Bookmarks Use Cases: Difference between revisions

== Temporary/Time Based Bookmarks ==

I think many of us frequently need to save websites we wish to return but don't want to keep them bookmarked forever.  For instance when I comment on blogs I often like to return to reply to the discussion later but if I kept every article I'd commented on in my bookmarks it would rapidly grow unwieldy.  An earlier contributor uses bookmarks for keeping a 'to visit' list and would like to be reminded about the contents of the list when non-empty. Similar use cases would be remembering items you are comparing to purchase, funny pages you want to show friends, long articles you are reading, remembering conferences or other events that will lose relevance shortly, and remembering stories to write a blog entry about.

In firefox 2 this sort of use is very cumbersome.  With 'add bookmark here' bookmarks can be added efficently enough but every time one wants to remove bookmarks you need to go to the manage bookmark's screen.  Some more efficent means of removing temporary bookmarks is needed, perhaps several.  The following features all seem good:

 

1) Expiration times for bookmarks, when created you can specify a date on which the bookmark will be deleted/become invisible.

 

2) Folder based expiration times, particular folders could time out bookmarks when they age past a certain date.

 

3) Most recently used display with bookmarks disappearing after they fall below some threshold.

 

 

 

Of course all of these really need appropriate sort option.