The problem with bookmarks is not whether i need 2 or 4 clicks - it's about sync, browser & device integration, search, temporary dumps with follow-up, intelligent tagging, storing an offline copy, read-later formatting, adding metadata and even credentials, compilations, research buckets, etc.
Neither pinboard nor delicious have solved this for me and i doubt some fancy d&d tool will do it.
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And that is why I use Firefox sync, and I work on hosting my own sync node on a VPS. None of my co-workers understand the utility boost in seeing, all from a server-side encrypted store:
- Passwords - Bookmarks - History - Open tabs on other devices - Extensions - The list goes on
You can say the other things about Chrome and Chromium (as of recently, even the encryption part) but I do not see the docs, the code, and infrastructure published and public like Mozilla has done. Hell, someone even built in a sync mechanism in PHP to ownCloud, to make it more useful.
It is efforts like this that make me, despite other warts, a militant Firefox user. The software is ok, but an institution that pushes standards and worries about my privacy, the whole shebang, is really worth it to me.
I use pinboard, and in my opinion it has adequate solutions to almost all of the things you mentioned.
I tend to use it more as a history of sites that I've looked at though, for research I would use Zotero.
Even though thinkery's (http://thinkery.me/) main purpose is not storing bookmarks it handles quite a few of the points that you list well. check it out.
Indeed. Will have I easy access to my data when the service is eventually sunset? Does it work on iOS/Android?
Those are the questions a service has to answer for it to leave its mark, IMO.
We launched private beta month ago, so now we are focusing on the web app. After few months you will be able to sync with iOS/Android.
Also we gonna build a tool that everything you collect to dragdis would automatically go to dropbox, gdrive or skydrive.