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Chrome Extension: Aftermark

via Dev.toDavid Christian Liedle

Every bookmark you've ever saved was a moment where past-you thought "I should come back to this." You never did. I built a Chrome extension to fix that. I have 8,383 bookmarks. I know this because I counted them — or rather, Aftermark counted them for me. Most bookmark managers want to help you organize links. That's not the problem. The problem is that bookmarks aren't links. They're compressed intentions. Every time you hit Ctrl+D, you were in the middle of something — researching a purchase, learning a framework, comparing options, saving evidence for a decision you hadn't made yet. The bookmark captured the URL but lost the why. Six months later, you open your bookmarks folder and see 3,000 links with no context. You feel guilty. You close the folder. The intentions stay buried. What Aftermark does Aftermark is a Chrome extension that treats your bookmarks as breadcrumbs, not passive links. It imports your entire bookmark library into a local IndexedDB database and immediately sta

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