My Favorites list is out of control. I have hundreds of entries in it. And I only actually visit a tiny, tiny fraction of then.
Fact is, for the stuff I go to regularly, I use the Links folder in IE. For the stuff I go to infrequently … well, in 95% of the cases, I go to Google and search for it anew, or I go to what I know is the top page and go through the site’s navigation (which changes so often on most commercial sites that keeping a link to anything deeper than that is pretty useless).
It is a puzzlement.
So I need to think about trimming down my Favorites folder, too. A spring housecleaning, so to speak. And some of the stuff, if it seems of more global interest, I might simply store in a post here, rather than in the Favorites.
By the way, if you keep a Favorites list of any size, have you looked at SyncIt? This service does a couple of things I find in-frickin-valuable:
- It keeps your IE Favorites (and Netscape Bookmarks) backed up on an Internet site. That has saved my butt more than once.
- It lets you access that list from any Internet-connected PC (which is the only time you’d want to anyway, right?). So if you’re at a friend’s house and you want to find something in your Favorites, you can.
- You can have multiple PCs synchronized to the same Favorites list. Your home machine and your work machine, for example. Add a link on one, it will show up on the other.
There is a fee — presently it’s a $50-for-life sort of thing (that applies to a given bookmark set, unlimited machines). I was, alas, hooked like a crack fiend when they imposed the fee, but on a prorated “what this means to me daily, weekly, monthly” kind of basis, it is dirt cheap.