Why I Stopped Using 15 Bookmarked Tool Sites (And What I Do Instead)

At some point I looked at my "Dev Tools" bookmark folder and counted 23 entries. JSON formatter. Base64 encoder. Base64 decoder (a different site, for reasons I no longer remember). UUID generator. Cron expression explainer. Color picker. Regex tester. Unix timestamp converter. Diff checker. JWT debugger. And on it went. I had a bookmark for every problem I'd ever encountered and solved by finding a single-purpose website. The folder had become a graveyard of one-off solutions, most of which I'd used once and would probably never open again -- except I couldn't bring myself to delete them because what if I needed them? This is bookmark bloat, and it's a quietly significant source of developer friction. The Real Cost Isn't the Bookmarks The problem isn't the folder getting long. The problem is what happens when you actually need a tool. You're in the middle of something. You need to quickly decode a JWT or convert a timestamp. So you open a new tab, try to remember which bookmark it was