You could try...

https://github.com/burtonator/polar-bookshelf https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox

Both allow you to save web pages locally. Polar is easier to use and it's an Electron based desktop app. ArchiveBox uses a CLI and requires Python I believe.

> And link rot is also real

True. I have a script that sends my bookmarks to Internet Archive's Save Page Now service: https://pastebin.com/uUVE22RD . Since I still have URLs in my bookmark manager (Pinboard[0]), finding the pages in IA is simple.

I'm also sometimes scraping documentations with HTTrack (webhttrack), when they aren't available as docsets (Zeal[1], Dash[2]), for times when I work offline or with spotty connection.

[0] https://pinboard.in/

[1] https://zealdocs.org/

[2] https://kapeli.com/dash

Zotero, the reference manager, is actually a good way to store website snapshots. It has one-click-to-save browser extensions, and it generally saves a snapshot of the web page along with any other saving method (e.g. downloading the PDF if you're on a page associated with a scientific article). It also saves the source URL as well. Now that I think about it, it might actually make a decent bookmark manager.

I have started to use Zotero for managing bookmarks. It works quite well - maybe even very well. Also, I can back up to .csv (among other formats) and always have my links. Only downside is to remember to have Zotero up and running - it's similar to needing a local server in that respect.

What about its successor https://github.com/danny0838/webscrapbook ?

Due to limitations in Firefox's add-on API you have to set up web server to actually browse your saved pages, which is a big step backwards in functionality. Although I haven't tried it recently; maybe it's gotten easier to set up.