The biggest problem with bookmarks isn't the bookmarking; it's the rediscoverability.
Tags and folders aren't even close to solve the problem of surfacing bookmarked links when they're needed.
And the only way to fix this, is to have them integrated into search. "You're looking for how to do X? Here's what I found on the internet. Also, you bookmarked these links about this topic, so check them out."
> Tags and folders aren't even close to solve the problem of surfacing bookmarked links when they're needed.
I think that's an overstatement. I use tags regularly to find bookmarks in Pinboard. They work well since the content was curated by myself. I can find categories of links which can be further filtered into subcategories, etc., until I usually find what I want. It's a great way to have a collection of things I found interesting at some point, and tags and full-text search are useful enough to find them again when I need to.
Would I like a RAG type of interface over my bookmarks? Sure. But it's absolutely not required to have a good experience.
I had the same problem back in the day, so I created https://historio.us, which is a search engine over the content of the pages. That way, you don't need to tag things, you have your own personal search engine.
This is the exact problem we're solving at https://www.zenfetch.com. Right now, as you're working in Google Docs we surface anything you've saved that's relevant. Will be working on a search integration and other PKM/text editor integrations soon.
I used to store links in a Google Sheet for this reason. It's not ideal though as it ads friction to the process of adding a link.
I think a better system wouod be one where the bookmark stores either the "link source", i.e. backlink to the site you found the bookmarked link on, or the "search term", I.e. what you were specifically looking for when you bookmarked the page.
Tags and folders aren't even close to solve the problem of surfacing bookmarked links when they're needed.
And the only way to fix this, is to have them integrated into search. "You're looking for how to do X? Here's what I found on the internet. Also, you bookmarked these links about this topic, so check them out."
That, or a RAG based solution.