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I bookmark very aggressively when I browse. I use Firefox and have search suggestions turned off. So, when I start typing in the bar Firefox instead suggests from my bookmarks. I wish that worked slightly better, since it only searches titles. Would have been cool if some key words were distilled from the page when bookmarked.

In Utopia the browser would crawl a bit from the bookmark to make a completely personal search engine.




Even if you have search suggestions on, using "*" at the start will limit the suggestions to your bookmarks.

"^" does history which is almost indecently useful.


And "%" to search in your open tabs. I also use @wikipedia or @amazon quite often.


I have set about 100 keyword searches too. Though I wish to use either Albert or Rofi for richer "as you type" suggestions and results.


Does it not even use the 'tags' feature? I don't use them but often think I should come up with some rough scheme and start tagging them all, but if they're not used in search...


I usually attach a few tags, but it’s not practical to tag to the fine grained level I would like to search by.




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