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Originally Posted by edu
Thank you, it sounds complicated...
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It's not.
It avoids having to use FTP or anything else to upload new information to a website, by keeping the information in files stored in my Dropbox folder ... so all the upload/download/syncing between devices happens invisibly/ automatically. (And if you do use the FTP method, you still need to edit the files you are about to upload, first.)
It avoids installing somebody-else's bookmark-manager program, which might not run in exactly the same way on every platform, and means one does not have to cope with bugs in such a program maybe losing or corrupting your data.
It avoids installing extensions to browsers, which might not work the same way in every browser.
Yes, I have several lists of bookmarks rather than just one - but I decided I didn't want one huge long list that had to be scrolled to the right section. Using different lists means each one never has to be scrolled (at least, not on a decent-sized laptop screen - I expect it would be necessary on a smartphone).
Yes, I have a weird way of opening a file in an editor; but you could just as easily have a desktop shortcut that opens a bookmarks file in your editor.
You need to comfortable with pasteing a new URL and the description you want to use for it into a file, surrounded by a very small amount of HTML. Once you have a template for that file, adding another line is not difficult.