“Mmm. Lost a planet, Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing. How embarrassing.” – Yoda, Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones
I went looking for a website today in the bowels of my bookmarks file. Oh, the tragedy.
There are approximately 9 trillion bookmarks in there because, frankly, there is just too much great stuff out there on the interwebs for a homeschooling mom to pass up. Is there a diagnosis for Bookmark Fever? And if so, is there a cure? To grab a few without looking I get…
- Virtual tour of the Kokomo Glass Factory.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- BBC Education – great, great, great
- PBS’s Freedom: A History of US, a tie-in to Joy Hakim’s series The History of US
- Learn Scratch
- The Secret Life of Machines
- The Food Timeline
You know how it is, I could go on and on. But, yes. I did eventually find that file for which I was looking. It was right there between The Great Magnet, the Earth and The Great Plant Escape. It became obvious as I was hunting around that PL has outgrown some of these bookmarks or they are simply no longer needed, so it looks like a little bookmark weeding is in order.
I am trying to put mine in some order. Right now they are all over the place. You are right, there are so many great sites, hard not to bookmark them. Knowing someday I will need it.
Mine are completely organized… Genealogy, homeschooling, Paganism, blogging, and PCS. And in the folders are subfolders (how can one research genealogy if the Loyalist links are mixed with the Mayflower links?).
But the amount can grow to overwhelming proportions. This is a great time of year to clean ‘em out and let ‘em go, if you can!
Wendy: Mine are organized into categories and subcategories as well, there is just too, too many of them. Because so many could go into multiple categories, I have to pick and choose where to initially “settle” them – and, after a while, my initial location placement no longer fits. Funny, I think it was genealogy research that got me serious about categorizing them in the first place!
So – to use a gardening theme – it’s time to prune, weed, and compost some of the unnecessary ones and transplant some others.
I see now why you concurred with me on twitter. I suppose it could be worse, without the internet I’d have boxes of magazine clippings all over the house. Oh and I also love the BBC Education site!
Mine are organized within an inch of their life, but I STILL hate weeding them. Maybe if I just let them sit there they will die out on their own for lack of watering??
OMG, I totally hear you. I have a GAZILLION bookmarks, and what’s crazy is I keep trying to keep them synchronized between the desktop computer and the laptop computer and Oh, Lordy, it’s time consuming.
I do occasionally weed out some of the ones that are WAY beneath Baby Boy, but then I remember my precious grand babies (Ahem . . . I mean Mom #2′s grand babies . . . they are just cute little babies who are not grandchildren because I’m too young for that silliness) and I think about all the stuff I’m going to want to teach them, and *SIGH* they all remain.
If excessive bookmarking is wrong, I don’t wanna be right!