Serious question, is it actually better to download and store everything or just bookmark it?

I had this moment last week where I was cleaning out my browser bookmarks and realized I had over 400 saved links to recipes, tutorials, and articles I've never touched. Meanwhile, my hard drive has 200GB of PDFs I downloaded from those same sites 'just in case the page goes down.' A buddy of mine told me I'm wasting space because bookmarks don't take up room on my computer, but another friend says offline copies are the only way to be safe since sites vanish all the time. Which side makes more sense for someone like me who can't stop saving everything? Has anyone else had that moment where you realized your method was totally backwards?

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parker_foster533d ago

Ha, your buddy with the bookmarks is way off base. I've lost count of how many times a "saved" link just led to a dead page or a completely different site now. Honestly, you're probably fine picking one method and sticking to it, but in my experience that half-and-half approach just makes the clutter twice as annoying.

jade473d ago

Yeah I actually tried that half and half thing once too and it was a total disaster. What worked for me eventually was just going all in on a note taking app where I can copy the important bits of a page instead of saving the link itself. That way even if the site goes down I still have the info I wanted, which is honestly the whole point. Plus it cuts down on the clutter because you can tag stuff and actually find it later without scrolling through a million bookmarks (or worse, a mix of bookmarks and saved posts). It took a weekend to move everything over but I haven't had a dead link problem since.