Your Browser's Bookmark Bar Stopped Scaling Two Years Ago
Five hundred bookmarks in Chrome. Nested folders three levels deep. Half of them dead links. The other half you can't find because you filed a machine learning paper under "Tech" last Tuesday and "Science" last month. Browser bookmarks are flat lists pretending to be an organization system, and they break the moment you need to cross-reference entries or attach local files to a URL.
This Memento template treats bookmarks as database records instead of glorified shortcuts.
The Three-Layer Link Architecture
The template separates links into three tiers: external URLs, internal cross-references to other Memento entries, and local file attachments. Each tier gets its own header field and up to five or ten dedicated slots.
External links (01-10) are standard URL fields split across two header groups. The headers aren't decoration — they let you organize related links under a descriptive label. A bookmark for a React component library might have Header 01 as "Documentation" with links to the API docs, changelog, and GitHub repo, while Header 02 might be "Alternatives" pointing to competing libraries you evaluated.
Internal links use Memento's entries field type with multi-select enabled. This means a bookmark record can point to other bookmark records in the same library. When you're building a research web — connecting a paper on transformer architectures to a tutorial on attention mechanisms to a benchmark dataset — these cross-references turn a flat bookmark list into a navigable knowledge graph.
File links handle the offline half of the equation: downloaded PDFs, local documentation snapshots, exported datasets. Five slots per entry, which is more than enough if you're disciplined about what you archive locally.
Tags, Categories, and the "Added By" Field That Matters for Teams
The Category choice field ships with four options — General, Science, Tech, News — but any Memento user knows these are a starting point you'll customize within five minutes. The Tags text field is freeform, which means you can implement whatever tagging convention works: comma-separated, hashtag-prefixed, hierarchical with slashes.
The "Added by" field is an email type. That's not an address book entry — it's a collaboration signal. When multiple people share a Memento cloud library of bookmarks, knowing who added a link determines who you ask when the context behind a bookmark isn't obvious from the URL alone. Six months after someone bookmarks an obscure API endpoint with no notes, the email field is the only trail back to the reason it was saved.
The Icon image field lets you attach a visual identifier — a screenshot, a favicon, a logo — to each entry. When you're scanning through 400 records, visual differentiation beats reading titles every time.