<story><title>Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?</title><text>How do you still use bookmarks? How do you organize them? Why are they useful to you?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Cyph0n</author><text>I have a ton of bookmarks, but I use them passively. From my experience, Firefox is the undisputed king of making sure anything you type in the address bar will be instantly checked against your bookmark collection.&lt;p&gt;For instance, maybe I&amp;#x27;m looking for a PostgresSQL tutorial. I start typing &amp;quot;postgres&amp;quot; and one of the bookmarks I forgot about from several months back appears. This approach has ended up saving me a lot of time over the years. Another cool thing is when a bookmark pops up when I&amp;#x27;m searching that brings back memories. If the site is still up, I get a free trip down memory lane :)&lt;p&gt;My collection is at least 9 years old now. I&amp;#x27;ve been maintaining the same Firefox database over the years by migrating it manually from version to version. Now it&amp;#x27;s seamless thanks to Firefox Sync. I get my bookmarks on my PC, laptop, and my phone. I have an Xmarks account as a backup, and for cases when I prefer to use Chrome.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aplaice</author><text>&amp;gt; From my experience, Firefox is the undisputed king of making sure anything you type in the address bar will be instantly checked against your bookmark collection.&lt;p&gt;In case people are not aware of this, prepending a * to your query will make Firefox search _only_ in your bookmarks:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;kb.mozillazine.org&amp;#x2F;Browser.urlbar.match.url&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;kb.mozillazine.org&amp;#x2F;Browser.urlbar.match.url&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;t5&amp;#x2F;Basic-Browsing&amp;#x2F;Awesome-Bar-Search-your-Firefox-bookmarks-history-and-tabs-from&amp;#x2F;ta-p&amp;#x2F;1485#w_changing-results-on-the-fly&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;t5&amp;#x2F;Basic-Browsing&amp;#x2F;Awesome-Bar-Se...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?</title><text>How do you still use bookmarks? How do you organize them? Why are they useful to you?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Cyph0n</author><text>I have a ton of bookmarks, but I use them passively. From my experience, Firefox is the undisputed king of making sure anything you type in the address bar will be instantly checked against your bookmark collection.&lt;p&gt;For instance, maybe I&amp;#x27;m looking for a PostgresSQL tutorial. I start typing &amp;quot;postgres&amp;quot; and one of the bookmarks I forgot about from several months back appears. This approach has ended up saving me a lot of time over the years. Another cool thing is when a bookmark pops up when I&amp;#x27;m searching that brings back memories. If the site is still up, I get a free trip down memory lane :)&lt;p&gt;My collection is at least 9 years old now. I&amp;#x27;ve been maintaining the same Firefox database over the years by migrating it manually from version to version. Now it&amp;#x27;s seamless thanks to Firefox Sync. I get my bookmarks on my PC, laptop, and my phone. I have an Xmarks account as a backup, and for cases when I prefer to use Chrome.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reitanqild</author><text>&lt;i&gt;For instance, maybe I&amp;#x27;m looking for a PostgresSQL tutorial. I start typing &amp;quot;postgres&amp;quot; and one of the bookmarks I forgot about from several months back appears.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Same here. Sometimes you find something really useful but you forget to bookmark (or in my case: add to pinboard). Then a few days later I realize and after a couple of minutes googling to no effect I start typing the parts I remember and FF narrows down until I find it. It also let me search for stuff that google at least until recently would ignore.</text></comment>