Of Bookmarks, Tags, and Browsers

Wed, 19 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0200

Buku bookmark manager and Oil bookmark search in action (editor: tilde).

I recently acknowledged the fact that I had 70 tabs open in Chrome on my Desktop and 110 tabs open on my mobile firefox browser. Even using tab-suspend plugins like described here did not hide the fact that I was starting to create quite a browser mess here. Being sometimes kind of old-school, I thought: great, let’s tidy all up and sort them into bookmarks. However, open tabs have some kind of to-do status for me and I didn’t want to lose this to-do idea. So I could not just file them away in folders, but I needed a tagging function to sort one and the same tag into several categories. Unfortunately using bookmarks is deemed kind of old-fashioned today: Why bother remembering if Google can not find it easily anyway? Therefore old folder structures exist, but the ideas of tags and categories only attracts very few people and therefore is also not well supported by the open source community.

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Of Bookmarks, Tags, and Browsers