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I Lost a Research Paper I'd Saved for 6 Months — Because of a Broken Bookmark Last October I was preparing a pitch deck and needed a specific McKinsey report I'd bookmarked three months earlier. Clicked the link. 404. Searched Google for 20 minutes. Found a revised version — different URL, different title, missing the exact chart I needed. I ended up rebuilding the slide from scratch. That's when I realized I had over 400 bookmarks in Chrome and zero idea how many were still alive. Turns out, roughly a quarter of them were dead — pages that moved, domains that expired, articles that got pulled. I'd been curating a "personal library" that was quietly rotting. Here's my hot take: bookmarks are the most neglected part of most people's digital workflow. We obsess over note-taking apps and read-later tools, but never maintain the links we've already saved. A bookmark checker is the dental cleaning of productivity — boring, overdue, and surprisingly ...