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I also tried to use notion.so (an amazing tool !) to manage my bookmarks, but the plugin "Notion Web Clipper" does not allow to add tags when you save a link.
And you, how do you deal with your bookmarks? Any good tips to keep interesting resources close to you?
I have 10/15 bookmarks in the top toolbar that are releant to my work. All the rest goes into limbo, and I don't even bookmark much anymore.
When needed, I write notes (wiki, or paper) with links contextualized by topic/need.
The problem with bookmarks is those 3 together (that are required for bookmarks to be of any usefulness - to me anyway):
1) it's easy to create one, there should be more friction;
2) it's hard to have a long-term storage/indexing system (Delicious & equivalents were a good direction);
3) it requires a custom setup for bookmark search to be integrated.
Also, in the mid-term, most URLs are broken.
A paper notebook, on the other hand:
1) requires a conscious effort to note something done (and to have around also);
2) is relatively a secure & long term storage; it's discoverable;
3) the effort marks a memory inprint that helps indexing in long term memory, just for the "I remember I noted that down somewhere when I was in...".
My offline bookmarks/notes/snippets/activities feel way more productive and fulfilling than the computer-based ones in the long-term.
And then it happened again with Reddit. Same thing: I save an interesting comment or post, and then never see it again. I sometimes go back to get a specific comment, but it takes forever to find it. So my solution was to make it some type of game. I find time every month to just attack those saved posts and comments, and check them out 1 by 1. Some of them are either videos that I couldn't watch at the time, or articles I thought I should read later. I watched the videos, read the articles, and then unsaved the posts. If their is a post I think there is a big chance I'll go back to again, I'll keep it saved.
After took me a couple of sessions to go through all my backlog, but after every session, I learn so much, probably laugh a lot as well, and my bookmarks are kept to an absolute minimum.
So yeah, no extension will help you, I'm sure more than half of your bookmarks are a one time read, many are also not interesting to you anymore, and those you really want to keep are less than a hundred.
It's great (again).
I have around 3.5k bookmarks, sloppily tagged, and it's such a great resource to have.
Please reach out to me (contact info in my profile) as I have a side project I would like to resurrect that tackles these same issues.
The benefit of org-mode (or any plaintext bookmarking) is that it makes it instantly searchable in my emacs. I accept that I probably will never have time to properly read through everything I clipped. But it works as a personal search engine: when I search for some topic/tool/etc., I run into some related stuff that I already clipped. It has higher information quality than googling it because my past self already found it interesting and curated these pieces of information. I describe my setup for searching in emacs here: [0].
Another benefit of org-mode is that I can add tags, notes and basically treat bookmarks as any other piece of knowledge I keep in my org-mode files.
Basically, I only use browser bookmarks for services (i.e. social networks/dashboards/etc) now. If it's some sort of knowledge or anything interesting, it gets clipped into org-mode.
For clipping pages into org-mode I tried using org-protocol [1] for bookmarking straight into org-mode; it was unreliable for me, so I wrote my own extension [2]
And finally, I'm working on a browser extension [3], that would unify 'bookmarks' and browsing history from anywhere, whether they are youtube lists/github stars/twitter likes/IM messages or even plaintext files on your filesystem
[0] https://beepb00p.xyz/pkm-search.html#personal_information
[1] https://github.com/sprig/org-capture-extension
https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/
Searched and parsed with Alfred workflow.
https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/alfred-my-mind
The bookmarks are links under ## Links heading of any markdown file. Here are few with some links
https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/programming-languages/go
https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/programming-languages/go/go-...
https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/machine-learning
There is lots more. Around 16,000 lines of markdown in the wiki now. Writing the code to meaningfully parse it now.
https://mobile.twitter.com/nikitavoloboev/status/12165452379...
Here are all the topics included in the wiki. Enough to learn for a life time.
https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge/blob/master/SUMM...
Oh and the wiki of course does not include private links. Those live in my main browser (Safari) and are searched with workflow too.
https://github.com/deanishe/alfred-safari-assistant
And I optimized the top sites to be most popular pages I visit to get my news on mobile. Accessed by opening new tab.
https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/my-ios/blob/master/README....
On mac I go as far as binding certain sites to open with a single key using Karabiner. ie pressing b + n opens https://hckrnews.com
https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/dotfiles/blob/master/karab...
Although now I do a more low-key approach, just storing them in a flat list and for current topics that interest me I create folders. My "focus interests" change quite rapidly so I don't care about archiving anymore.
With the risk of sounding like someone on StackOverflow, do you even need to do this?
I have <100 bookmarks at any time and regular bookmark directories with browser sync work great. I don't have a good solution for efficiently managing thousands. But I also can't imagine that you'll ever actually read all of them, or need to re-read most of them. It's okay to see something on the internet and not save it.
Every bookmark you create is a time commitment at a later date. The more you have, the less time you have available at any later point in time.