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The problem with bookmarking applications is that aside from a few websites you visit regularly, browsing and searching your bookmarks isn't going to be substan

The problem with bookmarking applications is that aside from a few websites you visit regularly, browsing and searching your bookmarks isn't going to be substantially different from browsing and searching the web, so you can just as well do the latter. If somebody came up with a revolutionary new way to browse bookmarks, then this would also be a revolutionary new way to browse the web (or your filesystem, while we're at it). Whatever you come up in terms of search, however, has to directly compete with the quality of Google's search engine.

Cthulhu_ 5y ago
> If somebody came up with a revolutionary new way to browse bookmarks, then this would also be a revolutionary new way to browse the web (or your filesystem, while we're at it). Hence the list of bookmarking apps mentioned, :p. I think they're all trying to solve this problem in one way or another.
Someone 5y ago
> If somebody came up with a revolutionary new way to browse bookmarks What about: - browser saves content of each bookmark - browser’s search bar searches both existing bookmarks _and_ queries the user’s configured search engine - browser shows results (not too many) from bookmarks above the search engine’s ones (in place of its adverts and removing duplicates would be better, but that might lead to lawsuits about tampering with web pages/deteriorating search results) Maybe, your browser should also search your entire hard disk, email, etc?
- fellowniusmonk 5y ago
  Opera used to do this and I can confirm it was awesome, haven't used Opera since v12 so I don't know anymore. Made the switch back in the day because chrome's process isolation and js engine made it overall faster and more stable.
tga 5y ago
Well, your bookmarks form a _very very_ small web, with only pages that are guaranteed to be interesting to you. You're inadvertently hinting towards an elegant solution: forget about trying to organize bookmarks. Instead, just hit a button to add that page to your micro-web, and later only use Google-like full text search for retrieving things. It's the content search part that browsers are missing -- can anyone confirm whether Raindrop or other bookmarking services do it well?
- lucas_membrane 5y ago
  >> your bookmarks form a _very very_ small web Not really a web, is it? The web is not hierarchical like the folder/sub-folder structure of a browser's bookmarks; the web has a network organization. One thing that hasn't been implemented ad nauseum would be a powerful, simple, easy, convenient and effective logic for reorganizing and untangling a hopelessly confused, poorly organized, redundant, error-infested and ill-conceived hierarchical knowledge base such as an outline of a extensive subject, a decades-old bookmarks folder, or the hierarchical call tree of mission critical enterprise software system.
soheilpro 5y ago
I wrote this extension years ago when Delicious was still around. Whenever you searched for something on Google, it also did a search on Delicious and displayed the matching bookmarks on top of Google's search results. It worked extremely well for me. https://github.com/soheilpro/deligle https://github.com/soheilpro/deligle

Cthulhu_ 5y ago

> If somebody came up with a revolutionary new way to browse bookmarks, then this would also be a revolutionary new way to browse the web (or your filesystem, while we're at it). Hence the list of bookmarking apps mentioned, :p. I think they're all trying to solve this problem in one way or another.

Someone 5y ago

> If somebody came up with a revolutionary new way to browse bookmarks What about: - browser saves content of each bookmark - browser’s search bar searches both existing bookmarks _and_ queries the user’s configured search engine - browser shows results (not too many) from bookmarks above the search engine’s ones (in place of its adverts and removing duplicates would be better, but that might lead to lawsuits about tampering with web pages/deteriorating search results) Maybe, your browser should also search your entire hard disk, email, etc?

fellowniusmonk 5y ago
Opera used to do this and I can confirm it was awesome, haven't used Opera since v12 so I don't know anymore. Made the switch back in the day because chrome's process isolation and js engine made it overall faster and more stable.

tga 5y ago

Well, your bookmarks form a _very very_ small web, with only pages that are guaranteed to be interesting to you. You're inadvertently hinting towards an elegant solution: forget about trying to organize bookmarks. Instead, just hit a button to add that page to your micro-web, and later only use Google-like full text search for retrieving things. It's the content search part that browsers are missing -- can anyone confirm whether Raindrop or other bookmarking services do it well?

lucas_membrane 5y ago
>> your bookmarks form a _very very_ small web Not really a web, is it? The web is not hierarchical like the folder/sub-folder structure of a browser's bookmarks; the web has a network organization. One thing that hasn't been implemented ad nauseum would be a powerful, simple, easy, convenient and effective logic for reorganizing and untangling a hopelessly confused, poorly organized, redundant, error-infested and ill-conceived hierarchical knowledge base such as an outline of a extensive subject, a decades-old bookmarks folder, or the hierarchical call tree of mission critical enterprise software system.

soheilpro 5y ago

I wrote this extension years ago when Delicious was still around. Whenever you searched for something on Google, it also did a search on Delicious and displayed the matching bookmarks on top of Google's search results. It worked extremely well for me. https://github.com/soheilpro/deligle https://github.com/soheilpro/deligle