Do people still use browser bookmarks? With social media, it may seem like there is no need for bookmarks. But there are several key uses.
Bulk load for surfing
Every morning, I load up about 10 websites that don’t have RSS feeds. They are all inside one bookmark folder, so I can right-click on the folder and do a “Open All Bookmarks”
In addition to the one daily folder, I have several other daily folders, each with about ten bookmarks. (Each are labeled d1, d2, d3, d4). Depending on how much I want to explore, sometimes I’ll load all three folders, sometimes it’s just one.
Utility
The most common use today for bookmarks are for the
Although I don’t know if you can really count the bookmarklet as a bookmark. The bookmarklet is more of a script that takes action on the current page; it doesn’t archive the current page. Although, in some ways the bookmarklet can archive/point-to the page–as in the case of Instapaper, Delicious, Google Plus, and Flipboard.