Rethinking your bookmarks

How often do have save bookmarks in your web browser? How many are categorized into appropriate folders? Finally how often do you revisit the majority of the links you saved?

I admit I only revisit no more than 10 percent (and that is a high number) of the web sites I have bookmarked. Why? 1.) After filing them away I forget they are there, 2.) Other things in life and online knock a lot of those things off the radar 3.) Other than knowing I may need that information “one day” I don’t have compelling incentives to make regular return visits

My future plans are 1.) see if any of the sites I visited a long time ago have RSS feeds and either subscribe to them in my news reader 2.) Cull information from static sites and save them in an informational database. I’m seriously looking at programs like Yojimbo to manage my information and set priorities on it. 3.) Seriously ask myself if I really need the links and delete a lot of them and only keep the one I know I will be revisiting on a regular basis in my bookmarks bar.

Hopefully Microsoft, Apple, Opera and the Mozilla corporation are rethinking the bookmarks concept. I know some progress is being made and Del.icio.us is an interesting alternative I have been playing with more and more.