I use my internet bookmarks continuously.  Find a cool site, something to remember,  an inspirational post, a great new product?  I throw it, literally, in my bookmarks.  Occasionally I clean my bookmarks - what a job.  Yesterday was a cleaning day.  As I organized my links into the proper folders, I had an epiphany.  My bookmarks are a pretty darn good map of who I am right now. 

Take a look at some of my bookmarks folders; once you've skimmed them, do you know me a little better?

alternative healing
art inspiration
disability news
green living
goal setting
humor and other laughing matters
mindfulness and meditation
nature - amazing stuff
photo fun
playtime and procrastination
miniature shoe research
spiritual
stress busters
writing and poetry

Proof, we are what we bookmark!

Does anyone else want to post a bookmark bio? 

Bo 

 

art bookcrossing check it out -music -vintage photos genealogy jem mail art me nova people random reference -road conditions toys writing The dashes indicate subfolders of the one above. I'm not sure what my bookmarks say about me, to be honest. "check it out" is just a bunch of links I mean to check out at some point. :)

Mine are similar to yours.  Almost each main heading then has numerous sub categories under it.

1. Arts & Writing
2. Blogs
3. Education
4. Financial
5. For Women
6. Home Stuff
7. Links
8. Media
9. Photography
10. Recovery
11. Shopping
12. Spirituality

 I like your bookmarks!  Makes me realize my own are a combination of too big (music!) and too small (patrick - as in Saint Patrick).

Here they are:

Books and Such

Celtic 

Entertainment 

Folklore

Kids' Stories and Music

Medusa

Music

Nature and Environment 

Patrick

Spirit

Stories & Storytelling

Traditional Songs

Weather

Writing and Publishing

 

I'd like to reorganize these - on your sterling example, Bo! - and started to do so today, only to fold within 5 minutes.  They're massive, engorged, interesting, and wild - definitely a combo of now and the past. Sometimes I'm tempted to scrap 'em all and just start over from today.  But on the other hand, it's fun to pull out drawers on this messy desk of life and see all the quill pens and hedgehogs and love letters mixed up together.

KateSinging/Stan (the Man) 

 

 

 

Stan,

I could NEVER delete my bookmarks.  They're like family.  I do really try to keep on top of them because they are so easily lost, but it is really a hassle.  But only 5 minutes - Stan! - what shall I say.  On really long days, gloomy and everyone else with plans night and day, I sometimes go through my bookmarks, remembering why I saved, or wondering why I saved.

Your bookmarks really give a glimpse of you. I thought it might be interesting.

Bo

 I know - 5 minutes is a bit pathetic, but I'm being honest:  it really was only 5 minutes and then I was totally overwhelmed and bored at the same time.  Now, my actual bookshelves are another thing entirely. I have spent enchanted evenings alphabetizing the poetry bookcase or reorganizing Irish folklore just for the crack of it. 

 Maybe some of the closet guru wisdom applies to these bookmarks?  If you don't know why it's there, toss it?  Or is it more of an archive of past interests, and since it adds no physical clutter, one simply hangs onto it?

 What do you do to keep on top of them?  Any tips for the bookmark-badgered?

 
(It IS fascinating, though, to see what people have in there.  I see everything from stuff about oil spills to classical philology to astrologyzone to my favorite geeky weather guy).

And hey, while we're chatting like this, do you want to do that point-of-view poem we talked about?  (take the p.o.v. of someone or something you can hardly understand much less approve and write a poem that makes some sense of it?)

Stan

 

Stan the Man
It's a plan.
p.o.v.
I can, I can.

Do you want to start a new thread with the explanation,
see who else may want in on the challenge? 

Didn't you give an example.
That would be good to post, too.

Bo
 

Good idea. I'll put that in the poetry/writing place.

Also, we'll need another theme for next week's 10-minute poem! 

Hey this sounds like fun! I'll play...here's my bookmarks:

Antiques
Art
Bills and Finance
Business Women
Cincinnati
Computing
Desktop Publishing
Digital Photography
Faith
Health
Integrative Medicine
Magazines
Marketing and Branding Online
Photoshop
School
Shopping
Web Design
Writing

Of course now with the raving popularity of blogs and RSS feeds I've been spending a great deal of time in Bloglines checking out my favorite bloggers and news feeds. Ah, so many places to go and so little time...

How fun!

~Cheryl

Oh my!  I've never organized my bookmarks.  What does that say about me?    It probably explains why my dresser is such a mess, too!

Mine are a long higgledy-piggledy list, too! I've never even thought of organizing it! 

LOL,
Pat 

Everyone's bookmarks are SO interesting -- and revealing, too.

Here are mine:

Microsoft Websites
Cyber Hymnal
SQL Tutorial
TRICARE
WebKinz
Language Museum
Artella cafe
Artella Land
Artella Member Ship
Artella Web Office
Artella's New Storefront
Artella's Poetry Garden of Fame
aWeber Login
Community Server
Daily Muse
Daily Muse Admin
jigzone Sign In
Miller's Gratitude Blog
Nearer, My God, to Thee - a Digital Altered Book
NEW! Artella Creativity Contests - Artella Cafe
SBI Login
Web Conference Room
Web-Based Email Login
Zen Cart Login

HMMMM - It's clear I spend a lot of time doing Artella things.  <grin>

This has been interesting to me; I've always used the "Favorites" button instead of the Bookmarks, but I guess it works the same way.  There are up to a dozen sites for me under each category.  Anybody have any clues about the distinctions between Favorites and Bookmarks?

 Here are mine, anyway:

 Animals

Art

Bloggers

Books and Reading

Charities

Community and Clubs

Creative and Cooking

Decorating

Entertainment

Family

Fun Sites and e-Greetings

Gifts

Grief

Inspiration and Encouragement

Local Stuff

Massage and Bodywork

Music

Photography

References

Shopping

Travel

Wish List

Writing

 

Sooz W

Hi all!

I have mine half-organized, but my problem is, I start with a generic file name and get more specific - so specific, at times, that it's best that I don't file them at all! Here's a partial list (AuntBo, we have a couple that overlap!):

Disability & Tricare

Health

Mental Health

Games

Art Instructions

Charities/Foundations

Spiritual

Photography

Art Shopping

Art, General

eCards

Investing

Southwestern

General Shopping

~~~~

and some specifics:

The Quotations Page

Harrison Daily Times

Albuquerque Journal

Artella Land

Artella Daily Muse

 

I just recently deleted a bunch for either not visiting them or just allowing my fingers to do the walking instead! ;-)

Gentle hugs,

Jani'ce

 

 

 

 

I don't know what my list says about me but I have only a few Favorites but lots of subfolders.  Maybe I'm somewhat organized when it comes to the Favorites but all hell breaks loose with the subfolders?  When I see something interesting while on the internet, I just cannot pretend it never happened - it simply must be saved!  Kind of like when I'm out and about and see some obscure object that could possibly, some day, maybe, positively, perhaps be used in an artwork.  It simply must be purchased.  Anybody know what I mean?!

chameleon's favs

• Art and Crafts (34 sub-folders starting with Altered Art; ending with Zines) 
• Blues (13 sub-folders with sub-folders like Blues International, Legendary Blues Cruise, etc.)
• Dell (4 sub-folders)
• Gardening (6 sub-folders)
• Links (19 sub-folders with things like Bank, Dictionary, Google, etc.)
• Media (17 sub-folders with radio stations, TV, newspapers, video)
• Miscellaneous  (everybody needs a junk drawer) 
• Vintage (10 sub-folders with things like paper dolls, collectibles, magazines, postcards, etc.)
• Work (7 sub-folders)