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I tend to keep way too many tabs open in my browsers, some of which I never, ever go back and read. Once in a while I dump these evergreen tabs into bookmarks.google.com (yeah, I know), which is just enough to satisfy my inner hoarder that I haven't completely lost whatever was so special about that tab.

I have this fantasy about a browser history on steroids that remembers not just the URLs, but the contents of everything I've ever visited. Not necessarily 100% retention of images and layouts, but at least searchable text. There are so many times when I'm simply unable to convince Google to find a page I read a few years ago. I've probably even bookmarked a project or two along those lines.

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Doesn't pinboard.in support full-text archiving? If so, it's probably still limited to public content. Conceivably a bookmark extension could save a full-page screenshot and all of the text, even if the page requires auth, isn't resolvable from the internet, etc.

I suffer from the same affliction for the most part, but I do end up capturing sets of bookmarks related to research or projects that I share with colleagues. It also sometimes happens that I start a new browser profile for learning a tech and save all my bookmarks from that with the code. That has helped when it's a case of "how did I do this one thing I know I did in throwaway project X?"

Check out raindrop.io, it features search throughout your bookmarks (even pdf contents are indexed)

https://help.raindrop.io/using-search/

Raindrop is one of those just unicorn services for me, fits everything I want.

Not self-hosted, is it? If its not self-hosted, it doesn't interest me. Also, need a proper way to export data, and need to use an open, specified data format.

You can self-host https://github.com/nextcloud/bookmarks

That's not Raindrop though

I've the same fantasy, plus some extra features. The organization of the browser tabs is also important. Sometimes that's because a windows contains tabs all on an important topic. Other times it's because there's a hierarchical-ordering of the tabs. Either way, I'd like to save this information in addition to the tab/bookmark and (optionally) content.

Hmmm...like a sort of fuzzy IPFS, eh? I don't mean this sarcastically...i lefgitimately think this is a good idea. I knwo they have the wayback machine, etc...but i imagine you mean a more local, personal thing...i like this idea!

I think archivebox is basically this?

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