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Where and how do you store all your University academic weblinks, articles, portal weblinks and online periodical files?

Do you just add and store them to a folder or 2 on a specific web browser, like AOL, Yahoo, MSN etc, Favourites list?

And likewise with e-journal artcles, bibliographic databases and conference/symposia alerts, do you just store the articles that you want to remember and keep track of for citations and updates on each of those specific websites?

Or do you somehow keep all your University academic weblinks and web-based resources all in one place somewhere?

Do you store, tag and categorise them in www.scholar.comScholar or another similar (social) bookmarking site?

Or do you create one long Word document of topic and subject specific categories, listing down the name of the website and it's hyperlink?
Or instead subdividing the location of these files into their respective categories under different folders on your "My Desktop"/"My Computer"? (Thus they are not altogether in one place).


How would you evaluate the way and method by where and how you store your Uni academic website links/favourites and web-based resources? What are the positives of your way and method and what are the limitations and disadvantages?


Because my ways and methods of trying to store and order all this stuff is a complete mess that is in desperate need of revising, as it long since become more of a hindrance than a help.

I have been poised undecidedly for a few months on whether Scholar (or if there are any alternatives to this that do the same/similar job to this) would be beneficial to me/exactly what I need and what I am looking for. Or whether the best is still out there that I am currently unaware of, as a computer amateur! So my jury is still out on that but yet my storing of weblinks worsens over time delayed in taking action.

Hence I am asking for the advice and own personal experiences/algorithms of you good University students, whether ye be undergraduates, postgraduates, Ph.D students or post-docs on what you think and what works best for you and why. Hopefully we can all help each other on this.