I am in the process of organizing my bookmarks, RSS feeds and other stuff in my desktop and hard drive. Being an avid Internet "surfer", meaning I read almost like 30+ blogs and news everyday, I have collected A LOT of bookmarks. So this post is just to share a quick (non-technical, as much as possible) overview of how to organize bookmarked/favorite websites, keep up with what’s new in them and get the best out of your Internet surfing.
1.) BOOKMARKING: Bookmarks or Favorites are links to websites or web pages that you like. You can bookmark a web site or web page by clicking the Bookmark menu in the toolbar, then Add Bookmark (for Mac users, but this is similar to PC users as well).
2.) REAL SIMPLE SYNDICATION OR RSS: RSS Feeds are snippets of current updates or news from websites that you subscribe to. They are usually organized by using a program called RSS Feeder.
What use are these for you?
Let’s say you like cooking. You went to Google to search for new recipes. There you found a website that has the recipe you had in mind, plus other more that you think might be useful in the future. What you can do then is to bookmark this website so that the next time you need a recipe, all you have to do is just click it from your Bookmark list (without having to memorize the site name, or go through Google search again). Now, if you really like this specific cooking website, you can subscribe to their RSS Feeds. Subscribing will put this website into your RSS Feeder and enable you to know if they have posted new recipes. Pretty neat, isn’t?
Here’s my very own bookmark list as an example.
Organization is the key to maximize your Internet surfing time. It’s ideal to have your favorite websites arranged into folders and named according to their category for easier searching in the future.
And here’s my RSS Feeder – the program I go to that lets me know if there are new posts from my favorite websites.
