Bookmarks are links that you store on your Internet browser which take you to your favourite, and your most frequently visited websites. Bookmarks are automatically stored in the order in which they were saved, but your list of Bookmarks can be organized in pretty much any way that you want. The best ways to organize your Bookmarks are the ways that make finding your bookmarked sites the easiest for yourself.
Bookmarks can be saved within folders that are originally named by the browser itself, like your browser‘s name “Mozilla Firefox“, your internet provider, like “Bell”, your computer manufacturer, like “HP”, and then your operating system, like “Windows”. Then, your Bookmarks list starts listing the actual sites that you have bookmarked, in the order in which you have bookmarked them.
Using social Bookmarking is a newer and growingly popular method of saving your most cherished websites that you want to share with your friends and family that you have on your Face Book, Twitter, Windows Live or other social networking sites. Pretty much every website now has the Digg It, Reddit This, Stumble It, Mix It Up, Face Book or Tweet Me automatic Bookmarking links. If you use these social networking sites, and don’t mind having your contacts know which sites you visit the most, you can save your Bookmarks this way, but they will not be available to you through your web browser’s Bookmark toolbar option, you have to be in the particular social networking site to access them.
One of the best ways to organize your Bookmarks is to start with a few major folders, with labels like “Work“, “Social Life” and “Personal Favorites” being the three most commonly named folders. From there, you can organize sub-folders, which more directly relate to the sites that you have Bookmarked. For example, Social Life could hold such gems as School Related Sites, Favorite YouTube Sites and Volunteering Sites. The Personal sub-folder could hold your favourite Recipe Sites and Travel Related Sites, and whatever else you have a lot of sites Bookmarked for each of your personal reasons. Then, you save the Bookmarks that belong in each particular folder using your browser’s Organize Bookmarks option.
Since your Bookmarks are saved with your log in username and password, you can access them from any computer, and any smartphone with the required applications (apps) installed and running that allow you access to the Internet. And the reverse is true as well; you can access the Bookmarks that you have organized at work while you are at home, as long as you use the same browser, and the same log in usernames and passwords.
Most browsers allow you to import the Bookmarks that you have saved on other browsers when you download and install the browser to your computer, making it a lot easier to find all of the Bookmarks that that you have already saved on other browsers. The more Bookmarks that you have, the more essential that organizing them becomes. When you have to scroll through hundreds of sites listed in your Bookmarks section of your Internet browser, it can take some time to find the site that you are looking for.
The best ways to organize your Bookmarks are, essentially, the ways that suit your personal needs and commitments, or the ways that you would remember where they are stores the easiest. Having to scroll up and down a major list of hundreds or even thousands of Bookmarked sites can be tedious, to say the least. If you do not want to use the folder system, you can organize your Bookmarks in order of most-to-last visited, or even in alphabetical order.
Of course, if you do not have hundreds or even thousands of Bookmarked websites, the best way to organize your Bookmarks us in alphabetical order. In this format, all you need to know is the first few letters of the websites that you are looking for.
Ultimately, the best way to organize your Bookmarks is the way that would make it the easiest for you to find your personal favorite web sites, and the web sites that you visit the most frequently. Since different people use different methods for organizing Bookmarks, whatever works best for you is the best way for you to save your Bookmarks.
Written by Marc Phillippe Babineau
