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I think this quote of yours summarizes why I still use bookmarks extensively: "If I come across a deep link that's so important that I want to keep it, I email myself the link along with maybe a short description, and it will be searchable forever." I have tons and tons of things that I probably could google/ddg search for, but were really difficult for me to find initially and that I know I would never find again. Some things, sure, no problem, and I search; other things no, I want to bookmark them because I'm not sure I'd find them again. Search engines are really not as perfect as I'd like them to be. The other reason I have bookmarks is to kind of remind myself "hey remember this thing--you should look into it in more detail later. Like soon." So I kind of have two sets of bookmarks. One are kind of like "recent things that I need to remember," sort of like a todo list, but or sites or reading, and then will delete quickly, and the others are references that were hard to find initially. I could email myself things, but to me that's not easier, and it wouldn't help with reminders, because I'd have to go looking for them (if I have to search for it, it's out of sight, out of mind). I don't see the point of something like Pocket, because my browser already syncs across all my devices everywhere. I suppose I could save it to a text file that is synced across devices, or something on a note system, but it doesn't seem better than bookmarks. There was something else I tried that I don't even remember anymore, that in theory would be perfect, but it wouldn't let me organize them in a way that made sense (it insisted that things be sorted alphabetically or something like that). I do think there could be something better, something that is kind of like synced bookmarks, something like a notes program, something like an RSS reader, but I haven't seen it yet. Ideally what I'd want is something that syncs across devices, allows me to bookmark things for reference or later reading, reminds me of "urgent links," basically acts as a news aggregator/rss feed reader, and gives me useful suggestions for new feeds, and is open source or at least has some sort of open API. I've noticed recently--as in the last year--I've started using Google Keep kind of like how I use bookmarks, but that often is cumbersome in its own way. |
For "todo list", marking something as Read Later works perfectly. Lots of bookmarks app do this and it's most convenient to view them by creation date.
For reminders, Mochimarks lets you set explicit reminders on every bookmark or note. The notifications can be viewed in the app, show up through the extension, and are emailed to you. You can snooze the alerts too.
I have a concept to add a feature to track if something has changed on the site since the last time you visited, but it's not implemented.
Mochimarks has a rest api. It has lots of sorting options too (creation, last visited, total visits, interest, and reminders.) It's made bookmarks a lot more useful for me.