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Brian Groudan over at Mozilla conducted a [study][moz] into how and why users
bookmark URLs. I think it can be further simplified even further into
3 categories: Now, Later, and Future.
three categories: Now, Later, and Future.

## Now

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## Later

Stuff here can be broken down into two subcategories for me: stuff to read and
stuff to work on.

Stuff to read later is solved by [Pocket][pocket] (formerly Read It Later). It's
essentially a reading to do list. It's even better when you use the phone /
tablet app since there is push synchronization support allowing for offline
reading. I find it useful for commutes, traveling, or reading in bed.

Stuff to work on is solved by [Stash][st]. I've adopted a one window per topic /
task workflow. Using Stash allows me to conveniently save / load windows full of
tabs to temporarily suspend work and continue later.

## Future

Future can also be broken down into two subcategories: content to save and
links to save "just in case".

[Evernote][en] handles the content I want to save pretty well with tagging
support to recall it efficiently.

Bookmarks only handle the last case where I don't mind losing the content.
Honestly, most of the time I can depend on address bar completion or a quick
Google search to find content I need.

On a side note, despite this popular request for [tagging support][bug] in Chrome's
bookmarks from 3 years ago it still hasn't been implemented, so I'm stuck using
a complicated folder hierarchy instead.

The final picture form:

[moz]: https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2012/10/save-for-later/
[qm]:
[qm]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quickmarks/piefpokhpcehbeelhohgcnbipnfkogig
[pocket]: https://getpocket.com/
[st]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stash/bnhjedgfogckebfhnlicnkbdjlmpibck
[en]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/evernote-web-clipper/pioclpoplcdbaefihamjohnefbikjilc
[bug]: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=17536

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