How to arrange/sort bookmarks by category

I have a hundred or so bookmarks. I would like to see them come up by category such as - Banks&Financial; Shopping; Ancestry; Travel; etc. Even subcategories such as Travel: Airlines, Hotels, Auto Rental
Thanks,
Dick

Bookmark folders may be a good solution; I have thousands of Bookmarks in hundreds of "nested" folders. 
Subcategories: You can use "nested" folders (folders within folders); try to limit number of "nested" levels to 4 or 5.
*See --> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Bookmark%20folders
*Other Bookmarks info and links --> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-use-bookmarks
For automatic sorting all those folders and files within them, have a look at:
*'''''SortPlaces''''' --> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sortplaces/
*More info on SortPlaces --> http://www.andyhalford.com/sortplaces/index.html (ignore Latest News; it has not been updated. Scroll down to Use section for details on settings)
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I have several folders on my firefox toolbar which I use to sort new bookmarks by topic. If I add a new bookmark to a folder it is alwas placed at the bottom (below existing bookmarks) which is somewhat annoying with a increasing number of bookmarks. I would like to have the bookmarks recently added at the top of the folder (above existing bookmarks).
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* [[Restore bookmarks from backup or move them to another computer#w_manual-backup]]_manual-backup

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Start here. http://www.cultofmac.com/how-to-manage-safari-bookmarks-efficiently-macrx/35616
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"One thing that bugs me is that there is no option in Safari to alphabetize bookmarks. I had a crazy idea about how to accomplish this, and it seems to work. Hopefully I'm not missing something more obvious.
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*See --> https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Sorting%20bookmarks
*Other info and links about Bookmarks --> https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/how-do-i-use-bookmarks
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*'''''SortPlaces''''' --> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sortplaces/
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How do you edit, export, Sort bookmarks alphabetically or any other means? No add on's or other options can be found to do the most simplest things to a collection of Bookmarks?

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All answers I've found so far describe how to sort the bookmarks WITHIN a folder. I need to sort the actual folders, not their contents.

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