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It isn't difficult at all. You just have to shift your perspective.

Now: Keep them in your browser, local to you. Keep the frequently-used ones right in front of you in the bookmark toolbar. For example, I don't rely on Chrome's Apps tab, so I have Gmail in my bookmarks toolbar folder called 1.Launch (1 because I have several others sorted accordingly).

Later: Link blog them (on Tumblr or G+ may be). Or you can even keep them local to you using above number 1 perspective.

Future: Don't worry about loosing the bookmarks you have already consumed and not going to come back to them anytime soon. Again, if you're link-blogging the content you feel you need to save, than you don't need to worry about future.

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That is neither easy nor a solution.

If it works for me then it is a solution, isn't it? As I said, it requires you shift the perspective. Bookmarking-on-the-server is an over rated phenomenon. People can keep the URLs locally to themselves.

I have no issues against you using your method, I'm glad it works for you, but I can't see how this could possibly help the majority of of people.

> Now: Keep them in your browser, local to you.

What do you mean by local, I wanted them synced with my phone and my three other computers, but I may have misunderstood you.

> Keep the frequently-used ones right in front of you in the bookmark toolbar.

How often do I have to rearrange them? Or delete them? Or send them to the later? Or should I just keep adding them to the toolbar until they naturally disappear and create an endless mess of unsorted bookmarks?

> Later: Link blog them (on Tumblr or G+ may be). Or you can even keep them local to you using above number 1 perspective.

Why would I, it seems so much more trouble? I'd rather bookmark them in a folder named later.

> Future: Don't worry about loosing the bookmarks you have already consumed and not going to come back to them anytime soon. Again, if you're link-blogging the content you feel you need to save, than you don't need to worry about future.

This is the one I disagree the most! This isn't a shift in perspective, it's ignoring the problem, I go back to my bookmarks months (years?) after I've booked marked them, and I'm happy to find them.

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Honestly I manage my bookmarks pretty well with chrome now-a-days specially with the built in sync system, I'm very happy I don't have to worry about sync anymore, I even have them in my phone all the time.

What honestly I think is missing is better search, you can only search by title or URL as it is. The URL of an old enough one is virtually impossible to remember and the title so many times doesn't help much either, you might not remember it or it might be a smart ass title that is not a good description of the topic in question, so many times I end up finding it quicker in Google by inputting the text I remember rather that going through my bookmarks, since I tend to remember the essence of the article.

I think labels would also help since an hierarchical organization that would actually help would be insane, I'd rather write a couple of words referring to the article, but the truth is most of the times I can be bothered.

So yes, I agree with the author, it is not an easy problem.

> I wanted them synced

Both Firefox and Chrome sync. But you already answered this yourself.

> How often do I have to rearrange them?

You don't rearrange any bookmarks in your browser. Frequently-used links like Gmail, Twitter, Weather etc is something you keep in front of you all the time. These are links to other services you use daily.

The Read-later types, those you can simply either delete (from the Read-later folder) or you move to another folder when you know you have consumed them. It takes few clicks.

The reason you link-blog them on Tumblr or G+ is because you may want to revisit the sites to refresh your memory, or you may be sharing your link-blog with someone else (not necessarily the whole world though).

> I go back to my bookmarks months (years?) after I've booked marked them

There was an article not too long ago which suggested that people don't really visit their bookmarks but they think that they will.

The reason you can technically forget about your online bookmarks is becuase Google search is handy. If you can search your saved-bookmarks using tag words or other keywords, than you can do the same on Google. Again, the shift-in-perspective I am talking is already making sure that you are keeping the most important bookmarks (your tools, your read-later articles etc) closest to yourself. You are only ignoring the not-so-important URLs.

It's a solution for you yes. That's not the point of the article.

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