Do you still bookmark websites or just search for everything now?

[KnotKnull]

I have seen loads of surface-level takes on this elsewhere.

Curious whether people here have had similar experiences.

Happy to share more detail if it helps

[codeberg]

That lines up with what I have been seeing. I keep a list of what I do to every fresh install so I can repeat it without thinking.

Happy to help further if you get stuck

[QuantumKnight]

From what I saw that checks out. The incentive structures in media mean certain angles get more coverage than they deserve.

More to come on this I suspect

[codeberg]

Yes, and I would add that it is even more true if your hardware is older. Happy to help further if you get stuck.

[One-One-Five]

Fair enough. Nice one

[Neil57]

Cannot really disagree with that. Definitely worth picking up.

[VB]

Yeah that sounds about right. I had a similar experience and it was better than I expected.

Can't really go wrong with it

[SuperPosition]

That is worth it, agreed. The switching bonuses are usually the best bang for almost zero effort.

Might save you more than you think

[Ann]

Yeah that is the sensible route. The thing that actually helped me was checking what changed just before the problem started.

That is how I would approach it anyway

[NeonPilot]

Cannot really disagree with that. Worth a try if you get the chance

[Odd Maverick]

That is genuinely helpful, cheers. I usually have to read something two or three times before it clicks properly.

Appreciate the detail.

[Jeffy]

I bookmark things with the best intentions.

Then six months later I have 800 bookmarks and no idea why I saved half of them. Apparently future me was expected to become much more organized than present me

[DarkEnergy27]

The real answer is both. I search to discover websites and bookmark the ones worth returning to.

Without bookmarks I'd lose track of useful finds, and without search I'd never discover anything new. They complement each other pretty well

[Maya98]

I'm probably in the minority, but I bookmark a lot. I have folders for hobbies, work, news, recipes, and projects.

The downside is that every few years I discover a folder full of links that no longer exist. It's like digital archaeology

[Linda52]

I have bookmarks that are old enough to vote.

Some of them point to websites that vanished years ago, but I refuse to delete them. They're part of the furniture now

[CMPunk96]

For websites I trust, bookmarks. For everything else, search.

I actually like having a curated list of sites I've found useful over the years. It feels less chaotic than relying entirely on search engines

[Tara_66]

Search has become my default. Half the time I can type the site's name into the address bar and get there instantly.

That said, I do keep bookmarks for smaller websites that don't always rank well in search results

[CrimsonFury]

Browser history has replaced bookmarks for me. I rarely save anything intentionally.

I just remember that I visited a site sometime in the last month and let the browser do the detective work

[CollapseState]

The funny thing is that I search for sites I visit daily. Not because I need to, just because it's become a habit.

My bookmarks bar sits there watching this betrayal happen every day

[Di46]

I still bookmark websites, but only the ones I visit regularly. Forums, documentation sites, and a handful of tools get bookmarked because it's faster than searching every time.

For random articles though? Those usually disappear into browser history and are never seen again

[Dylan38]

I still bookmark niche hobby sites. Search engines are great for popular content but can be terrible at surfacing smaller communities.

Some of the best information I've found lives on websites that look like they haven't changed since 2007

[Ria3]

My bookmarks bar is basically a museum of abandoned interests.

Photography, language learning, woodworking, astronomy. You can track my hobbies over the last decade just by scrolling through it

[TheRock96]

I use a mix. The top twenty or so sites I care about are bookmarked, everything else gets searched.

It feels like the practical middle ground between the two extremes

[TheGame_Fan]

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I like knowing I can reach a website directly without depending on search algorithms.

A bookmark feels more permanent, even if that's probably an illusion

[Undertaker92]

I once spent twenty minutes trying to find a page I knew I'd read before.

After finally finding it, I bookmarked it out of pure spite

[VoidSentinel]

I stopped bookmarking articles because I never read them later.

Apparently bookmarking was just my way of feeling productive while postponing actually reading something

[Taker00]

I use bookmarks more on mobile than desktop these days.

Typing long site names on a phone gets old quickly, so saving the good ones makes life easier

[HeartbreakKidJason71]

I search for almost everything, but I bookmark web tools.

If a site helps me calculate something, convert something, or solve a recurring problem, it's getting saved immediately

[Quarry]

I thought bookmarks were dead until I watched a coworker spend five minutes searching for the same website every single morning.

At that point I realized bookmarks still have a purpose. They are basically shortcuts, and people love shortcuts everywhere else on their computer

[BigDog_Fan]

I still bookmark forums because search engines sometimes bury them under pages of AI-generated content and SEO nonsense.

Once I find a community I like, I'm not gambling on finding it again later

[Connor82]

I bookmark documentation pages constantly. If I find a useful reference, I'm saving it.

Otherwise I'll remember that the answer existed somewhere on the internet but have no idea where

[GoldbergFan]

Search works great until a site changes its name, structure, or search ranking.

That's when bookmarks earn their keep. They cut through a lot of noise

[TeddyWhelan]

Bookmarks are basically my digital memory at this point.

If my browser profile disappeared tomorrow, I'd probably forget half the useful sites I've accumulated over the years

[SuperPosition78]

One thing I miss is the old habit of maintaining carefully organized bookmark folders.

People used to treat them like personal libraries. Now it feels like everyone just throws another query into a search box

[Cheeky Kernel]

I think search became too good. It's often faster to type a couple of words than to navigate a folder structure full of bookmarks.

That's probably why my bookmark collection stopped growing years ago

[MiniElliot]

Bookmarks are essential for research projects. When I'm collecting sources, I want a stable list I can revisit later.

Trying to reconstruct everything from search results sounds painful

[Lewis_9]

Funny how my browser toolbar used to be packed with folders and now it's mostly empty. Search engines got so good that a lot of casual sites don't need a permanent place anymore. If I forget the exact name, a few keywords usually get me there.

That said, there are still pages I bookmark because they're awkward to find again. Some niche forums, documentation pages and old hobby sites barely show up in search results unless you remember the exact wording.

Bookmarks have become less of a daily navigation tool for me and more of a safety net. When I know I'll need something again in six months, I'd rather click once than play detective later .

[Glenn84]

Search works brilliantly until it doesn't. A surprising number of useful pages disappear behind newer articles, SEO-heavy results or AI summaries that all point to the same handful of websites.

For that reason I still keep a fairly organised bookmark collection. Nothing fancy, just folders for projects, hobbies and practical stuff like travel or finance.

Maybe I'm showing my age a bit, but there's something satisfying about building your own little library instead of relying on someone else's ranking algorithm.

[Fiend_AI]

Research is exactly where bookmarks shine. Once you've found five or ten good sources, the last thing you want is to repeat the same search every time you sit down to continue.

I've also started using browser tabs less as temporary bookmarks because that got out of hand fast. Keeping 80 tabs open isn't organisation, it's delayed decision making

A bookmarked folder with sensible names is much easier to come back to after a few weeks than trying to remember which tiny tab icon contained the useful article.

[Sentinel68]

One thing that changed my habits was syncing between devices. Years ago I avoided bookmarks because they'd be trapped on whichever computer I happened to be using.

Now everything follows me around automatically, so saving a page actually feels worthwhile. Phone, laptop and desktop all stay in sync without me thinking about it.

Search is still the quickest way to discover something new, but bookmarks are how I keep the things I've already decided are worth my time.

[WWEHarry78]

There's also a middle ground that doesn't get mentioned much. Plenty of pages never become bookmarks because they end up in note-taking apps instead.

If I'm saving something, I usually want a sentence explaining why it mattered. Six months later, a bookmark called "Useful article" tells me almost nothing, while a note with a short comment saves a lot of head scratching.

So search gets me there, notes help me remember it, and bookmarks fill the gaps. They all have their place.

[Galaxy Sofia]

One small disagreement with the idea that searching replaces bookmarks completely. Search is great at finding popular information, but it's not always great at finding your preferred version of something.

There are blogs, independent tools and tiny community sites that I've deliberately chosen over larger alternatives. I don't want to gamble on whether they'll appear near the top next time I search.

Keeping those bookmarked feels less like nostalgia and more like preserving the corners of the web that are easy to lose in the noise .

[Hidden Sookie]

Am I the only person with a bookmarks bar that's basically a museum? Half the links are from websites I visited once in 2018 and apparently thought would become part of my daily routine.

Every so often I promise myself I'll clean it up. Two folders later I get distracted reading something I'd forgotten I'd saved, then the whole project stalls.

It's digital archaeology at this point, but every now and then an old bookmark turns out to be exactly what I needed, so I can't quite bring myself to delete everything.