I'm sure I could get rid of a lot more but I went from 1,193 to 516 bookmarks.
You can see the number of bookmarks you have in Chrome by visiting this link:
https://chrome.google.com/sync
First I made a copy of my current bookmarks by exporting to HTML. Then I set about deleting old and duplicate bookmarks. I wanted to reorganize things, so I have as few top level folders as possible.
Going horizontally across the top I have:
Main | Learning | Activities | Important | Other
Going vertically down into the Main bookmarks:
The idea was to pull out single blogs, subreddits, and people I follow on Twitter. This way I can "open all" on the Main bookmark folder and get the stuff I actually want to read without trying to look at the entirety of Reddit and Twitter.
I also made folders for Sometimes and Rarely. These are the bookmarks I want to visit but don't need or want to see them every day.
Main:
►Daily—————
Site 1
Site 2
Site 3
...
►Blogs—————Blog 1
Blog 2
Blog 3
...
►Reddits—————Subreddit 1
Subreddit 2
Subreddit 3
...
►Twitters—————@twitter 1
@twitter 2
@twitter 3
...
►Sometime (for links I use once in a while)►Rarely (for links I rarely open)
We'll see how the new set up goes. It's a lot tighter than my previous set up. Things were getting out of hand. Either way, it's nice to clean out the bookmarks once in a while.
I found these vertical and horizontal separators while I was working through the bookmarks:
https://separator.mayastudios.com/index.php?t=horz
Ended up just using empty folders for separators but I don't know why Chrome doesn't have that feature built in.
