Bookmarks Are Your Best Friend on the Internet


Do you manage bookmarks when you use your internet browser? Oh dear, what is a bookmark? Let me start from the top. Look at the top of your browser, see the little icons (pictures) with names next to them? That is a convenient little button that will immediately zap you over to the site that the words say. It is like when you open a book to the space that you saved with a little slip of paper. Think of it as putting a little slip of paper in the internet to save your place, so you can open up to it. And you can have as many little slips of paper, I mean bookmarks, as you want.

My Google bookmarks are located right up there on my Google bookmarks toolbar. It is easy to see and organize bookmarks from there. Of course, I am talking about using Chrome as my browser, so you should be using it for yours as well. So, to manage bookmarks you have a handful of options. First of all, you can just leave them there, in whatever chronological order that made them. But that would be absurd, that is not a way to manage bookmarks at all.

You have the alphabetical option, which makes things really simple to find, as long as you know the precise name of what you are looking for. Normally I am an alphabetical guy. Just look at my video games, dvds, books, cereal, et cetera. But, to manage bookmarks, I am actually more partial to ordering them in ranks of usage or importance, which go hand in hand for me. I have all of my web comics first, then all of my online bills, followed by NPR, then Netflix. Those are the most important. There a few other stragglers, but I will probably delete them soon. They are just reminders to go do something with the site.

And that is another added benefit. If you see a site that you want to return to at some point, all you need to do is grab the little icon in the left of your search bar, then drop it anywhere on your bookmarks bar. And if you do not like where it landed, you can pick it up and shift it anywhere. That can be done with any of your bookmarks, making for incredibly easy organization.