Have you pruned your hotlist lately?

By now you've probably discovered the hotlist or bookmark feature in your web browser or online service access program. As you travel the web or visit places on your online service, you can add addresses to a hotlist or bookmark menu so you can return there by simply choosing a name, rather than remembering the location's address.

Hotlists can be great time-savers, but their time-saving ability decreases in proportion to the amount of clutter on them. Once you know how to add items to a hotlist, it's so easy that you'll end up adding more items to it than you really need--items that you visit once and never go back to again. And the more clutter on your hotlist, the harder it is to locate the items you really do return to frequently.

Every month or two, evaluate the hotlist or bookmark collection in your web browser or online service program, and delete items you haven't visited recently and don't plan to visit soon.