▲ ▼ I forget my web bookmarks quite often.
Like the title says- I forget to check out my bookmarks. I often stumble across some really cool articles/blog posts which I often bookmark. But the next day, I totally forget about them. The bookmarking feature on most browsers isn't that user-friendly and I have over 500 bookmarks waiting to be re-opened again. Maybe some cool startup idea I found in a blog post or maybe some really cool product which I want to read more about later. It's almost like I need a reminder to reopen my bookmarks, but this feature isn't there on Chrome or Firefox. Just because of this, I have lost out on lots of cool information.
I created and recently launched DoMarks, the To-Do app for bookmarks. It is available on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. It helps you turn your bookmarks into actionable lists. Assign an action to each mark, tag and organize them as necessary, and work your way through them.
You can learn more at https://www.domarks.app
Hi Sayan,
I had the same problem and I made a bookmarks manager which actually works. Nobody wants to manage their bookmarks. We want to save them and have them surfaced to us when we need them the most.
That's why I made https://bkmark.io
This service will, among many other things, put your bookmarks in your new tab page, and every week you receive an email with a selection of bookmarks you have never opened. You get many other things such as full text search, auto-tagging, and you can discover bookmarks from the community too.
bkmark looks well built, Congratulations. Perhaps you might be interested in addressing this need gap - /problems/182 with bkmark as well.
Hi there, I'm posting here because I think my extension could help you with this. It's a chrome extension to easily mark any bookmark and friendly display on every "new tab".
Also I'm working in some sort of "bot reminder" who will let you know the bookmarks yo have saves a "month", "week" ago and never opened them again ;)
https://www.pauapp.com/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pau/oiblkeiiodficdoblmjihonngeejcmbo
my mind - https://mymind.com/what-is-mymind seems to be addressing this problem, but it's invite only.
My solution for a small subset of the forgetting problem:
I frequently see something and want to try it out the next time I want to do something else. So I emulate User Agent strings and append lots of "like [common thing I search for a lot]" to the bookmark. When I start typing into the search bar for those other things I'll be reminded of the bookmark.
For example, since file.io is semi-deprecated I decided to try out 0x0.st . But I kept forgetting when I actually needed to transfer a file, so I made a bookmark titled "0x0.st Like file.io".
As a side note, I have a similar bash function called mean2use that I use to define aliases that wrap a command and ask me if I'd like to do it another way instead or if I'm sure I want to use the command. I've found this is a nice way to retrain my habits.
(Originally posted in reply to Abishek Muthian on HN, reposting here at his recommendation)
Hi Sayan,
I'm jumping in with my take on the bookmark problem. I just launched BrainTool ( https://braintool.org ), its a bookmarking solution that gives you a visual side panel which shows all your tagged bookmarks. The hierarchical tags allow you to organize bookmarks visually and you can add notes to capture why a page was of interest. It just takes a couple of keystrokes to categorize and store a page. The side panel allows you to open and close pages with the same tag as a group which makes it easy to keep track of what you've saved. Click thru to the site to see what I mean.
I built it for personal use and have been using it to organize my online life for a couple of years now. I just this weekend made it public on the Chrome Web Store (here https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/braintool/fialfmcgpibjgdoeodaondepigiiddio ). I don't have a reminder feature but I think it might solve your problem even better (and I'm open to feature requests).
Cheers,
Tony
Your product intro page is neat, the personal touch is very visible, I will try it out just for that.
Thanks Girish, thats good to hear. Most of the examples are from my personal use over the last couple of years and my son actually did the artwork! I'd love to hear any feedback you have after installing. - Tony
I am the creator of Markie - https://getmarkie.com - a browser extension that uses AI to automatically categorize and assign tags to pages you bookmark.
I think Markie will solve your problem of forgetting about the bookmarks. AI was the way to go for showing bookmark recommendations.
I invite you to try out the free version and see if the auto-categorization works well.
If you are interested, you can check the reddit post for more info -
https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/jpermx/markie_ai_based_browser_bookmarking_tool/
P.S: Unfortunately we don't have an import feature just yet. I am still figuring out the engineering part of accomplishing it efficiently.
P.S: If I were to introduce an import bookmarks feature, how important is it for you that the imported bookmarks are auto-categorized/tagged? You have ~500 bookmarks and I could use your opinion.
This is what I use to organize my bookmarks and find it when needed - https://getmemex.com . It's not just a bookmarking tool, but also helps to annotate information from different websites into a single collection.
Hi Sayan
I had the same problem and couldn't find a solution that worked for me so I am building my own :)
I created LinkStash which a bookmark manager built to help you organize your bookmarks, take notes and also remember to check out your bookmarks.
It cost $5/month and it currently in beta. If you are interested check it out https://linkstash.app
How is it going? $5 sounds a bit too much just to try it.
Edit: I see you updated the price model
I have made exactly the extension you need! Rewind is a Google Chrome extension that displays your bookmarks filtered by date, with thumbnails and instant search. It takes one click to see the links you saved yesterday, last week, last month. It's totally free and it relies on your local bookmarks, you don't have to create an account.
If you like it, please share the link around!
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rewind/oghafdocdmlkkjipdmnikdcgekjpiapf
While I don't have a specific solution in mind, I just came here to toss ideas around that I think could be part of one. It would be cool if there were a "bookmarks dashboard" that tracked when you set the bookmark and then other metrics like the last time you visited. It could also be useful for looking at the content of the bookmark, comparing it to other bookmarks and suggesting groups/categories. Other thoughts: tagging, sharing, comments, etc. Also, the ability to notify you when a bookmarked page has been updated (via dashboard, desktop notification or rolled up into a weekly newsletter of some sort).
Just brainstorming here!
Sometimes instead of bookmarking I send an email to myself with the link and set it to snooze and come back into my Inbox in a few days time. It can be re-snoozed until you feel like opening the link.
wouldn't be worth another app for me; I can just create a reminder in Google Calendar
I am working on a bookmark manager service, Topiqs, that to some extent solves your problem through it's natural workflow. It collects bookmarks into topics which makes relevant bookmarks easier to find and bookmark collections have different importance signals which will decide how they bubble through your feed. It also have bookmark discovery through people, category & blog sharing. Bookmarks as well as bookmark collections can be described and collections can be shared and even worked on together with other people. A Chrome plugin allows you to add urls from tabs directly into both your own collections or collections you work together with other people on or into an adhoc link bucket. Topiqs is about creating & rediscovery https://topiqs.online.
MyTabs is a chrome extension we built that might address this concern for you. We're currently in the process of making it freemium with a Premium price of $5/year but you can sign up for the 7-day free trial until then. Search MyTabs in the Chrome Web Store. If you try it let me know what you think.
If you think your extension may address the problem discussed here, then you can post its link here after explaining how you think it addresses this problem.
I'm not OP, but the problem is not with short term preservation of browser tabs but to recover previous bookmarks when needed i.e. in general a better, useful bookmarking solution.
Have you thought about an extension to set expiry dates? Or something like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/snooze-tabby/ ?
Here is the link to MyTabs should OP want to check it out: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mytabs-browser-tab-manage/mlbdfdoalijmfolfecgofiajombemecf
Upon reading your post again, I realized your issue isn't even with recovering previous bookmarks. I apologize for that. I'd also like to add that MyTabs isn't just for short term preservation of tabs. You can use it to store and manage any tab/webpage url over the long term.
Your issue is with going through all of the bookmarks that you have saved. Although I believe MyTabs can serve you better in terms of ease of use and user-friendliness, we haven't rolled out our planned snooze/schedule feature yet. For that Spekulatius' recommendation of an extension that allows you to set a timer for pages to open automatically would be a good solution.
One below, from spekulatius is for firefox. Here is the one I found for chrome:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-snooze/pdiebiamhaleloakpcgmpnenggpjbcbm?hl=en
If you would like something that reminds you automatically without you having to set a time, let me know. We can discuss what that might look like and maybe I can build it.
Thanks
True, bookmarking UI/UX has been nearly unchanged from the dawn of the browsers with GUI; I guess it has to do with the philosophy of a bookmark i.e. as a digital analog to a physical bookmark in a book, it needs to be blatantly simple. I agree that the default bookmarking experience in the browsers hasn't scaled up well with the Internet, I do have decades of bookmarks distributed across several tools.