At some point in history we collectively gave up on bookmarks and just resorted to piling up hundreds of tabs in our browser windows.

I still fancy the idea of a locally running and private search engine, that tracks everything I do on the web, so I can search my browsing history and easily rediscover things I've read months or years ago.

@fribbledom This resonates with me. The Firefox bar is pretty good at pulling what I want from history, and I do use Pinboard pretty faithfully. But it's requires a lot of conscious effort. See a cool thing, actively realise I liked it and may want to find it later, and put it in Pinboard with tags that may help my future self. It's a little tedious.