Organizing Bookmarks

Posted by Dr Andus
Jul 19, 2020 at 11:41 AM

It sounds like you have an interesting and creative use of Chrome bookmarks, but it also sounds like you have reached the limits of that system and approach.

One decision is whether you want to extend or tack something onto the existing system/approach or switch to an entirely different solution (requiring some changes to the workflow).

If you’ve really reached the limits of the usefulness of the current system, you may need to switch to a different solution to be able to continue to grow the database and also to be able to analyse it.

From what you describe it seems that a web-based solution would be the most suitable for cross-platform availability.

Then there seem to be two further options: dedicated bookmark managers (the likes of Clibu Notes) or more generic online notes systems that have some kind of a clipper tool to quickly bookmark/capture URLs and additional tools to organise and annotate the content (and also to allow you to import your existing data).

In the latter category I could think of Dynalist or WorkFlowy. They both have Chrome extensions that clip content and URL (if you need to add images as well, then Dynalist is better), and then within the software you can organise things hierarchically. There are tags to annotate items further (again, Dynalist is way ahead in that regard).

Both Dynalist and WorkFlowy have losts of interesting dedicated Chrome extensions and CSS styles on https://userstyles.org/ , which you can enable via using the Stylus Chrome extension. These mainly enhance the visual usability of both software.

Another interesting tool for this would be RoamResearch, but I can’t recommend it until they add an automatic daily backup service like Dynalist and WorkFlowy have, otherwise your data would be at risk.