I felt the need in this once I wanted to mark some of my existing bookmarks (from a custom collection) as Read Later, and more recently, when I wanted to share that collection to collaborate on it, but also wanted to have some personal marks for it too.

I understand that current architecture might be in the way since it greatly changes the logic, but I think ways to privately mark a public collection would be quite useful. Even storing a bookmark as a duplicate in another collection (on save or edit) would be very helpful, but probably still won't fill some of the usecases (unless duplicated entries can somehow collapse to single one when browsing or searching).

Another logic idea would be to make not just an independent copy of a bookmark, but a parent-child relationship, when the original bookmark is a parent, and the bookmark copy is a child belonging to another collection, which inherits all of the parent bookmark properties like tags, and also allows to add new (private) properties. The inherited properties should be locked from edits, and sync tags from the parent in real time, but there also should be an (irreversible) option to "untie" the two and edit both independently. This way will allow to collaborate on a collection, while taking some of the bookmarks for personal management without having dupe entries or old tag sets.

On another thought, maybe the current architecture could allow collections to also store not just bookmarks, but links to the existing bookmarks (editing a bookmark should reflect on both collections). Ths could be really useful to mark something in another collection as Read Later (was surprised it's not possible yet, or I just didn't figure out how).

I am also looking for this feature. I have my personal collections and some other collaborative collections and some bookmarks need to be in both. I believe the concept of collection needs to be improved. Is a collection merely a folder?

Tags are pretty useless for this. They're only useful for searching for something. They'd be a lot more useful if there was a sorting option BY TAGS inside a collection, or if it was possible to share an auto-generated collection from a tag.

I just want to add another vote here and am attaching a screenshot showing why tags are the solution for some use cases. I believe that anyone who reviews the screenshot will agree that tags do not address these types of use cases.

Thanks!

Actually, shouldn't tags be used for that purpose? Just a suggestion.

It would be good to have this feature as I am trying to put together a reading list for public sharing but found that bookmarks cannot be added since they are already stored in another collection.

Alternately, could it just be possible to pin tags in the sidebar like collections so they are easy to get to? My bookmarks are primarily organized with tags so can have them in multiple places but it takes to steps to get to them.

Please make it only. I use Raindrop.io as an archive and to save my browsing history. I love that it will only save bookmarks once - and that it shows “known bookmarks” right away. I understand the use case of others, so an toggle within preferences would be great.

Just please allow for duplication of bookmarks in general.

Youtube now allows for creating a URL that is time stamped, so I can get to a specific part of a video simply by clicking a time stamped URL. But if said video has several parts I'm interested in viewing, without having to manually fast forward to each spot, I need to have access to each unique URL, and thus need to several copies of a bookmark.

I teach an intro to design class and a web design class, and I've just discovered some of the resources that apply to my intro to design class could be great for my web design class too - but I can't have the same bookmark in both places. I want them in separate collections so I have the right resources all in one place for my students.