I've quit bookmarking tools (and it surprisingly worked)

Until recently, I used to store every handy developer tool I discovered.
But at a certain point, bookmarking just stopped working for me. Too many URLs, no actual system, and there would never be a time when I actually checked those bookmarks.
A different approach which was more helpful for me turned out to be treating such tools not as bookmarks to check out, but rather as applications that can be revisited. Categorizing them according to their usage and having them handy helped me more than I could have ever imagined.
There are some quite intriguing approaches to this, for example using the browser as a kind of private app store (unstore.io comes to mind when considering such an approach).
Such a minor change in my mind helped me minimize unnecessary searches.
I would like to hear your take on this matter.