Clearing out the old bookmarks

Just cleaned out my Chrome bookmarks.
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.