Just to represent the other end of the spectrum: me (43 years old, been hacking since I learned C64 assembly at age 10), who has 38 bookmarks and I don't think I've ever had more than 10 tabs open in my entire life.

You must have remarkable discipline and focus! Or you must have discovered the 38 exceedingly better sites on the whole Internet, and now no other URLs will do.

No, I just acknowledge that if I'm not going to look at something right now, it's unlikely that I'm going to ever.

I always wonder why people have all these bookmarks. I think the most I had at one time was 15 and that because I switch to another project halfway. As soon I extract what I want in one page, I close it. If it's something that is interesting, and I don't have time, I add it to my read-it-later list. And if it's something that I may often revisit, that's when I bookmark.

There's a lot of interesting stuff on HN every day. Bookmarking this thread with some tags in Pinboard brings me to ~46k.

I like Pinboard for the ability to organize bookmarks in tabs, with tags, groups of tags, quickly stash a tab set, etc.

For me the history in my address bar is the most important thing. Switching to a new laptop recently and not bringing those across, I became painfully aware how much I use this. Often the reference page I care about, or a deep link into some tool is a few keystrokes (the first few letters of the service and deeper link).

Bookmarks makes this info portable. It's like having close to O(1) access to the knowledge or tasks that are not immediately in your direct clickable range. Having extra non-title info makes this even better.

80k+ bookmarks... How many of them do you actually need and how many of them are FOMO?

I have no idea how bookmarks I have but my plan is to eventually use them to remind me of things I want to make sure I want to cover in a book with quite a breadth, regarding health and health systems, that I hope to write some day.

I assume that with something that extensive it's like a research/knowledgebase type thing.

Almost.

Those bookmarks are more or less the tip of the iceberg. And they were almost all created during $DAYJOB which was years ago. Although already then (~2017) i had about 3500 sources in my RSS Server. And of course, I lost track of everything remotely interesting.

Archiving those links was fundamental work for creating my news blog, which is still run privately until I figure out how to implement a community communication system (mostly commenting) that will work on an IPFS backend. I mean, the comment section of HN is what has made me come to this site for years.

It's unfortunate that you've lost track of the most interesting pages you've come across. Built-in browser bookmarking systems and managers leave much to be desired on the categorization and prioritization side, in my opinion.

(On a mostly unrelated note, around ten years ago, someone posted a motivational/productivity article on Hacker News that used video-game-themed metaphors and artwork, reminiscent of Heroes of Might and Magic. It involved going down one path or the other, and for one of the paths, the author asked whether you really wanted to be "hanging out with the hydras". I've never been able to find it since. Does anyone remember it or know how I could find it?)

Sorry my statement was not clear.

I meant I was loosing interesting articles on my RSS server without filtering. I won't be loosing resources that I have already archived.

On the other side, having so many sources allows me to find articles about one topic and group them. Making future research for reporters easier. At least I hope so.

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I also highly recommend ArchiveWeb.page + ReplayWeb.page if you need really high fidelity archiving.

How is this as a privacy oriented solution? Using in-browser bookmarks is, in my opinion, like creating a perfect fingerprint of who you are in so many ways (aside from the obvious of being traceable based on the same bookmarks being transferred to new browsers). Any suggestions?

Cool! This sounds like a great setup, better than mine (posted in a separate reply in this thread).

I've bookmarked your post for later ;), will have to go back and review in detail when time permits.

How do you deal with paywalled sites for your bookmark archive to preserve the current Internet?

I just don`t do it. One could use a service in between, which opens up pay-walled content. But for me it`s not worth the hassle. Even if I`m loosing high quality content ... which is only available on one site.

I blacklist "bad" sites that don`t care about freedom or sites that just make life harder for the reader. Like unnecessary advertisement, binding the core functionality to cookies and/or javascript, being not international, copying from other sites ... those criteria can sum up to a overall bad user experience. Those criteria are only "bad" for me in the context of news and blog sites.