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by sh87 2334 days ago
I usually send bookmarks to my separate email account. I add excerpts and quotes from the bookmark that I find interesting, also helps with searching.

Every few weeks I conduct housekeeping on my email. This moves the good bookmarks over to my personal git wiki or deleted. This ensures that every bookmark I have gets visited at least twice. This also allows me to not overthink before adding a bookmark without ending up with incomprehensible huge lists of bookmarks that I never end up re-visiting.

I've learned over the years to keep this system simple. Understand and realize that whatever bookmark system you use will eventually go away. If its good enough, they will try to monetize, if not they will be forced to close shop. Either way it gets killed, at least for me.

Another side note: not all bookmarks are equal. Some are just references you want handy when you want to point someone to them, usually in an online argument where response time matters. Some links have golden content on the other side. You want to read, re-read, internalize and remember (spaced repetition) this. Some are work related. Some are aspirational stuff you want to get to in the future. So knowing what and why I am bookmarking something was key to keeping it real.