^^^^ hmm................ I've always thought that the bookmark toolbar on a man's (or woman's) browser speaks volumes about the individual! And I also have a hypothesis about the importance of the subject matter to the individual and the relative position of the bookmark to the left-hand-side of the browser (for English speaking folk)!
I've not met either Eric, or Uwe (or, vreihen), and I know absolutely nothing of their personalities but comparing the two screenshots in the first post (and also vreihen's picture) is potentially instructive - perhaps ("Flyspray" versus "Slickdeals" versus "arduino"?)
I'm amazed to see that Eric also created folders on the left side of his bookmarks bar! Although I suspect that my sub-folder scheme inside those bookmark folders is probably more complex than what he has in his folders, he is one of only a few people that I've ever seen create folders on the bookmarks bar. Great minds think alike!
Uwe on the other hand...
Do you *ever* take a day off? WAY too many work/business links on the left of that bookmark bar!
To help Don's hypothesis, I have to point out up front that my bookmarks follow me between home, work, and mobile. Hence the "NetMgmt" and "Home" folders for frequently-accessed links at both locations.
The "Bookmarks" folder is for old links that I don't use regularly. If you want to know how old, this CERN link is at the top of the list:
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
(Yes, at one point that one page was the *entire* World Wide Web!!!)
"To-Do" and "Later" are post-hospital creations, because my brain isn't what it used to be. Whenever I have something that I need to do in the next 24-48 hours, I'll drop a link in To-Do and clean it out when completed. Among the current items are a link for moving the VMware ESXi scratch directory location, a news article that I may post a link to later, and a link to a directory of all
OVH (French Internet company) IP subnet blocks that I need to add to Santa's naughty list (aka: the work firewall) first thing tomorrow because their spam done pissed me off.
"Later" is longer term stuff, things that I need to buy when I get a chance, news articles that were too long to read, etc. Among the current contents are a link to a
retractable engine block heater cord, a
Waze live traffic map link that I need to embed into the next revision of my personal web site, two GitHub folders that I need to grab updated drivers from, and of course the requisite article explaining how a
water hammer seismograph works.
After the folders, the next two are links for two prominent search engines, followed by whatever my project du jour is at any given time. As Don pointed out, I was working on an Arduino interrupt routine for a weather station sensor I'm experimenting with the other night, so I dragged the
Arduino programming reference onto the main bar to save a few mouse moves while trying to figure out all of the AttachInterrupt() function parameters.
Anyway, I hope that this helps Don with his hypothesis.....