But you aren't the only one thinking that:
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ask+hn+bookmarks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32505314
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22105561
Other tips https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplet...
doing "github <reponame>" has been my way to go to a repo. or "twitter <personname>". i have many other tags: "shopping", "article", "unread", "read", "people". there is a deliberate effort to make my bookmarks searchable. i export my bookmarks once a month in the standard netscape html format. other browsers import that format fine.
CRTL/CMD+L drops you in the omnibar.
To better manage your browser bookmarks, try some extensions. One that I like on chrome is https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmark-manager-p...
> find myself creating nested folders > I find the complexity of bookmarks systems prohibitive > keep favorite/important webpages
A good tags system in parallel with folders can help with all these. With chrome bookmarks, there is https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmark-tags/edpe... Otherwise, there are a lot of alternatives (zotero...)
> I wish there was a way to treat bookmarks as __files__ in a folder
Visually speaking (at least), https://bookmarkos.com/ is sweet.
It’s currently in beta but I’m planning to release it to public in a couple of months.
You can check it out and join the beta at https://ulry.app.
Feedbacks are welcome!
But I also use browser bookmark functionality for short-term purposes, such as linking to reference sites for a topic of temporary interest, etc.
Most often I want to remember an idea, theme, author, resource rather than a specific web page. Regular notes work for that, can embed URLs in my notes.
(These days I save urls to pinboard then mostly never go back to them to read them later...)
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