organising 'favorites'?

[**guest**]

how do you organise your 'favorites' on the computer?
what are your folders?

i started with several broad ones months ago: homeschooling; activities; articles. now i need to get more specific, as i am way too cluttered and it is getting difficult to find stuff -- i do it by intuition mostly :LOL

can you share your organisation, pretty please?

[shaywyn]

Mine are a mess right now, been months since I've organized and I must have 1000 links, at least! LOL! Someone on my hs group recommended this:

4) Speaking of links, I use Powermarks from www.kaylon.com as my link
manager; it doesn't use folders but instead treats the links as entries in
an index (so I can type "magazine" and all the magazine entries pop).
Highly recommended way to keep track of stuff!

I just downloaded it, it looks cool, it's like a search engine for bookmarks. It's free to try for 30 days, no restrictions on use, but it's 24.95 after that. I will probably try to find something similar for free after this trial if I find this is a good way to do go

Good Luck!!

[Citymomx3]

I have lots of folders. I think I'm pretty organized, but then it all looks like so much. It works really well for me and I never seem to have to add any others. Anyway,here are my folders:

Blogs

Frugal

Health

Homeschool (laws, articles, good basic websites)

Folders for each academic subject (math, geography, crafts, etc). So easy for both J and I to find what we're looking for this way.

H/S General Topics (websites with lots of different academic subjects)

H/S Correspondence (examples and ideas for creating home instruction plans and reports to send to the district)

H/S Groups (all the local h/s groups)

H/S To Buy (stuff I want to buy)

H/S Tests (sites where I can purchase standardized tests)

NYC Activities (sites of museums, theaters, parks, etc)

Online Coupons

Investing

Information (sites that back up my views on things )

[AnnR33]

I go by subject mostly:
I have the main homeschool folder with the following folders inside:
math
history
reading and lang arts
printables/general worksheets
vendors
wtm (well trained mind stuff)
nature
science
unit studies

[dharmamama]

I have lots of folders and subfolders. Some I created before I put anything in them, like Homeschooling. Others I created after I noticed I had a lot of links hanging around without organization, like Toddler Activities.

So, here's what I have: (subfolders are denoted with a - and sub-subfolders with a *)
Adoption
-Lifebook Resources
-Adoption Funding
-AFAA (son's adoption agency)
-AAI (daughter's adoption agency)
Bicycling
Blogs I Visit
Buddhist
-Family and kids
Camping
-Suppliers
-Sites
-Helpful Info
Community Activities
Eco Links
Ethiopia
Family Activities
Frugality/Homemaking
Gardening
-Organic
-Canning
-Tips and Tricks
-Future Ideas
Hair/Skin (African-American resources)
HIV
-Children
-E-Magazines
-News
-Treatment
-Clinics
Homeschool
-Book Sources
*Usborne
*Homeschool Supply
-Buddhist
-Curricula
*Used Curricula
*Free Curricula
-General Links
-Literature Guides
-Philosophies
-Preschool
-Reading/Grammar
-Regulations/Standards
-Specific Subjects
*Science
*History
*Math
*Geography
*Phonics/Reading
*African Studies
*Peace Education
*Multicultural education
*Religious Studies
-Unit Studies
*Unit Links
-Worksheets
Libraries and Books
-Booklists
-Books
Magazines
-Children
-Adults
Miscellaneous
Multicultural
Name Stuff (Social Security name lists, name polls, etc., a weird interest of mine)
Natural/Healthy Home
-Holistic
NPR Links
PBS Links
Places to Visit
-Historical
-Cultural
-Vacation
-Regional
Radio Station Homepages
Recipes
Toddler Activities
Toy Sites
Travel
-Travel Agencies
-Discount/Bucket
-Adoption Travel
-Hostels/Hotels
-Rail Lines


I also have 57 links that are currently unsorted into any folder! I should probably dump them in to Miscellaneous, but even better I should probably delete a lot of them!

I have over 700 links all together, so I know about having trouble finding things. I try to make a mental note when I bookmark something so that I have a better chance of remembering where I put it!

HTH!

Namaste!