A few years ago, a Good Samaritan on HN told me my bookmarks (I had about 10,000 at the time) were my "knowledge graph".
I had no idea what that was, but upon researching the concept, I was mind-blown by the simple truth of what I had been told.
Since then I became even more rapacious with my bookmarking (and especially editing their "Name" field to add tags and keywords), and I have about 30,000 bookmarks now.
And they truly are my knowledge graph. More so than the 1,000 or so text files where I store my notes on various topics. Mainly because of the Bookmarks Search feature. Let's say I want to refresh my understanding of Permutations, Combinations, Factorials (like I wanted to do, and did, yesterday). All I have to do is enter those keywords into Bookmarks Search and I instantly get the best (i.e. most relevant and intuitive for me) articles I've ever found on these topics (because I've bookmarked and tagged/keyworded them in the past). I find that more and more bookmarks end up with 404's these days, but then there's Internet Archive. Invaluable.
Which brings me to Chrome Bookmarks. There seems to have been no innovation in the last 15 years (other than the time they replaced the prior [and post/current] system with the horrible "Cards", and thankfully reversed course due to the howling protests and decided to instead offer "Cards" as a Chrome Extension [which is apparently not popular]). For example:
- One still cannot exclusively search folder names.
- One cannot search within a single folder only (by extension, one cannot search within selected multiple folders only).
- One cannot use Regex to search, or do any kind of Fuzzy Search.
- One cannot download (cache) a copy of a bookmarked page (in case the page 404s in the future) to store permanently in the some Zotero type storage system.
- When adding a new bookmark, one cannot conduct a search (using text keywords) for the folder one wants to store it in.
I realize that some of these features are available via third-party Chrome Extensions and the like. However, I stopped relying on third party anything after I relied on one for tagging bookmarks and this third party Extension decided one day to 404 on me (it shut down).
Please Google do more with Chrome Bookmarks.
Rant over.
(Addendum 1: Regarding the text files: yeah, I've tried Zettelkasten software. The one that came closest to my liking was FeatherWiki. However, in the end I continued with plain ol' text files because they're the most Lindy [plain text files are likely going to be the last format rendered unreadable by whatever destroys civilization as we know it].)
(Addendum 2: there seem to be some people out there who have uncanny storage and retrieval systems. E.g. @Balajis on X comes to mind. When he's in a debate/argument on X, he has an uncanny ability to pull out relevant contextual material, instantly, from his back pocket when the situation demands it. Let's hope they share their systems.)