How do I search my bookmarks by meaning?

Type what you remember — a topic, a phrase, a vague idea — and Marqly's semantic search finds the right bookmark even when the title never used your words.

Open Marqly and type a description of what you remember — “that video about sourdough starters” or “the article on pricing psychology.” Semantic search matches your query by meaning, not exact keywords, so the right save comes back even when none of your words appear in the title. It searches across titles, page content, your highlights, and YouTube transcripts.

Why keyword search fails for bookmarks

Browser bookmarks and most managers only match the words in a title or URL. But you rarely remember titles — you remember what something was about. “SaaS pricing article” won’t find a post titled “The van Westendorp method, explained.” Searching by meaning closes that gap: describe the idea, and Marqly ranks your saves by how closely their content matches it.

What semantic search looks through

Marqly indexes more than titles. A query can match:

Page content — the article text itself, not just its headline.
Your highlights — the exact passages you marked as worth keeping.
YouTube transcripts — videos saved with the bookmark button on the watch page carry their transcripts, so a phrase said out loud in a video is findable later.

Combined with AI auto-tagging, this is why Marqly never asks you to maintain folders: filing happens automatically on save, and retrieval works from whatever fragment you still remember.

Tips for better queries

Describe the content, not the source: “study on sleep and memory” works better than “that link from Twitter.”
Use the phrasing you actually remember — a quote fragment, a concept, a name mentioned mid-article.
If the first query misses, rephrase around a different detail. Forgetting the title is the normal case, and semantic search gives you multiple ways back in.

For a full walkthrough with real examples, see how to search bookmarks with AI.