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 It would be nice to be able to assign shortcuts to bookmarks and bookmark folders.
+== Bookmark Maintenance ==
+Over the long term, the bookmarks list becomes less useful as it becomes weighed down with the cruft of bookmarks that have lost usefulness for various reasons including:
+* The page is gone (404)
+* The page has moved somewhere else (301/302)
+* The information has fallen out of date
+* The user has forgotten why the page was worth bookmarking
+* The user lost track of the original bookmark, making redundant bookmarks
+(no doubt this list can be expanded)
+Eventually it becomes easier to Google for the links anew rather than hunt through the unweildy bookmark list.  Faciliating management of these issues would be very helpful for maintaining a streamlined, functional list.  Some possibilities:
+=== Live Collections Using Advanced Metadata  ===
+Similar to the Live Folders concept mentioned above, but allow bookmarks to be automatically collected based on metadata ''other than'' just tags (such as server-provided data).
+For instance, periodically do HTTP HEAD requests to bookmarked addresses, and flag those that return statuses other than 200 OK.  Collected into live folders based on their status codes, the user would be able to easily cull dead links and decide whether to update the moved ones.
+Likewise, allow bookmarks to be grouped based on criteria such as last access date (to cull, or rediscover, links you never use anymore), the page's Last-Modified date (to identify resources that have grown irrelevant), and duplicate/similar addresses (including those that have obviously different URLs but would become redundant based on a 301/302 status update).
+If the client-side metadata (such as last access) could be shared across workstations (i.e. between work and home computers), that would also be cool.
+=== Visual Cues in Bookmarks Menu ===
+Favicons and screenshot previews are helpful visual cues about a bookmark.  Extend this concept to other metadata.  For instance, maybe the user would want 404s to be grayed out, and recently-visited links to be bolded.  Or certain tags might be asssociated with small graphics similar to favicons, so the user can quickly skim down a long list, identify the few bookmarks that meet his/her criteria (ex. "IE + hacks + 4stars")--even through he doesn't recall their titles.
+=== Bookmarks Menu Sorting===
+Allow user-defined sorting of the Bookmarks menu.  Chronological order quickly becomes non-meaningful in a long list.  Allow sorting by title, domain, or date, etc.
+=== Mac-Compatibile Shortcuts in Bookmark Manager ===
+Add support for command-deleting (the standard Mac shortcut for "delete selection") of bookmarks and folders in Bookmark Manager.
 == Sorting ==