I had seen this but it wouldn't work well for my case because the link leads to the article url, whereas it should lead to the "expanded" saved snippet saved from that page. Having a link pointing to the original url is still useful though.

Evernote does something like this (web clipper). In the left pane it shows the first lines of the saved fragment, in the right pane it show the full saved fragment and it also includes a link to the original work

Evernote works well for saving, but not for presentation. and its search is sluggish with a bad UX.

I like search on HN (by Algolia), it feels snappy and I can find what I'm looking for relatively fast.

In other words, I want to curate my Evernote notes list in a web app where design is a first class citizen. That doesn't mean pompous or flashy stuff, for example I find HN's design serves its content well and pg's site does the same for essays.

Sometimes I think about taking a Wordpress theme with masonry and stripping it down so that it has no visual distractions other than the content (and then adding the extra functionality needed). I'm not sure if that's better than building something from the ground up.