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by alan_n 1227 days ago
Yes, I can't believe how few good complete solutions there are for this that don't involve me curating anything.

Currently I have obsidian notes for different libs and technologies and really useful stuff or things I plan on reading, they go there but search of the page itself is non-existent. For sites I go to again and again because chrome's search sucks, I tag my bookmarks in the url title with an underscore (e.g. _python _docs) and stuff them all in a folder. An underscore actually works and you can combine them to quickly find stuff. For highlights, I don't highlight much, but I use hypothesis because it looked promising, but honestly it's been very slow with any management related features. I also run a local archivebox for pages I don't want to loose. It has search but doesn't show you where the term matched.

And I've been keeping an eye out on spyglass, which is a local search engine with the concept of custom "lenses" that you can create or you can get ones created by the community. It can also index local files and bookmarks. It recently fixed the shortcut issue I had on linux so I'm properly trying it out and it seems very promising. I hope to be able to hook it up to all those different services. Need to clean my older bookmarks first....