimes come back.
As an example of thisā¦ in Chrome, bookmarks in the bookmarks bar are listed in the order you created them. You can go into the Bookmark Manager and re-order them, but Iām not aware of a way to flip the ordering from ālast createdā to āalphabeticalā in-use, while browsing.
One other tip in this world is to set your browser never to clear its history.
Then if you want to recall something that you viewed before you have a good chance of finding it by just typing some words into your URL bar.
Do some browsers have a good enough history search interface that this works? In my experience (fn. 2) itās next to useless.
If I want to be able to relocate something, I save the page with SingleFile in my general notes folder. So full-text search works on page contents, not just the title. This helps, but even better is to also add a note in my own words somewhere with a link to the downloaded copy.
Ah itās very much a ābetter than nothingā solution. But very often, no, I know I looked at a thing in the past and I canāt find it in my history.
Shaarli
That looks really cool, and Iām going to check it out and consider deploying it.
For me, though, such a service will always only be part of the solution. Itās essentially a more streamlined version of what I described above: archive with SingleFile and do full text search on filesystem. Maybe very much worth the improved ergonomics! But thereās still always the issue of integrating those links into your knowledge base.
This happens to me quite a lot. Usually, I discover I was just looking in the wrong browser 
I really think that there should be a standard bookmark API so that we could have a single list of bookmarks, maintained in an OS-level or single third-party tool, which would be exposed to any application (browser) which wants to access it.
A bit like password management apps but for bookmarks.
ETA: I know there are tools like Raindrop that serve as a central repository of bookmarks, but thatās only half the story. I still want to access links through my browserās bookmarks list, but I want the contents of that list to be populated from a central source.
Well, there is XBEL but it never caught on. AFAIK most browsers support the bookmarks.html format of good āol Netscape but usually only via clunky manual import/export.
