Community weekly poll: How do you organize your bookmarked or favorite Web sites?
- 6/29/05 11:01 AM
Bookmarking is too lazy for me
by colinrodman - 7/3/05 9:11 PM In reply to: How do you organize your bookmarked or favorite Web sites? by Marc Bennett
In an attempt to rid myself of an electronic addiction, I stopped using things such as speed dial and my PDA. While that didn't last too long, I retained the ability to remember the URLs of the sites I visit most often. If, by some odd chance, I can't remember one of them, I resort to me pack-ratish behavior and use the history bar.
Keeping track of favoriye websites
by Bkess - 7/3/05 9:19 PM In reply to: How do you organize your bookmarked or favorite Web sites? by Marc Bennett
Like many who have already responded I use a hierarchery of folders and subfolders for my bookmarks. For even easier reference I use a hierarchery that almost duplicates that of My Documents folders, and, to a lesser extent, my e-mail folders too.
Use My Yahoo for universal access
by miketkrw - 7/4/05 5:41 AM In reply to: How do you organize your bookmarked or favorite Web sites? by Marc Bennett
My problem with bookmarks is that they are only good on the machine/browser you use them on. I have 3 PC's at work,3 at home, one a Mac.
My solutions was to use Yahoo's My Yahoo portal web page which allows you to create a section with your bookmarks. I don't even bother setting them on the browser anymore. No matter where I am or what computer I use I can always access all my bookmarks.
Sorted into groups using foldersand then by frequency of use
by geedox - 7/4/05 7:13 AM In reply to: How do you organize your bookmarked or favorite Web sites? by Marc Bennett
I usually organize bookmarks in folders by areas of interest ie: webmail accounts, search engines, Miscelanea, New stuff, unclassified, etc. and then by frequency of use (most used at the top)
Can you organize the drop down "favorites" list into folders
by dldia - 7/4/05 11:08 AM In reply to: How do you organize your bookmarked or favorite Web sites? by Marc Bennett
Honestlt I would love to know how to add folders to my "favorites" drop down list in IE. Please let me know how.
Deane
Favorites-drop down
by ecanuck - 7/7/05 8:47 AM In reply to: Can you organize the drop down "favorites" list into folders by dldiaIf you have favorites on top toolbar click to display down left side of IE (if it is not displayed) In this section it says Favorites-----X
(next line) "ADD+" then "Organize"
When you want to keep a website URL click on "ADD" then OK in the Add favorites box. It then shows up on bottom of your favorites list. To organize URL's click "Organize" then click on "Create Folder" delete the "New Folder (in blue) with backspace key type new folder name you want <RETURN> click close.
If you don't like the name in your folder for that website (or if it doesn't make sense) move your mouse to the name in thee list when it turns blue right click your mouse hit rename now give it a better name.
I have folders for Weather, Cycling Groups, cycling shopping, outdoor groups,computer shopping and even one for C-net for specific pages I frequent.
Good Luck.
Organizing favorites
by ronmlvn - 7/4/05 12:15 PM In reply to: How do you organize your bookmarked or favorite Web sites? by Marc Bennett
I have folders that are in Alphabetically order, when I find a website that I like I add it to a folder that It would correspond too, That way when I need to go back to that website I know exactly where to look, I have at least 85 folders and all those contain anywheres from 1 to over a hundred websites, I find these the easiest way to locate a certain website.
Customized icons
by ronmlvn - 7/4/05 6:36 PM In reply to: How do you organize your bookmarked or favorite Web sites? by Marc Bennett
I haven't done it too all my favorite web sites, as yet, but what I was doing was right clicking on the website icon in upper left corner and saving the picture to a folder as bmp, then I would use my paint shop pro to bring up the icon, but would have to resize it small enough to work as a bookmark icon, I would then save it as .ico and then delete out the bmp icon, then I would go to the bookmark in my favorites and right click and properties and change the icon, to where I saved it.
After reading about this on this forum I found an easier way that was posted here, just going to IE Tempoary Folder, right clicking and copying then pasting it to my webicon folder, then go to the book mark and properties and changing it. I also now have downloaded http://aignes.com/deadlink.htm to go thru my folders and add my icons to the websites in my favorites, I want to thank you all for this easier method than what I was doing.
Organize by....
by John Piotrowski - 7/5/05 11:55 AM In reply to: How do you organize your bookmarked or favorite Web sites? by Marc Bennett
topics and sub-topics...alphabetically. Such as: Hobbies > Woodworking > Tools or > Materials
Geographic location
by heirdrier - 8/24/05 12:44 AM In reply to: Organize by.... by John PiotrowskiI have tried them all - well not ALL favorite organizers but have falen in love with Justurls. I have my favs batched into button files and just double click on the go tray button to swap to my groups.
What turns me on is that the buttons are exactly where my brain remembers them in the pop-up window. Like high or low as in Weather that I have near the bottom and Amazon as the top button. This is a KISS program for sure - witht the las S for sexy not stupid!
Things, Activities, & Ideas
by reidwhite - 2/21/08 2:28 PM In reply to: How do you organize your bookmarked or favorite Web sites? by Marc Bennett
Bookmarks are organized loosely into three groups
... if it's mostly about a THING/PLACE I put it in a folder called 1Kitchen, 1Workshop, 1Garage, 1Office or 1Library-n-Ref etc
... if it's mostly about something I DO I place it in a folder called 2Boating, 2SKiing, 2Arts, 2Music, 2Business etc
... and if it's not one of these I place it in 3Projects, 3Ideas, 3Designs etc
If a folder's too full then I make two if mostly empty I may eliminate or rename it, say Real-estate from the Business folder, or add a Drugstore for stuff I usually find there.
RULE: Don't make any more than you need ... School? Work? Country? Concepts?
I use a bookmark manger call Advanced URL Catalog
by idaniel_bv - 1/20/09 11:26 AM In reply to: How do you organize your bookmarked or favorite Web sites? by Marc Bennett
I personally use a bookmark manager called Advanced URL Catalog. It allows you to store bookmarks as folders and you also you can check the database for dead links.
I use Tidy Favorites
by EmilyJohn - 6/15/09 7:47 AM In reply to: I use a bookmark manger call Advanced URL Catalog by idaniel_bvhttp://www.TidyFavorites.com/
1. I create tabs and folders in its dashboard.
2. Save my bookmarks to the "stack" and leave them until I have time to drag-n-drop them to suitable tab or folder.
3. Save bookmarks as live thumbnails so that it's much easier to find images rather than text links next time.
4. Import all my existing bookmarks from frequently-used browsers (compatible with IE, Firefox, Opera and Chrome)
5. The program automatically syncs bookmarks between the browsers.
6. Use the available Portability Option to carry all my bookmarks on a flash drive.
More info on how to organize bookmarks - http://www.tidyfavorites.com/favorites/Organize%20bookmarks.html
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