I had same issues as you (browsers even didn't have bookmark tags back then)! I used Pinboard for few years, until I adopted org-mode and Pinboard started feeli

I had same issues as you (browsers even didn't have bookmark tags back then)! I used Pinboard for few years, until I adopted org-mode and Pinboard started feeling very clumsy and slow. The benefit of org-mode (or any plaintext bookmarking) is that it makes it instantly searchable in my emacs. I accept that I probably will never have time to properly read through everything I clipped. But it works as a personal search engine: when I search for some topic/tool/etc., I run into some related stuff that I already clipped. It has higher information quality than googling it because my past self already found it interesting and curated these pieces of information. I describe my setup for searching in emacs here: [0]. Another benefit of org-mode is that I can add tags, notes and basically treat bookmarks as any other piece of knowledge I keep in my org-mode files. Basically, I only use browser bookmarks for services (i.e. social networks/dashboards/etc) now. If it's some sort of knowledge or anything interesting, it gets clipped into org-mode. For clipping pages into org-mode I tried using org-protocol [1] for bookmarking straight into org-mode; it was unreliable for me, so I wrote my own extension [2] And finally, I'm working on a browser extension [3], that would unify 'bookmarks' and browsing history from anywhere, whether they are youtube lists/github stars/twitter likes/IM messages or even plaintext files on your filesystem [0] https://beepb00p.xyz/pkm-search.html#personal_information https://beepb00p.xyz/pkm-search.html#personal_information [1] https://github.com/sprig/org-capture-extension https://github.com/sprig/org-capture-extension [2] https://beepb00p.xyz/grasp.html https://beepb00p.xyz/grasp.html [3] https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia#demo https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia#demo