I'm wondering, are there more people like me who is sending links to themself to open those links on other devices or to keep it?
Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself?
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#2I built a website to post links to.
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#3I built a website to post links to.
Nice. How does it works?
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#4No. I use pinboard.in for this in addition to long-term bookmarking.
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#5I have a private subreddit to keep links.
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#6Yes I have tons. I use Onenote and find it great for such things.
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#7Use to do this, but it was a headache. I am aware of and considering pinboard.in due to the recent YCF debacle.
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#8I used to send myself links from one Gmail account to another via chat, but nowadays I mostly just open the link in desktop/mobile Firefox tab, and then later use the 'Show Synced Tabs' feature to open it in the other device.
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#9Sure, all the time.
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#10For quick desktop->mobile I banged out this bookmarklet to gen a qr code. Caveats: this was a quick hack and probably doesn't work on everything. super long urls could be a problem.
javascript:(function(){if(document.getElementById){var x=document.body;var o=document.createElement('script');if(typeof(o)!='object') o=document.standardCreateElement('script');o.setAttribute('src','https://qrbookmarklet.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/qr.js');o.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');x.appendChild(o);}})();