Who enjoys opening their bookmarks and seeing 500 links in an unordered list? Metadata has been a thing for how long now, and yet no browser that I know of has gone ahead and implemented a proper bookmark management workflow.
But what you really need is a google-like, or even better, LLM-powered search for the locally cached text of the pages you bookmark. README for this software mentions fuzzy search, not sure if it's capable enough.
That's exactly it for me. Once I get a few bookmarks in the list, I'll inevitably need to organize them, but then I'll find I don't want to take the time to do that, so I just don't bother saving the bookmark.
At the end of the day, I just want to dump all my links somewhere and be able to find them again. I don't want to think about where they should go.
I built a journaling app recently [1] (the UI is similar to twitter, but for your personal thoughts), and what I've ended up doing a lot is dumping links in there. What I've found that helps is writing a quick note and adding tags, but even more than that, having a link preview generated makes it easier to remember what the link was later. (Based on screenshots, it looks like Grimoire is also generating a link preview.)
The fact that the journal UI is a "feed" also means I can browse through my history and see when I saved the link, so it has a chronological aspect to it as well. I think having all these affordances for finding things (commentary text, tags, link preview, chronology) is way more useful than hierarchical management.
You might want to check out xBrowserSync. Its open source, can be self-hosted, has browser extensions and an Android app.
You don't have to organize anything. When you add bookmarks, you add them with tags and they will all go into the default bookmark folder. The beauty is that you never have to interact with that folder. Instead you use the browser extension to search for tags, name, and description. Its a very simple app that does 1 thing well.
The UI does look a little dated, but there's so little of it that it doesn't matter much.
That is why I included search on my bookmark manager. I use it daily. It contains search.
It fails to search anything, even it's own folders! or parts of the url. or the tags that gets added and removed from the UI every now and then and are ignored in search.
heck there's a 18yr old bug about performance being so bad in this search that if you have over 1k bookmarks it will just hang for several seconds.
edit: that said, i also use firefox bookmarks exclusively, but just for the (only one true in the entire industry) e2e server backups. Then i just manually export them and search outside of firefox, which sucks.
That said, all you have is the url and description if you don't tag, so yeah, it's hard for it to be really smart about what you are looking for. As another commenter mentioned, this is an area that an AI assist tagger or search would be useful. But the industry want to drive you to a search engine so you can be data mined and shown ads.
* If I have over 1k bookmarks, that probably means it's time to go in for spring cleaning and start deleting some
* Other comments have made it apparent that you can tag bookmarks, but I personally just prepend the names of bookmarks like "javascript js - How to reverse a singly linked list GeekForGeeks" to make it easier for me to search for it in the future.
In the end, I prefer the benefit of not having an extra site/tool like Instapaper/Pocket/Shiori to have to deal with.
But they will search less. Which, as we have seen in the recent Google anti-trust case, is also a point Google looks at intensively when they introduce new features.
Want to open Facebook? Search 'Facebook' and click on the link.
Want to open your bank site ? Again google bank name and click on the link.
I've see even tech people do this. The only bookmarks I've seen my colleagues use are for internal reference wikis and links which are not readily searchable.
I don't know whether this is a search or UX or people problem but the whole workflow can be improved for sure.
It's UX, but Google and Bing want it this way, so...
[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/<term> and https://docs.rs/<lib> come to mind.
If you are doing this often enough, may be adding a custom keyword search might help. Both chrome and Firefox support it. Very useful with random JIRA and other ticket/id type navigation to skip search and jump directly to their pages.
> maybe that's subconsciously associated with my impression that Google Search results have gotten worse and worse over the years.
It has gotten worse and I don't think even Google will contest that claim.
it almost work like I can access all things I need by "search" with Google...until I found Google does not remember anything after two year.
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Metadata has been a thing for how long now
It would be naive to assume that it will contain a systematized coherent description of a page content.
Now there are bookmark tools which are archiving a page for example, have full text search. And you can add more and more features, it’s an endless game - that’s why we have that many bookmarking tools. Everybody has different priorities and needs different things.
Other browsers copied their homework. Makes less sense.