Hi,

I find bookmarks tedious to use and largely a huge waste of time. I have 10s of thousands of bookmarks and I never ever open any of them except the 10 or so on my bookmarks toolbar

Will bookmark ever improve, they seem to be solidly stuck in their functionality from 1996 and stagnant. Probably because nobody uses them there is no point in improving something no one uses.

So anyway, I thought bookmarks could be potentially useful if you could search text inside them. Except of course being 1996’s finest technology, they never considered possible to save the text of a website as metadata of the bookmarks and they are built on this really naive idea that the bookmark will still work in the future, how pure in innocent of them.

So anyway, I’d like to just ask my locally running offline copy of deepseek 621B to search inside my bookmarks for a specific text and look at all images, video and audio transcript for a certain topic. I know this is a lot to ask of the outdated and obsolete bookmark technology so I’m curious if maybe there’s someone that thought of improving that functionality or if I’m the first one to ever realize that ?

  • jevans ⁂@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    17 hours ago

    It sounds like you want more of a read-it-later tool like wallabag that saves the link and parses + saves the page content. Wallabag in particular is open source, self-hostable, has browser plugins and phone apps, and allows for full-text search.

    You could maybe use an AI tool for this, but it would be a massive waste of resources (even with deepseek) and would only approximate a search engine.

  • Maiq@lemy.lol
    2·
    17 hours ago

    If you have tens of thousands of bookmarks saving all that metadata would be unfeasible.

    I did a search for addons that would do what you want but no luck. Found a superuser post from 13 years ago and that yielded nothing.

    You could write a Python script to parse your bookmarks for the strings your looking for using requests, os and maybe BeautifulSoup.

    Or might be able to do this with ai. I say this as someone that doesn’t use ai but you might be able to export your bookmarks to a text file and use that as input and ask the bot to find the text.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    1·
    17 hours ago

    You might want to try a service like Pocket or Wallabag.

    Pocket sucks for searching, but you can use other clients to sync the content that work better. On MacOS, I use ReadKit for that.