[ay1n]

Yes, I think this is a common problem. We collect things, because they seem worth reading/watching but never return to them. One thing is that some effort is required to read/watch those things but other thing is that we forget that we even saw that particular article/video. So, maybe bookmarks should have a reminder mechanism built into them of some sort? Sombining Spaced Repetition with bookmarking seems interesting.

[pyre]

This is further fuelled by recalling something (e.g. an article you read), and not being able to find it again.

For example, a while ago I read an article that talked about peanut allergies being less prevalent/severe in Europe than the US, and Europe having more cases of other allergies (like apple allergies). It then went on to talk about different pollens that may react with our bodies to trigger certain allergies. I can't recall how long ago I came across this, or where (could have been HN, Slashdot, Digg, etc). I've also not been able to put together a search to turn up this article in Google. Had I been better about bookmarking, maybe I would be able to find this article even if it took a brute-force search through all of my bookmarks.

[ay1n]

Yes, I know the feeling. So even if I know that I won't return to 90% of my bookmarks, I'm adding all of the interesting things so if I'll need it in the future I'll have pretty small set of links (rather that billions from google).

Another thing is archiving all those bookmarks, since after few years a number of them is 404.

[zo1]

If I find something remotely worthy, I bookmark it with the nearest button available. Most browsers have one near the address bar somewhere.