Save, Don't Bookmark (2024)
10 days ago
- #bookmarks
- #productivity
- #web-archiving
- Browser bookmarks often become outdated, leading to dead links.
- Bookmarks only store URLs, not the actual content, making them unreliable over time.
- Modern solutions like SingleFile save entire web pages, preserving content permanently.
- Saved pages allow full-text search, unlike bookmarks which rely on titles.
- Files offer flexibility—backup, conversion, and offline access—unlike browser-dependent bookmarks.
- Assumption: Web content is ephemeral; saving is the only way to preserve it.
- Programming analogy: Bookmarks are like pointers; saving is like value semantics.