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I do bookmark them, but I end up almost not using it.

The only thing that actually kind of works for me is to bookmark stuff in "sessions" and then open the all tabs the next time I want to work on something. For instance I was trying something very specific involving deep learning at my job, then I had to do some actual work to prepare an article and I put that DL project aside. So, I make a bookmark folder with all the open tabs and closed the window. Now I got back to that DL experiment opened the all tabs again and that kind of worked for me. But this is not really a reference system, it's just a "sessions" system.

As for the traditional role of bookmarks, I don't think they will ever work for me without a single main thing: Full text search.

Every few months I try to clean the mess my bookmarks have become since I can't find what I need and a few months after everything is a mess again.

The tag or folder system simply just doesn't work for me, I keep too much stuff to check later as ideias and then I can't really find it because I have this folder "check later" where I have dozens of separate ideias and I can't really just find that one idea I had.

The solution seems to be some kind of full text search, where I can have a way to describe in a fuzzy way what I was doing, something like: "python, maps, names, germany" and go back to that post I remember where they where doing some analysis of the "last names of people in germany in different regions" and that I, of course, don't remember the name anymore.

I recon it's a very specific problem that only makes sense for people that think the same way like I do, but I'm also quite sure there are a lot of us like that and that this is the kind of solution that at least would help us a bit using the bookmark system.



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