Numerous ways exist in the digital world to store your favorite websites. This includes everything from sites you visit on a regular basis to specific articles, videos, blog posts, and image pages. Most people end up using a variety of different methods for saving and gravitate towards the ones that work best for them. This is one of the greatest things about the internet — there’s no assumption that one way works best for everyone.

Some people resist the idea of “bookmarks” at all. They prefer to keep a file on their computer where they paste every favorite site. Maybe they even create their own database for organizing and searching all their favorites. However, the majority of internet users will rely on the specialized bookmarking options throughout the web. These range for the option to bookmark favorites within their web browsing software to setting up accounts on bookmarking sites.

The result is that most people end up with different bookmarks saved in different place. Of course, the bookmarks you use at work are going to be very different than the ones you use at home. You may even have different categories of home bookmarks, which is why browser favorites give you the option of creating folders to organize them. This process is duplicated on social bookmarking sites, which provide folders, categories, and tags to further organize bookmarks and provide both cross-referencing and the ability to easily locate bookmarks by subject matter.