If you’re like most people, you have a collection of websites, videos, and even podcast sites that you like to visit regularly. These URLs are saved in multiple places, from your web browser at home to your computer at work as well as on your smart phone. You may even have a collection of sites you want to visit that you hand wrote when reading books, magazines, and newspaper articles. How do you get them all in one place and make sure that you can easily a specific bookmark when you need it?

The answer is social bookmarking sites. These sites are designed to store and organize online bookmarks in one place. They have other uses, but the focus here is on organization. Once you identify all the locations of your various bookmarks and choose a social bookmark site to use, you’re ready to begin the actual organization process. First, register as a user with the site and then use their handy tools to upload all the bookmarks from your browser. Then you’ll want to manually enter all the stray bookmarks you have in email, chat logs, or even that handwritten list mentioned before. You can log in to the site from work or other devices later and upload those URLs as well.

Next you’ll want to devise an organizational system that works for you. This will resemble the folder organization of your hard drive or existing bookmark files, with general categories and then subcategories and subjects. As you organize your bookmarks, you’ll want to make sure to tag them as well — attach a category or keyword phrase for all the important elements of the bookmarked page. This way you can search by tags later as well as using your folder system.