I don't think that it is entirely irrational. When I was in school, I used to take notes in class. Often I'd copy my notes into a nicer form so that I would eventually be able to review them more easily.

I almost never reviewed the notes. The act of recording and organizing them helped fix the concepts in my mind so that I didn't need to.

(I do tend to review my bookmarks from time to time, and I tend to use [Joplin](https://joplinapp.org) to capture them along with notes about why they're being saved, these days.)

I don't think.. I've also bookmarked everything from 1996...

And I've lost everything every five years or so...

I would say 40% of my Google search are for content that I know I have bookmarked someplace... And can't find where... :(

When you type in the address bar it autocompletes your Bookmarks. It does the same for History as well, but you can't really sync history across browsers.

Safari seems to - I just got a new Mac recently and all my bookmarks are there again - probably through iCloud

the app I used for meditation wanted you to acknowledge distracting thoughts head on, then move back to meditation. I'd see this as similar, you acknowledge it's interesting but don't have time now, bookmark it and move on. If you didn't acknowledge it, it might nag at you to go back and read it thru out the day.

That's a nice way to look at it. Like the GP, I almost never return to bookmarks.

same, it's a free-meal kind of hoarding at that point

that said, it may be of use one day and I should finally write that sqlite local bookmark checker / tagger / trimmer / archiver. That would be an actual benefit