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> Honestly, who uses bookmarks any more? They just turn into a bloated to-do list, hundreds of links you'll forget about until one day you try them and the domain no longer exists

Exactly! I use tabs for that very thing. I have over four hundred tabs open in multiple windows, and counting!

(Please send help.)

Ha, my co-workers choke every time I share my screen and they see my tabs. Then they learn that they’re just seeing one window out of twelve.

oh my god im so glad im not the only one. my ADHD makes this so bad

I have 86 tabs open in Firefox in my phone right now

Mine started to show infinity now.

> Honestly, who uses bookmarks any more? They just turn into a bloated to-do list, hundreds of links you'll forget about until one day you try them and the domain no longer exists

Use a service like pinboard and they instead turn into a searchable archive of things you like, archived so that they don't disappear/change. Sorta like a curated personal search engine.

I've always thought it a shame how primitive the history and bookmarks are in Firefox. They don't seem to have evolved at all in 20 years apart from the ability to sync them across devices.

> I've always thought it a shame how primitive the history and bookmarks are in Firefox.

While I agree with you, since you added "in Firefox", actually Firefox lets me do more with my bookmarks than Chrome.

Fair point, I didn't mean to disparage Firefox it's just the only one I've ever used.

Firefox fixed this for you. They bought pocket and turned it into a paid product.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/news/mozilla-acquires-po...

In Firefox I feel I can probably do away with bookmarks because of the address bar autocompletion. I think they used to call it the awesome bar, but I haven't heard that term for many years.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplet...

What's this pinboard service you mention?

https://pinboard.in/

It's run by idlewords here on HN, who also gives great talks and writes on https://idlewords.com/

I want an offline solution for this. What's the point of saving content from the Internet on the same Internet? You lose your connection and immediately lose access to all the saved content.

So, does anyone know of any solution like this, but running locally instead? I tried Recoll, and both the FF extension and the query engine were... unpolished, to say the least...

EDIT: mentioned in another comment Web Clipper + Joplin looks really nice!

Raindrop.io and Pocket can save articles on the Premium plan and Raindrop does it automatically it seems, it does have a few limits though.

Wallabag costs money but you can self host it. I heard it's good!

Thank you! For anyone else wondering: Raindrop costs 35 euro per year (but has a limited free version) and Wallabag starts from 3 euro per year, and has options for 5 and 25 euro, but I'm not sure if this influences functionality or is simply a way of donating money to the project.

I mean I know AlternativeTo lists it as paid.

I would personally recommend

https://github.com/rhizome-conifer/conifer

The intent is a webrecorder for the internet.

It records all js libraries, loads videos, and all else.

Once stored, you can review a snapshot at that point in time.

They have a service option, webrecorder.io, but this one let's you store directly locally.

I'd recommend [SingleFile](https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile) for saving web pages, [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/) for taking notes and [Syncthing](https://syncthing.net/) for syncing between devices. Combining these can let you access any saved pages or notes on any device.

> I type "gmail work", hit return and Firefox opens it in the correct container tab, already logged in. (Honestly, who uses bookmarks any more? They just turn into a bloated to-do list, hundreds of links you'll forget about until one day you try them and the domain no longer exists)

Do you just have a google container, or have you managed to make it so that gmail can only be opened in a "personal" and "work" context and bookmarks open it in the right tab? That's been my big frustration with using container tabs to seperate purposes/accounts like this.

I have containers for personal, projects, shopping and a bunch more. Within work I have several containers (prod, test, dev) as there are different accounts for those - AWS for example

Are you manually allocating your work gmail to one container and personal gmail to another, or are you only logging into one at a time, or have you managed to automate this somehow?

It's automated via the containerise addon, which can match url regexes. Google Regex, which works for a bunch of G-suite stuff (Gmail, Docs etc)

@.*\.google\.com.*username@gmail\.com.*$

A bookmark link for Gmail that works with that regex would be:

https://mail google.com/u/?authuser=username@gmail.com

Edit: What? Of fuck off HN, how the fuck are you supposed to post unformatted text? Ok, got it. I'm not translating the horrible YouTube url though.

Containerise is a must when using containers in FF, it's just so much more ergonomic to use. This should eventually be included within FF.

> (Honestly, who uses bookmarks any more? They just turn into a bloated to-do list, hundreds of links you'll forget about until one day you try them and the domain no longer exists)

I still do but I absolutely agree with you. I'm still looking for a replacement though.