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I'm not sure this gets frequent development time (last iOS update was about 6 months ago) but everything feels feature complete for my setup using Firefox and Android on Linux and macOS. Haven't had any desire to switch
While tab groups are not searchable (at least not on iOS Safari - hint, hint, Apple), bookmarks are. They take a bit more to maintain, and I find the trick is to organize them thematically, and to either prune them periodically or forget about them.
My “favorites” are things I use regularly, with groups for work-related, interesting tech, hobbies, entertainment, etc., but nothing adhered to too slavishly.
Bookmarks that are not favorites are basically a hoarder’s stash of things I cannot be bothered to prune but don’t feel like deleting.
For pruning bookmarks, I find swiping on iOS a slightly friendlier/easier approach than clicking on the desktop.
I’ve tried a few tools over time, and none really beats periodic manual curation. Save as much as you want, thematically, then clean occasionally.
In Chrome, I frequently use auto-complete instead of bookmarks. I don't need to use deep links very often, just hit the front page and then sign in. In the event that I do want a deep link, I use a simple bookmark. I really don't need too many of them, but I do like my Bookmark Bar for quick and easy links to stuff. More so at work than personal accounts.
I spend a lot of time in YouTube, and so I have a ton of playlists across two accounts. I have thousands of liked videos and a healthy history of viewed videos as well as searches. I have subscriptions for the best channels I watch all the time. So YouTube's organisation schemes are well-leveraged for me, in a way that can't be achieved with bookmarking or downloading locally.
On Wikipedia, of course I use watchlists for stuff. I really should have some sort of calendar or TODO list, because there are a lot of tasks I abandon or forget after a short while. I am largely a reactive editor who follows up on other people editing an article with my own changes, or contributing to an active discussion. I used to use a chat bot that was able to watch for other editors' edits, but that facility was unfortunately discontinued. (Yes, it was a bit like stalking, but it is 100% acceptable to monitor and verify edits if we expect disruption; my usage was always in the best interest of the project.)
I also use folders and favorites and stuff on Google Drive to organise, and if I need to jot an electronic note, I don't use Keep, I just use Docs. I have some offline Sheets and Docs that document general stuff about my life, for instance a grocery inventory and household measurements.
I used to use Evernote and it was fantastic. I totally agree with the poster upthread who mentioned clipping ability with it. Evernote could totally bring your personal knowledge all together in one place, with offline capabilities. In fact, I briefly, fearlessly, used Evernote as a rudimentary account/password manager before I got a real app that encrypted the stuff!
[1] https://www.jabref.org/ | https://github.com/JabRef/jabref
[2] https://www.zettlr.com/ | https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr
Currently I have obsidian notes for different libs and technologies and really useful stuff or things I plan on reading, they go there but search of the page itself is non-existent. For sites I go to again and again because chrome's search sucks, I tag my bookmarks in the url title with an underscore (e.g. _python _docs) and stuff them all in a folder. An underscore actually works and you can combine them to quickly find stuff. For highlights, I don't highlight much, but I use hypothesis because it looked promising, but honestly it's been very slow with any management related features. I also run a local archivebox for pages I don't want to loose. It has search but doesn't show you where the term matched.
And I've been keeping an eye out on spyglass, which is a local search engine with the concept of custom "lenses" that you can create or you can get ones created by the community. It can also index local files and bookmarks. It recently fixed the shortcut issue I had on linux so I'm properly trying it out and it seems very promising. I hope to be able to hook it up to all those different services. Need to clean my older bookmarks first....
Then Google Bookmarks came along, which was perfect, so I switched to using that. Then Google killed the project for some reason and I've never gotten back into the wiki habit.
My life is in Evernote, and it works well now. At work we use OneNote. It also works well.