Health: what your bookmarks are doing when you are not looking
A bookmark collection rots quietly. Nothing on the dashboard changes on the day a link dies, a domain moves, a certificate expires or a page you saved four years ago turns into a parked ad. The health view is where all of that is written down — and, more to the point, where it can be worked through. Save a link and it is a promise about the future: this will still be here when I want it. Every promise like that is broken eventually, and none of them announce it. The row on your dashboard looks the same on the day the site goes away as it did on the day you saved it. That leaves you with two habits, both bad. Either you click something to find out — which is how you discover a dead link at the exact moment you needed it — or you stop […]