I exported years of Chrome bookmarks and the honest part was what I would never reopen
Anyone can make one clean save look good in a demo. The honest test is dumping in a decade of bookmarks and seeing whether the thing still works.
I build Markwise, so I am biased. It takes a bulk import as a background job: each URL fetched, text extracted, summarised, tagged, indexed. Some fraction fail because a site is gone, slow, or blocks scraping. Dead links are a certainty at that age.
The import checkpoints. If it fails partway, it resumes instead of starting over or silently duplicating everything. That is the engineering I am willing to stand behind.
The unsolved half is archaeology. Some of it is worth keeping. A lot of it is a 2019 tab I never opened. I do not have a good answer for helping you decide which is which.
If you moved bookmark tools recently: did you import everything, hand-pick, or declare bankruptcy and start empty?
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The archaeology problem is probably the more interesting challenge than the import itself. Getting years of bookmarks into a searchable system is useful, but helping people decide what is actually worth keeping could be what makes the product genuinely valuable.
Agreed, and I say that as someone biased since I build Markwise. Import is a solved, boring problem. Archaeology is not solved: a big chunk of an old export is dead links, and for the rest I have no honest signal for "worth keeping" beyond what you saved and never opened again. Right now the most useful thing I can do is show you that, and let you delete. Automatic judgement of value is the part I have not cracked.