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by elevatorpitches 4631 days ago
I use Linkdrop for my bookmarks and it does just what you're suggesting. It's still kind of small, sorta new-ish, but works perfect for what I need.

http://www.linkdrop.com/

Here are some of the things it does:

- Permanently stores the link and its full content within seconds

- Takes a screenshot of the page

- Saves the entire HTML for full text searching (like a private search engine of just your links)

- If the bookmark points to a file it downloads a backup copy of the file

- Creates a backup copy of YouTube and other videos that I drop to myself so that I never lose them (This is the feature I upgraded to a paid account for because free accounts get lower quality video backups and it's the same with screenshots. I wanted high quality everything.)

- Connects to Dropbox and copies all of my bookmarks, screenshots, and video / file backups to a folder in Dropbox

- Lets me email links to myself to save them

- Lets me share with other people who have an account

- Notifies me with a text when somebody else sends me a link (I use this all the time, I get random links from people throughout the day)

- Lets me organize, filter, and sort my links like an inbox specifically for links

- Emails me a list of links I've received at a regular interval

- Has a Pinterest-style grid view option

- Works on my phone

- Can send links to Facebook and Twitter at the same time through it

- Can save links with one click using bookmarklets for my folders

There's more, but those are the main features that I think make it worth using. Check out the site to see a better feature list.

It does exactly what I need it to by acting as an endpoint for my links.

If I want to save something and make sure I can find it again later I drop it to myself on Linkdrop which also backs it up to Dropbox. Very useful in my opinion.