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I'd really like to see an app/extension/browser that just lets me search my history by the content of every page I've ever visited. I feel like I'd find that more useful than bookmarking. If I could add tags and/or an "important mark" to the pages that seems like it would be enough for me as far as bookmarks go and far more useful

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You might like Fetching (http://fetching.io/). It has a hosted and offline only version, and does full text snapshot/indexing of everything you browse.

Firefox bookmarks have tags, you just need to click twice on the Star and it'll show a dialog where you can insert them.

And yes, they are searchable: just type the tag in the Awesome Bar.

It's difficult to build an extension like that, I think, you'd need a search server. If there was an extension that would offload the heavy lifting, say, to my a local installation of elastic search or something like that I'd install it in the blink of an eye. The data would be right there, you could search, organize, backup any way you wished.

The problem (of course) is discovery and availability of the search server.

A "local" installation is no good for most people, because they use multiple web browsers in across multiple networks.

So you do cloud, and then you have to deal with security and authentication and admin etc. Meh :(

Sandstorm.io is the last, best hope.

Cloudron is also attempting to make cloud installations simple - https://cloudron.io

disclaimer: co-founder of Cloudron

I've put much thought into this, implemented something like it, and then decided it was currently a lost cause because google does a good enough job re-finding what you are looking for. It sounds convenient, but google is more convenient.

My google skills fail because I try to find stuff all the time I read before and I can't find it.

Not quite what you're asking for, but have you checked out Pinboard (https://pinboard.in)?

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