Good question. I know the reason I don't use those services, and why I find even bookmarking to be troublesome. Please keep in mind, what follows is my perspective on things. =)
Here's the thing, there are two types of bookmarks: Daily and Archive. Daily bookmarks are things I want to visit often. I have a Tech News book marks collection, and other book marks I for Documentation, and one for work (amongst a few others). I keep them organized as best I can, and they don't get changed much. I use the browser bookmarks for that.
I also have Archive links. These are links I want to keep, but reference later. Maybe. Not sure. I want to remember them. I use Delicious to store that. But honestly, I haven't really used it for retrieval. It's also annoying. I click the bookmarklet, and it pops up a window, and takes some basic defaults, but won't just use any default tags. It's annoying clicking all those tags.
Then there is the other issue. I'll remember this article was found via HN, so I'll think HN when I think of this article. At the very least, I'll have it stored here.
Instapaper is also yet another bookmarking service I'd have to use. So, now I have bookmarks in my browser, Delicious, HN Saved, and instapaper. It's a mess.
Here is what I'd want:
* A bookmarking/archiving system that saves locally and to the cloud. I can use something like Dropbox or Live Sync to move the archive to other computers. The system really needs only save the links.
* I want to click the bookmark button and have it work. I don't want to 'install' a bookmarklet. Hook into the browser's existing functionality. An addon that adds another button is annoying as well. I have too much cruft in my chrome as it is.
* I want the service to intelligently determine what keywords to use. I want it to save the article. The entire article, pages 1 through 8 if need be.
As it is it's still easier just to trust search engines will find what I need or want. Most often, I can google my way to victory much quicker than I can find where I put the bookmark.
Anyways, these are just my thoughts on an annoyance. You might ask why I don't tackle this problem. The thing is, I just don't have any interest in doing it. So maybe someone can make this work like it should. I haven't found a solution that works like I'd want.
[* A bookmarking/archiving system that saves locally and to the cloud. I can use something like Dropbox or Live Sync to move the archive to other computers. The system really needs only save the links.]
What I currently use for this kind of stuffs (I'm on OSX) it's shovebox+dropbox.
http://www.wonderwarp.com/shovebox/
It has even an iphone client but I've never tried it.
Configuring shovebox to have his datafiles under the dropbox directory is a simple "ln -s" one time step, and then you can drop in this OSX menulet the links that can be save as bookmark or as a view of the page (available offline). It even allows to jot text note in it.
Thanks to dropbox I have my work machine and my home machine in sync.
A nice little product, it's not THE perfect solution for me, but it's the best I've found.
Xmarks or another bookmarking syncing system seems like exactly what you're looking for, minus automatic tags. All it does is take your browsers bookmarks and store them in the cloud, so no additional work is needed when you bookmark.
Xmarks also has a rather nice mobile interface as well.
Here's the thing, there are two types of bookmarks: Daily and Archive. Daily bookmarks are things I want to visit often. I have a Tech News book marks collection, and other book marks I for Documentation, and one for work (amongst a few others). I keep them organized as best I can, and they don't get changed much. I use the browser bookmarks for that.
I also have Archive links. These are links I want to keep, but reference later. Maybe. Not sure. I want to remember them. I use Delicious to store that. But honestly, I haven't really used it for retrieval. It's also annoying. I click the bookmarklet, and it pops up a window, and takes some basic defaults, but won't just use any default tags. It's annoying clicking all those tags.
Then there is the other issue. I'll remember this article was found via HN, so I'll think HN when I think of this article. At the very least, I'll have it stored here.
Instapaper is also yet another bookmarking service I'd have to use. So, now I have bookmarks in my browser, Delicious, HN Saved, and instapaper. It's a mess.
Here is what I'd want:
* A bookmarking/archiving system that saves locally and to the cloud. I can use something like Dropbox or Live Sync to move the archive to other computers. The system really needs only save the links.
* I want to click the bookmark button and have it work. I don't want to 'install' a bookmarklet. Hook into the browser's existing functionality. An addon that adds another button is annoying as well. I have too much cruft in my chrome as it is.
* I want the service to intelligently determine what keywords to use. I want it to save the article. The entire article, pages 1 through 8 if need be.
As it is it's still easier just to trust search engines will find what I need or want. Most often, I can google my way to victory much quicker than I can find where I put the bookmark.
Anyways, these are just my thoughts on an annoyance. You might ask why I don't tackle this problem. The thing is, I just don't have any interest in doing it. So maybe someone can make this work like it should. I haven't found a solution that works like I'd want.