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Same problem here. I have thousands of bookmarks and have no quick way to find out what I have. The bookmarks just get lost in the nested folders. I built a browser extension for myself to show all the bookmarks on one page, making it easy to access them and to search them. I called it One Page Favorites. Basically all my bookmarks/favorites on one page.

Edit: Also it’s the first time for me to try to do an extension for all three browsers at the same time, Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.

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I had the same problem for my bookmarks, but I (kinda) answered it using 2 ways: Random link (when you don't know what to search but want to visit a (curated) cool link), and search (search in title, link, tags, description).

On the paper it works great, if only you can tags those links and write a comprehensive description using keywords you'll remember. But in real life, it's something like this: https://links.l3m.in/en/ and the search barely work (because no tags nor description is not helping).

The project seems cool btw!

I do something similar with interactive fuzzy search (CLI), and the search experience is quite good for me, even with limited tagging. Links contain a lot a useful information...

Yeah, if the search is not about something too niche I can find results using the search feature of my share links instance.

Here's a recent example; I searched for "search engine", and found the article I wanted to share ("A look at search engines with their own indexes" by seirdy).

Thanks! My main need is to recall all the relevant browsing information when needed. I have hundreds of tabs opened and thousands of bookmarks. Sometimes I vaguely remember visiting a site in the past but don't recall the exact website and it wasn't bookmarked. So I went full force with feature creep (why not) and put all the open tabs, bookmarks, and visit history on one page. Seeing the full list in front of me makes it easier to browse and search.

Edit: By request, here're the links to the extensions.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/one-page-favorites/...

https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/one-page-f...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/one-page-favo...

Betula bookmarks can be tagged, so to the extend you can add relevant tags, you should be able to find bookmarks you are looking for.

this is literally why i invented tagging

Tags are good. Does the browsers have a standard way to access them? I know Firefox has something. Not sure about Chrome/Edge/Safari. I know some people just annotate the title with tags during bookmarking, like [tag1 tag2]. Searching would definitely hit on those.

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