I started organizing my interwebz bookmarks in a html file.
Why?! What on earth Dave Smith, what are you doing?! Why not just use the browser bookmarks and sync them in the almighty cloud?! Are you insane?!
Well, you know, a couple of reasons:
1. It's completely browser and platform agnostic.
If you have a program that can read html files, you can access your bookmarks.
Even if you don't (at that point, why do you even care about web links though?), you can read it as plaintext.
Basically, if you have a working computer of any kind, you can access your bookmarks.
Digital independence is good by default.
2. You give less of your personal data to be vulnerable to shady datamining.
Unless people get physical access to your storage devices or somehow hack you, your bookmark data truly is for your own eyes only.
3. You have to add new websites manually.
By forcing you to work on HTML code to add a new link, you not only need to think twice if the site is truly worth the time to add, but you also keep your mind sharp instead of just clicking a bookmark button.
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I keep it on my USB thumb drive, along with other portable apps and things that are on there, to ensure I can access it with me wherever I go.
Avoid the middle man. Be digitally independent.
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