Right now, I have a mess of bookmarks, open tabs, and things saved haphazardly in different apps. I want a system where I can organize it all and also keep it reasonably private. Open to all suggestions, whether that’s an app or a tool or a personal trick or some completely different way of interacting with the internet.
You could screenshot or SingleFile it and save it in raindrop manually, but I wouldn’t do that for PII-related records. I use SingleFile to save interactions with businesses, account snapshots, and other things that would get lost in the ether, but I would never upload those anywhere without client side encryption.
SingleFile can be configured to save directly to ArchiveBox and other backends. Recoll has its own browser extension that can index everything you search locally.
They all have tradeoffs. That’s why ArchiveBox has several methods for archiving. Screenshots are a 1:1 visual copy but have size limits, and are an expensive way to archive without heavy compression. SingleFile does not work sometimes (ebay listings), or are huge with poorly optimised or image heavy sites, but issues can often be fixed in tweaking settings. Some formats are hard to read on mobile, or harder to index, etc. If someone who works at a computer used Recoll, I suspect the index would get very large, very fast, but it would certainly be useful for a focused research/work/study browser archive.
Ok, OK. Thank you so much for taking the time to explain all of this! Sounds like you really do need to have multiple tools working together. I might try Raindrop/Recoll/SingleFile for something.