Take stock of your bookmarks. Seriously, take 15 seconds to check them out. Chances are you have cruft, detritus, clutter; digital debris. Pages you swore you’d need, tabs that once held meaning, links that have quietly expired. You’re not the exception. On average: 20-40% of bookmarks are out of date.
20-40% of bookmarks are out of date
Just as likely, you don’t rely solely on bookmarks to navigate around.
Evolution of the Modern Bookmark
Professionals rely on bookmarks every day. In the early days, bookmarks were simple. A browser bar. A star icon. A saved page. But digital workspaces aren’t so simple anymore, and neither are your bookmarks.
Now these are found in:
- Slack messages buried in busy threads
- Internal search tools
- Links in wiki pages
- Old emails
- Your browser’s history
- Mental notes (“I’ll remember it’s in that Google Sheet, right?”)
- Tabs you refuse to close (you know who you are)
These modern “bookmarks” aren’t neat. They’re digital fragmentation. They reflect how our work has become faster, more collaborative, and more digital by default.
The longer you’ve been with a company, the more of these fragments you’ve accumulated. Some of these bookmarks you use daily. Some you’ve never touched after the first time you bookmarked them.
These “bookmark-like” interactions are happening constantly. You’re gathering critical knowledge whether you realize it or not. But as this information multiplies, so does the risk: things get lost, teams get out of sync, and no one’s sure if the link they’re using is still valid.
The Unknown Bookmarks
Right now there are myriad bookmarks in your organization that exist outside of any centralized knowledge base or shared system. Someone on your team undoubtedly has the perfect link for a critical resource, a valuable piece of information, or a frequently used tool that you wish you had access to right now. These unshared bookmarks represent a significant untapped well of institutional knowledge, hindering efficiency and potentially forcing colleagues to duplicate effort in their search for solutions.
A Better Way - Waypoints
Wayfinder is an easy to use and intelligent bookmark manager that manages “Waypoints” like magic. Waypoints are your team’s most important links, keeping everyone on the same page and in the loop.
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Waypoints are:
- Team collaborative bookmarks, yet still personalized to you
- Dynamic, intelligent recommendations of related links
- Automatically maintained, accurate and up-to-date
- Time to value: less than 5 minutes up and running
- Easily accessed using `way` in address bar or slack
- New team members get all the links day-one
Waypoints are the modern bookmarks you didn’t know you were missing.
With Wayfinder, users can choose from your organization’s Waypoints or create their own. Over time, these Waypoints evolve and improve through collective use, becoming more valuable and accurate as your team grows. If a Waypoint starts to age out, Wayfinder eventually prunes it away.
From Chaos to Clarity
The days of hunting through Slack threads for “that link someone shared last month” are over. No more asking teammates to re-share resources they’ve already bookmarked. No more new hires spending their first week discovering tools the rest of the team has been using for years.
Wayfinder transforms your scattered bookmark ecosystem into a living, breathing knowledge base. When links break, the system knows. When better resources emerge, they naturally bubble up. When teams collaborate, their collective bookmarking intelligence makes everyone more effective.
Bookmarks have evolved. Isn’t it time your bookmark management evolved too?
