13 February 2006

Searchable page of links

Here's my personal contribution to the ever-growing library of life hacks on the web.

I found that a webpage is a good way to organize your favorite websites. Make a private webpage for yourself that contains links to websites you visit frequently. Divide it into categories like: email, school, science, hobbies, etc. Make all the links text separated by a delimiter (e.g. "|" or "/"). For example,

Sports

National Hockey League / Major League Baseball / National Football League

Now you can search for the links on the page and jump to any of your favorite pages lightning fast. This is a much better way of organizing your commonly visited websites than using the built-in bookmarks feature on browsers.

Also, if you save your webpage on a server (say your university account), you don't have to worry about accidentally deleting your bookmarks or having to import bookmarks when you switch browsers from say Internet Explorer to Netscape.

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