# How do you organize your bookmarks? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 14, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-organize-your-bookmarks/532417 "2010-03-14T03:06:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Captain\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-organize-your-bookmarks/532417/1 "2010-03-14T03:06:49Z")
One problem I often face is how to organize my bookmarks. I have a folder for my ‘daily’ websites, like Straight Dope, my email accounts, and a few others. I also have a folder for job search/posting websites. Then I have a third folder set up for good porn links, labeled ‘porn’ (hey, I’m an adult and proud of it, skeeviness and all. I just make sure my parents never visit and use my computer). The rest just seem to sit in the main Bookmark menu until I decide I’m never going to visit that site again and I delete it. How does everyone else organize theirs? I use Firefox, FWIW. ---
**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2010, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-organize-your-bookmarks/532417/2 "2010-03-14T07:49:19Z")
Folder for bills and financial accounts Folder for porn and other private stuff Folder for news sites and articles I want to be able to find again Folder for games and related sites Folder for vacation planning Mostly everything else–Wiki, YouTube, MapQuest, Merriam-Webster, SDMB–is either just loose in the Favorites folder or it’s on a toolbar, or both. I delete and refile a couple of times a year. ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-organize-your-bookmarks/532417/3 "2010-03-14T16:31:35Z")
I use Chrome, so the few sites I visit multiple times daily are pinned to my New Tab starting page. On my toolbar I have a folder for javascript/bookmarklets that I use often, a folder called “where’s steve?”, and another with links specific to clients (ie. basecamp login, etc). Everything else I pull out of the dropdown menu as needed. When I was using Firefox exclusively, I was very fond of the ability to assign keywords to shortcuts and would just type those into the address bar (any chance to avoid the mouse is a plus in my books). ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-organize-your-bookmarks/532417/4 "2010-03-21T05:23:23Z")
I have lots of folders. 20ish main ones, and about as twice many subfolders (for example the Links folder is broken down into “animals”, “calculators”, “photography”,“cooking” etc. Music has the subfolders “bands” and “music blogs,” Buy contains “seldom used” and “catologues” blah blah) including several new ones for my Fiction Research folder. I like folders. There are hundreds of them on my hard drive to organize everything possible too. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-organize-your-bookmarks/532417/5 "2010-03-21T05:38:06Z")
I don’t use folders at all. It’s all alphabetical. Since it jumps to the initial letter in question when I type that letter, I find that sufficient. And if it’s a long list with that letter, I simply type the next letter and then hit the Up arrow a couple of times. ---
**Author:** ![Rex\_Goliath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rex\_Goliath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rex_Goliath)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-organize-your-bookmarks/532417/6 "2010-03-21T05:57:31Z")
I can never think to keep them updated. If it’s cool enough to remember, chances are good I can find it with a quick googling. ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-organize-your-bookmarks/532417/7 "2010-03-21T20:35:46Z")
I use Firefox. Daily websites are on my toolbar, in the order: Livejournal and clones | entertainment, misc, and games | job search | email and To Do list | reference sites _(as a drop down)_ In the Bookmarks menu itself are the folders: - Reference: has subfolders for Food (recipes), WoW, Job search, and then everything else unsorted below that. - Shopping: has subfolders for Open (things that I’m currently thinking about buying), Clothes, and House, then links for my bank and my voicemail, then everything else unsorted below that. - Fanfiction (which actually contains everything fandom-related): has subfolders Harry Potter, M7, Misc & Multi, Recs, Stargate, and Bandom. Each of those has a WIP subfolder for unfinished stories that I’m following. - Misc: an unordered list of all links that don’t fit into the other folders. - Comics: a list of webcomic links, in order of how often I read them. - Open/… : Temporary storage for links that will probably be deleted once I’ve gotten around to looking at them. - Open/Bandom: Temporary storage for bandom (my current main fandom) links that will probably be deleted once I’ve gotten around to looking at them.