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Bookmarking this, some very helpful answers here.

https://karakeep.app/

I use instapaper. It's an app and an extension.

I have a tab group on my phone where I move all tabs I'll look at later. I think there's over 1000 tabs in there now

You could use a bookmarks manager / read-it-later service where you'd save every article you read (or at least the ones you find most interesting). Most of them have a tagging system for organising by topic, some of them (including Readeck, the one I use) even locally save the article's content so you can search in it too, not just in the titles.

I try to remember what it was called and type it into my address bar to see if it auto-completes from history. If so, cool. If not, then I have to convince myself that I wasn't interested in looking back at that page in the first place.

Logseq for texts and links I want to archive and refer back to, Wallabag for articles and other texts I want to read later.

I struggled with having too many bookmarks most of which I never even visited.

I solved it by creating a few text files to serve as an abyss for links. That way I know that a link is saved somewhere but it also doesn't create a mess within my in-browser bookmarks.

Joplin, which I self-host in the cloud. They have a browser extension that lets you clip articles.

I remember reading about somebody using Reddit as their "bookmarking tool" and posting it to their profile. You can kind of do the same on Lemmy.

I email them to myself.

You could always use folders and whatnot to organize your bookmarks.

But a more fun way might be to make a website and put them into a links section. That way it could be potentially useful for others

I'm trying to use Anytype for storing actual info I want to save. I use too many windows and millions of tabs for stuff I want to read sooner, but never get to.

I use raindrop primarily as a cross platform bookmarker and personal archiver, as the paid plan saves backups of web pages. Just save + add tags for anything I read and may want to refer to later. Tags + free text search makes finding things easy. I don't worry about folders/collections because the goal is speed.

Raindrop only archives public sites like a crawler though, so it often fails due to captchas or paywalls.

I also use the SingleFile browser extension and screenshots to archive amything I'm logged into locally. Recoll indexes them for easy searching.

I've been planning to test out ArchiveBox but the current approach works well enough.

endless tabs.

Obsidian. Categorize links by topic, add a few hastags, and a few [[links]] and boom, you have a neat way to create citations as you need.

Obsidian isn't very private though, if you want something slightly more private in the same general line of notebook apps, I recommend Cherrytree.

post it notes and three ring binders.

I print out the websites and catalog them in the binders.

Sort your open tabs in tab groups

A long time ago I started using OneNote, which was great for many things including simply saving either a snippet of a page as an image or copy/paste the portion I wanted to save - it also included the URL of the page.

This had the benefit of making it searchable.

Today I'd recommend starting with something like Joplin or one of it's competitors. I'm partial to Joplin for how it stores data (essentially files in a folder so it's easy to copy/sync) and it's cross-platform capability.

I started using Zotero for exactly this. Keeps copies of pages, and let's me search in the text (of everything I keep in there, which also includes books)

Bookmarks grouped in folders.

I have a big mess of bookmarks sorted into different folders with titles that describe more of an emotion then any sort of description of what's in it.

I email myself the link/s.