The document outlines a system for organizing bookmarks using folders in the Chrome browser. It describes creating 11 top-level folders covering frequent sites, hot sites for bookmarks not yet categorized, personal topics like health, indoors, outdoors, and entertainment. The system is meant to provide quick access to important sites through frequent use of only a few clicks and a temporary folder for bookmarks not yet sorted into the proper location. Regular cleaning of uncategorized bookmarks in the "hot" folder is recommended. The key aspects that work well are bookmarking the bookmark manager itself and using folders sparingly for sites accessed most often.

1. The problem
You’ve bookmarked many, many websites on your browser and
you’ve forgotten some good ones, right?
You want to bookmark a site quickly but don’t want to go through a
series of clicks right this minute. Has that happened to you?
There are sites you want to go to real quick but you can’t remember
where you put the bleeding bookmark. That ever happen?
Frankly, your bookmarks are all over the shop, right?
Here’s how I sorted the buggers out…

2. My setup
Adapt it to your cosmology as you see fit!
This is the Chrome Bookmark
Manager which can be accessed
by Ctrl + Shift + O.
Make 11 folders as shown. (These
fit across a laptop screen for easy
access.)
On the furthest left is
00 Frequent with 01 HOT next to
it. I will go into some detail about
these next.
Now, open the Bookmark Manager
and bookmark it using Ctrl +D.

3. Magic #1
00 Frequent
There are some websites I want to access
VERY frequently so in 2 clicks I can go
to e.g. Password Manager, Weather
Forecast, YouTube etc.
I have put my email accounts into one
folder and my bank websites into
another i.e. 01 Money.
I have bookmarked the Bookmark
Manager. I find this great while I am
setting the whole shebang up.
Each folder has a Bin so that I never
delete a bookmark but I get it out of
the way. The z prefix is to keep the Bin
at the bottom of the folder list.
Next Magic #2.

4. Magic # 2
01 HOT
Here’s the scenario. You’re browsing the web
and you are looking at a number of
websites. You think << I’d like to bookmark
this website but I don’t remember exactly
where I should put it. Just dump it in here.
Okay, you will have to do some housekeeping
later to either discard it or put it in it’s proper
folder but at least you have it. Nice eh?
I’m studying computer stuff at the moment so I
have a separate folder (02 Hot Computer
stuff) for that subject inside 01 HOT.
Next I will show you the 02 My Stuff folder.
Everybody should have one of these!

5. 02 My Stuff
Everyone should have one of these!
There are 12 folders in here.
Top billing goes to Health matters. Health is
better than wealth, right?. Organise these in
any way that suits your particular
penchants.
e.g. under 03 07 Things I have sub-folders
called 01 House, 02 Car, 03 Small Things.
Did you notice the addressing system?
O2-07-02 is a unique address for stuff relating to
my Car.
This turns out to be very handy for referencing
purposes.
If it’s all too anal for you, just leave it out.
No shit, right?
I will skip 03 Computer Stuff because that is not
really generic.
Next 04 Online.

6. 04 Online
I’m not on Facebook, really. But I do
browse the web sometimes. (I lie - I do
it A LOT).
Some sites I return to again and again.
Blogs, social media, forums etc.
Some of you will want to have, say,
Facebook or Twitter pulled out and
showing below zBin. No problem.
Just do dat!
Organise it so that it works for you. This is
working for me. Take what you want
and leave the rest. I don’t mind.
The next slide will show 05 Indoors and 06
Outdoors without commentary.

7. 05 Indoors and 06 Outdoors

8. 08 Entertainment
Whooooaaaah!
What the hell happened 07 *****????
Well, the beauty of my setup is that I can
afford to have a spare slot for
something that I may want in the future
but I haven’t thought of yet.
It is built-in spare capacity. Nice eh?
I’m not sure why I haven’t got Music in
here. So I will do that. I never claimed
to have a perfect finished system. I
only claimed that it works for me. And
it does. (No, really, it does.)
Next Final Thoughts…

9. Final Thoughts
I have presented an outline of the method I use of organising a myriad bookmarks in a
coherent, flexible and usable way. At least that is what I intended to do!
As laid out, it works for me. I developed it over a number of years and many frustrations.
The key things for me are:-
• Bookmarking the Bookmark Manager
• Using the Frequent folder sparingly
• Doing housekeeping on the HOT folder
I hope this helped someone. If there is something I have done that doesn’t make sense
or is plaing wrong let me know in the comments. I’ll bookmark it.
Happy organising!!
(No bookmarks were harmed in the making of this slideshow)

10. Final Thoughts
I have presented an outline of the method I use of organising a myriad bookmarks in a
coherent, flexible and usable way. At least that is what I intended to do!
As laid out, it works for me. I developed it over a number of years and many frustrations.
The key things for me are:-
• Bookmarking the Bookmark Manager
• Using the Frequent folder sparingly
• Doing housekeeping on the HOT folder
I hope this helped someone. If there is something I have done that doesn’t make sense
or is plaing wrong let me know in the comments. I’ll bookmark it.
Happy organising!!
(No bookmarks were harmed in the making of this slideshow)