Last year or so, I decided to move all my bookmarks from my local machine over to del.icio.us . I know. I know. Seven years late to the party. I’ve had these bookmarks for a while. Like since 1994. I have a lot of bookmarks. 1178 as of right now.
When I uploaded them, del.icio.us autotagged them according to what folder they were in. (Folders! Ha! Completely unwieldy.) Of course all of them were imported as unshared and tagged “imported”. My first reaction was to go through, fix the tags, and then share all the bookmarks; but then I realized that life was too short to do that, so I decided just to fix them as needed. I still have almost 700 tagged as “imported”.
I still bookmark stuff, but then I realized that I can’t find anything in it. I have no idea what’s there. Bookmarking was essentially giving props to something at one brief moment in time, but now I have no idea what it was. I have so many, I don’t think I can honestly use them.
I think I want to get rid of them. Just get rid of them all. Then, add them back as I need them. Granted, I should probably keep some that honestly are hard to find. (UCSC reimbursement form! I’m looking at you!) But do I really need a link to:
- Creating Aqua Images in Adobe Photoshop
- CleanSoftware.org - Free software, no nasties!
- Dell Inspiron 8000 Debian Linux Setup
No. Of those links, the only one I visited more than once was the Dell i8k debian setup one. It used to be useful, but it’s not anymore. That machine was scrapped for parts, and I hate running linux as a desktop machine.
I backed up my bookmarks so I can reimport them, but really I think I just need to bite bullet and chuck them all.
