After years of failed attempts I gave up trying to organize everything and started to brutally eliminate most of it. It has been pretty liberating.
The short version is use piles to sort and purge the piles regularly. The "good stuff" will rise to the top and you discard the junk.
Bookmarks are just another pile...
I also have a reference folder for bookmarks, which I treat a bit like old tax returns - things that are rarely useful, but vital if I need them.
I used to work with a guy whose desktop was a complete mess and he would never try to organize the chaos. He had high screen res and it would take him a minute or two to find something on his desktop but he could do it. Then when it got full he would take the entire thing and paste it into a new top-level folder, called "old desktops". Of course this included his old old desktops folders, recursively. So the old desktops hierarchy became like archeological strata for everything he had ever done.
Very difficult. I'm by nature a very nostalgic person. Hard to part with items that brought me so much joy.
However, I came to the realization: Those items, while they gave me joy in the past, are literally preventing new experiences, and new sources of joy.
Need to make room for the future, and the only way is to throw stuff away.
Oh wow, thank you! I've had the same problem you mentioned, extremely nostalgic, with a side of "emotionally connected/attached to object", and this mindset and perspective is, I believe, exactly where I need to be, and remember, when weighing the keep/let go decisions.
A while ago I posted a question on all the top reviews of the book on Amazon: After 6 months/1 year, is their house still tidy, or was it not really sustainable? Very few responses, but I think one person said it was sustainable, and no one said it wasn't.
My mess is usually not with clothes, but with tables full of stuff, cabinets full of stuff, garage full of stuff, etc.
Did you go through a phase of getting rid of stuff, and then in the subsequent year, managed not to add more stuff to fill in the space you through away?
(And how bad was your house/apartment before KonMari?)
Honest question.
If they're still interesting later, they get read. If not - and this is maybe 80% - they get deleted. Storage is easy, so it's pretty satisfying to keep things and just not worry about deleting them later instead of organizing.