Google doesn't want you to use and organize bookmarks in Chrome simply because they are the biggest ads and search engine company, so they will earn more money if you search more instead of relying on your bookmarked library.
Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
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Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#152Shout-out for raindrop.io. by far the best bookmarks manager I've ever used and damn I've tried em all
> I've tried em all
_shameless plug_
Have you tried websktop.com?
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#153I'm recently using Raindrop.io precisely because bookmarking is terrible in browsers. I want tags, and better search and classification, and previews, and so much more. Raindrop does all of that and works very well
I tried raindrop.io but I really couldn't get used to it. Will try again.
Might want to try Websktop as well if Raindrop is not up your alley.
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#154Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#155You’re so absolutely right. Bookmarks is wide open for improvement.
I search for something. I save it. I’d like my search to be included so next time I search it includes the thing I found last time. Let me tag it. Let me filter my bookmarks for the last month or two. But do it all simply, not some horror show of checkboxes and text boxes.
Wider than bookmarks, I’d like to save the project state and go back to it later. Folders, browser windows, IDE, documents, bookmarks.
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#156I don't know about Chrome, but in Firefox: Chrome now hides the bookmark bar by default Not sure if it is the default, but my Firefox bookmark bar is always visible load common favorite news sites & blogs or load a window with all my productivity SaaS sites. Shift+Click on a bookmark folder does that pick up where i left off on a research rabbit hole Right-Click on one of the open tabs, click "select all tabs", right…
tab stash is a pretty decent extension for quickly saving tabs and then restoring them later with one click https://github.com/josh-berry/tab-stash and unlike some other tab management extensions, it uses native bookmarks to store things which means you can still access the stashed tabs if you sync them to firefox mobile
I use SessionSync for that, wonderful extension!
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#157Join the waiting list to try the Arc beta by The Browser Company. Very fresh take on a browser, quite a bit of your list, particularly bookmark behaviour, is in Arc.
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#158Safari offers this with a great deal of flexibility. I often use Tab Groups and the ability to open new windows by loading a folder of bookmarks.
I don't use Chrome, but one reason I can imagine would be that Google would prefer you search for content/websites (so your eyeballs inevitably land on Ads).
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#159Because it's the junk drawer of the internet.
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#160I bookmark very aggressively when I browse. I use Firefox and have search suggestions turned off. So, when I start typing in the bar Firefox instead suggests from my bookmarks. I wish that worked slightly better, since it only searches titles. Would have been cool if some key words were distilled from the page when bookmarked. In Utopia the browser would crawl a bit from the bookmark to make a completely personal sea…
Does it not even use the 'tags' feature? I don't use them but often think I should come up with some rough scheme and start tagging them all, but if they're not used in search...
I usually attach a few tags, but it’s not practical to tag to the fine grained level I would like to search by.