What Does Your Bookmarks Bar Reveal About You?

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The discussion revolves around the organization and usage of bookmarks in web browsers, particularly focusing on the bookmarks toolbar. Participants share their personal bookmark setups, highlighting the number of links and folders they maintain. There is a debate about the effectiveness of having too many bookmarks, as it can lead to scrolling and clutter, which defeats the purpose of quick access. Some users express their preference for using folders to categorize bookmarks, while others mention they rarely use bookmarks at all, relying instead on their memory or browser history. The conversation also touches on the distinction between bookmarks and recent history, clarifying that the original query was about bookmarks displayed on the toolbar. Additionally, there are humorous exchanges regarding the misidentification of the original poster and playful banter about various topics, including a Dante's Inferno test. Overall, the thread emphasizes personal organization strategies and the varying approaches to managing online resources.
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Its the bar that is usually located right under the address and afamed back/forward buttons.

I have:
quantum dots
article about geniuses
PF thread
link to http://www.ambrosiasw.com/webboard
PF Mail
Josephson junctions
Amorphous ice article
Paper on forest growth and decline in North America
another paper on forest growth and decline in North America
A Wikipedia article
http://www.lucidity.com (yay!)
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn - WordNet
My RSS feeds (Safari v. 2! yay!)
General Physics
General Discussion
Earth forum.

Post only ones that show, if any. After there's enough it starts to overflow and turn into an arrow.
 
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Physics news on Phys.org
:smile: An article about geniuses? Where might one find that article? My friend wants to know.

News
Google (rarely ever use this button though)
Google Scholar
PF Subscriptions
Care2 (Email)
Amazon
-The rest are folders:
Ling (linguistics)
PureSci (logic, math, computer science, philosophy)
PhysSci (physical sciences)
HASS (humanities, arts, and social sciences)
WS (Shakespeare)
Misc (miscellaneous)
-And one lone link I haven't bothered to move yet:
OneLook Dictionary
 
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I have very little in my bookmarks. Most of my most frequently visited websites I already know the urls of, so they don't need to be there.
 
https://www.physicsforums.com/index.php?
http://www.google.co.uk/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://arxiv.org/http://start.mozilla.org/firefox/
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/central.html
http://update.mozilla.org/?application=firefox
http://getfirefox.com/
http://www.mozilla.org/
http://www.mozillazine.org/
http://www.mozillastore.com/
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/
http://citebase.eprints.org/cgi-bin/search
http://scholar.google.com/

http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/jag8/spacetxt.html
http://www.freedict.com/onldict/lat.html
http://www.psychcentral.com/psypsych/Milky_Way
http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/wsherwood/preprnts.web.html
http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-5730.html
http://www.search.windowsonwarwickshire.org.uk/engine/theme/default.asp?theme=747&text=0
http://www.bmsgh.org/parish/warw/tyaiw/bishopsitchington.html
http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/warks/southam_workhouse.htm
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/WARWICK/2002-02/1014154698
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=a6fb9383bafcaa3edb29d9e8455b00cd&board=266.0
http://www.roman-britain.org/places/chesterton_on_fosse.htm
http://roboticsindia.com./
http://www.totalrobots.com/stedeman_files/stedeman.htm
http://www.kia-b.com/forums/login.php?redirect=viewforum.php&f=14&start=0&sid=cbaebc8ed9913caabb5b456f67f602c8
http://www.oopic.com/PGFull.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/prehistory/iron_02.shtml#24
http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/archaeology/index.html
http://plex.us/archives/word.html
http://www.barry.warmkessel.com/barry/4related.html#e
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Christianity
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba62/feat1.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacAlpin's_Treason
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kings_of_Dalriada
http://www.freedict.com/onldict/rus.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gogh/
http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/courses/4301f98/oct12.html#top
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html
 
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I had to miss a few out :biggrin:
 
Mk said:
Its the bar that is usually located right under the address and afamed back/forward buttons.
I have:
quantum dots
article about geniuses
PF thread
link to http://www.ambrosiasw.com/webboard
PF Mail
Josephson junctions
Amorphous ice article
Paper on forest growth and decline in North America
another paper on forest growth and decline in North America
A Wikipedia article
http://www.lucidity.com (yay!)
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn - WordNet
My RSS feeds (Safari v. 2! yay!)
General Physics
General Discussion
Earth forum.
Post only ones that show, if any. After there's enough it starts to overflow and turn into an arrow.

All that on your bookmark BAR?! Sort of defeats the purpose if you still have to scroll through it, doesn't it?

Mine has links to 3 email accounts, .Mac (I should take that off, I don't visit it often enough to need a bookmark for it, and until I get a second computer, it's not doing me much good since my main use was to sync home and office computers), PF, PubMed, and the library eJournals site.
 
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Moonbear said:
All that on your bookmark BAR?! Sort of defeats the purpose if you still have to scroll through it, doesn't it?
Firefox's bar spans the entire width of the window. Mine all fit with room to spare. :smile:
 
I have way too many to list them all here :smile:

I personally don't use the firefox bookmarks toolbar.edit... hmm I need to learn how to read :cry:
 
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Wow wolram, you have some interesting stuff.
 
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I have six folders on bookmarks bar: Irish Stuff, Forums, Connect (mostly mail and school, several networking sites), Scholarly Stuff, Media (including RSS feeds and torrent searches), and Comp (OS and software sites, mostly). All in all, there are well over a thousand bookmarked sites contained in the folders. I honestly use most of them very frequently, though. Fantasy Sports remains my major online activity.
 
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I have 10~ish folders, and 8 links not in any folder. I'm at uni right now so I can't check...
 
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ranger said:
Wow wolram, you have some interesting stuff.

:confused: I thought every one would have a laugh at my stuff :approve:
 
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What the OP was referring to is your recent history of sites visited, not bookmarks.
 
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Evo said:
What the OP was referring to is your recent history of sites visited, not bookmarks.

That would take about 10 screens, from a to v, start with ancient
history end with visual basic, i can gather tera bits of info in a day, but i keep
forgeting where i put it
 
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Why does every one say OP ? when it was MK :confused:
 
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wolram said:
Why does every one say OP ? when it was MK :confused:
Mk's real name is OP.
 
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mattmns said:
I think the op is referring to a feature in firefox, and a few other browsers (not sure if IE has it). It allows you to put bookmarks on a toolbar like so:
Ah, he should say so. Some people are listing history, some are listing firefox bookmarks.
 
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My toolbar bookmarks are :

PF, Google, My Dept. Homepage, 2 Email accounts, Mapquest, Wiki and Wolfram.
 
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I have no bookmarks. :biggrin:
 
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I don't use them either; the 'Favourites' list works fine for me.
 
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heh my favorites are empty too
 
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Evo said:
Mk's real name is OP.
He's Andy Griffith's son?:confused:
No wonder he changed his name.
 
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http://www.epilogue.net/index.html"
http://www.frateralastor.com/verum.htm"
http://www.jitterbug.com/origins/index.html"
http://www.the****ingfury.com/"
http://tanagra.ytmnd.com/"
http://www.mulletsgalore.com/"
http://winterson.com/2005/06/episode-iii-backstroke-of-west.html"
http://www.mckenziestudycenter.org/theology/articles/sophro.html"
http://phrontistery.info/index.html"
http://chud.com/"
http://www.aperfectcircle.com/video.html"
http://www.musipedia.org/"
http://www.npr.org/"
http://www.edge.org/discourse/discourse.html"
http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v2/psyche-2-10-cytowic.html"
 
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I'm very dissapointed that 'all kitties all the time' won't open.:frown:
 
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Danger said:
I'm very dissapointed that 'all kitties all the time' won't open.:frown:

Thats becuase the url is censored.

http://www.the****ingfury.com/
 
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And, rather than starting a new thread, I'll post this here:

What level of http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv" are you going to? :devil::bugeye:

Level 1 - Limbo

Charon ushers you across the river Acheron, and you find yourself upon the brink of grief's abysmal valley. You are in Limbo, a place of sorrow without torment. You encounter a seven-walled castle, and within those walls you find rolling fresh meadows illuminated by the light of reason, whereabout many shades dwell. These are the virtuous pagans, the great philosophers and authors, unbaptised children, and others unfit to enter the kingdom of heaven. You share company with Caesar, Homer, Virgil, Socrates, and Aristotle. There is no punishment here, and the atmosphere is peaceful, yet sad.
 
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mattmns said:
I think the op is referring to a feature in firefox, and a few other browsers (not sure if IE has it). It allows you to put bookmarks on a toolbar like so:
http://img422.imageshack.us/img422/4538/firefoxbookmarkstoolbar3rb.th.png
Listening to some Dr. Dre, eh?
Here you can see my browser, and my fantasy baseball dominance (I'm Army of the Dead):


screen.jpg
 
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0TheSwerve0 said:
And, rather than starting a new thread, I'll post this here:
What level of http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv" are you going to? :devil::bugeye:
Level 1 - Limbo
Charon ushers you across the river Acheron, and you find yourself upon the brink of grief's abysmal valley. You are in Limbo, a place of sorrow without torment. You encounter a seven-walled castle, and within those walls you find rolling fresh meadows illuminated by the light of reason, whereabout many shades dwell. These are the virtuous pagans, the great philosophers and authors, unbaptised children, and others unfit to enter the kingdom of heaven. You share company with Caesar, Homer, Virgil, Socrates, and Aristotle. There is no punishment here, and the atmosphere is peaceful, yet sad.[/QUOTE

I have been there and done that, "in more than one way", it hurts like hell,
so keep away :biggrin:
 
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0TheSwerve0 said:
how low can i go?
Level 1 - Limbo.
 
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loseyourname said:
Listening to some Dr. Dre, eh?
Here you can see my browser, and my fantasy baseball dominance (I'm Army of the Dead):
screen.jpg
Ooh, I never thought of putting folders on the bookmark bar! It never occurred to me that I could. :redface: I can add on the folder with my next most frequently used bookmarks. :biggrin:
 

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