I have a personal rule that I don’t bookmark something publicly until I’ve read it and absorbed it to my satisfaction. I can look at my bookmarks and say that each of them represents something in my head. I also have a never-ending list of to-read-and-absorb bookmarks stored privately, and of course it’s a challenge to go back and read them. But it’s fairly common for me to be working on something a few months down the line and say “Oh man, I wish I’d saved [x] - it’s relevant now and I’d like to read it” and I can find it by digging through those private bookmarks.

Intelligence and research has always been about knowing where to look something up more than remembering it.

According to me, the problem is that our tools are evolving faster than it takes for our social intelligence to figure how to use them/get on top of them.

There’s also a conundrum here. I too find it difficult to keep up with my delicious saves - but I’m always more than willing to look up and read what someone else has saved.