Thousands. Unfortunately saving a bookmark has the same effect as entering a black hole for me. Potentially useful info I never resurface just because I tend to re-google instead of remembering it's there.

For the same reason I tend to leave tabs open so they stick a little more. But I have too many tabs open so I know that my model utterly broken.

Please help.

Just stop. You said it yourself, just re-google. Live goes on without bookmarks.

That makes 2 of us. What have you tried to solve it?

I had ~3300 bookmarks and just decided to bulk delete half of them that lived in random folders. Now i'm at 1400. Most of them are CS/tech/coding related. When I save a link I make myself believe its something important that I'll find useful in the future. The truth is I don't even know what is in my bookmarks anymore and I hardly ever go back to manually check what javascript article I bookmarked one year ago. Nowadays, I just use firefox awesome bar that, by default, searches through my bookmarks when I type something to search for. I also find tags much better at organizing bookmarks than folders and I'm happy firefox supports this feature.

417, managing them with my own tool [1]. It's a collection of links with a high probability of (re)visiting, structured in a folder-like pattern. For all articles, online courses, and other actionable items, I use Pocket/Todoist instead. And around ~10 browser bookmarks for things I'm using daily.

[1] https://darekkay.com/static-marks/

The demo is great. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks! :)

2000+ bookmarks.

If I need a specific bookmark, I press Shift + B in the browser and search for "linux SSH install" to get that particular page.

The reason I get that page is; I made a hashtag when I saved it as my bookmark. I try to come up with tags to find them back in seconds.

The reason I don't use FireFox tags itself is that if I imported the bookmarks into Chrome I lose the tags. And with my "solution" I don't lose them.

5008 on Pinboard, many thousands more in Instapaper.

I either find a use for them at some point, or I don't. Doesn't bother me if I don't as I'm not trying to process everything I come across, just putting them in a trusted system where I could find them again if I needed to.

I do find it useful if I have a personal research project in an area of interest to start searching with what I already have vs. going to Google. Most of the links I have are vetted either by me or a source I trust so they don't have a bias to who has good on page SEO.

On Pinboard.in I have 12983 bookmarks.

Many of them are recipes. Some are items on my wishlist. Lots of them are news articles, some essays. Lots of them are guides/tutorials howtos for Bash, Python, Linux, networking etc.

The recipes I use from time to time.

The IT-related ones I consult from time to time whenever I need them.

And since Pinboard allows for fulltext search it's quite easy to find stuff when I need it.

[Edit: One can also pay extra to enable archiving, so when articles are removed from the WWW one can still access them via Pinboard.]

Twenty, all in a single menu (I have set up no submenus), and all with a single word name in order that I can easily type it to use with a shell script that I use to launch the browser with loading a bookmark (the shell script uses SQLite to make a list of bookmarks if no name is given, as well as using SQLite to find the URL of the bookmark if the name is given). Occasionally I delete some, and occasionally I add some. I don't use the bookmark toolbar.

I've got >9k bookmarks, over half of them related to programming, collected over about 9 years.

At that scale, recall is indeed a problem, and one I've been planning a solution to for quite some time now. Think custom search engine with automated topic detection and tagging.

I've got close to 3000 bookmarks.

Almost all of them are saved as full text + PDF in my email (Gmail) inbox under separate labels like 'JS', 'Design', 'SEO' etc.

Gmail's search is pretty decent so it helps me find stuff that I am looking for quickly.

Zero. If I can’t remember it well enough to google it, I don’t need to see it again.

Most likely between 100 to 200 bookmarks. The majority of these bookmarks are sorted and placed in folders. It is just useful links for me - I do revisit them

less than 50, categorized in 5 folders as below:

1) google.com 2) office (all internal links like jira, wiki, stash, etc) 3) daily-read (hacker news, slashdot, etc. ) 4) archive (the links which I like and refer as notes when needed) 5) to-read (some links which I found interesting to read but don't have time to read immediately)

after covid lockddown 8. I finally got to clean up my bookmarks.

I had about 2k before clean up.

Cleaning up here is what i realized. 1. i am a full stack developer and i learned that any technical documentation i bookmark is mostly the first link on my google search. 2. while cleaning up most of the bookmarks were 404's lol. 3. i have a professional browser and a hobby browser. This helps me focus better and differentiate between bing watching youtube/9gag/ vs work stuff. 4. i saved forums links about a lot of stuff that i won't be opening in ages. It is like a Compulsive hoarding behavior.

Keeping things clean organized helps guys, do give it a try.

thousands, probably 20k plus. But recently archived and I don't mind because I never looked at them.