In Safari at least, bookmarks appear as results in the search bar so the fact that they are unorganized is mostly irrelevant. That said, I only bookmark things that a web search doesn't easily return, which is a small set of things.
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#12Not sure why bookmarks should be separate from your knowledgebase otherwise. Why not use Notion clipper and a database in notion for maximum flexibility?
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#13It would be great to have AI suggest tags/categories, ability to snooze and recall at set times, and see when the site was last accessed.
I think bookmarks fail because they are buried away and not front and centre, and they mix the concepts of “notes for future reference” and “regularly visited favourite sites”.
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#14Del.icio.us used to be really good. It's a shame they got acquired and shut down. I don't think there is anything that does a good job with bookmarking today.
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#15The need has been mostly eliminated for many people with the ability to search.
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#16I don't know about anyone else, but "giant list of media to consume in the future" be they games, movies, books, or blog posts is antithetical to me actually eventually enjoying that media. The value of having a list of things that I thought might be interesting but not interesting enough to read immediately is basically zero.
For me it's more often quick searches about an idea for something I want to buy/make/research, maybe as part of a larger project.
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#17URL’s stopped being canonical
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#19The need has been mostly eliminated for many people with the ability to search.
Yes, I don’t really ever use bookmarks.
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#20IME: Link rot. When your URLs aren’t valid for more than a few weeks, there’s no reason to keep them; it’s easier to search (not that search is always reliable over time either).
Any reinvention would have to incorporate search and keep track of sufficient content from the page to do a search for its new location. Either that or link to 3rd party content storage (i.e. archive.org et.al.)