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My problem with bookmarks isn't managing them, but remembering that they exist. It always seems faster to type words into google than to try to remember whatever taxonomy or tagging scheme. And I never go back to check for "something cool on the internet" at all.

I made an app that shows me N of my previous bookmarks per day at random, loosely following spaced repetition. Seeing the same articles/conversations/tutorials multiple times helps me to recall them when needed, and I sometimes have serendipitous ideas.

I've been doing this for years and it's amazing how much of the internet is broken. Maybe 20% of my bookmarks don't load and require the wayback machine. hacker news comment pages always work though :)




Same here. Bookmarks basically became obsolete once search got good enough.


But after search got good, it got bad. Or at least increasingly strained by the sheer magnitude of shit now online.


It's still better than the early 2000's, which is the last time I really needed "bookmarks."


My experience with this is very, very different. I think Google search has generally become much worse than then, although other search engines seem to be at about early 2000's quality level.


Even with the trend of personalized search, bookmarking still has a place because it keeps the act of sharing web content social. Right now, there isn’t a way to search through the web pages curated and recommended by a friend or an expert.

Edit: Reddit is a possible example of the above, but what I meant is an automatic curation of search to niche ness or specificity of people.


Tell us more about your app? What OS/browsers does it work for?


it's entirely for personal use. this iteration is an android app with a ui similar to twitter.

I manually save urls to a file in broad categories and occasionally import them into a database. It parses titles tags, favicons and some content. Some times I do different ml things with page content (lsi models, summaries, etc), but not recently.

Literally anyone here could make this in an afternoon




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