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Re: Ask HN: How Do You Bookmark?

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Post by shreyshnaccount »

mmphosis wrote: post #7

I don’t bookmark. I have a "Home" page with "One-liners & Links of the Day." The links are listed in reverse chronological order by day. Only this month is kept on the home page. There are links to previous months’ home pages at the bottom. Since it's a web page, I am not constrained to how some “Bookmark” manager wants me to view links. I can add whatever I want. Annotations, color, and non-links like code snippets…

This seems like an interesting way to approach this problem. obviously this is different for everyone, but do you find a chronological approach useful? also do you manually edit the webpage? if you have some code thats helping you manage your system itll be cool if you can share it. I like the approach here, and making it a webpage makes it super easy to do some of the other things i wanted as well

Re: Ask HN: How Do You Bookmark?

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Post by shreyshnaccount »

wruza wrote: post #9

Vivaldi has “add to this folder” in every folder in the bookmark bar. I just go there and add. Also its bookmark editing menu is just better. And it can middle-click open bookmarks without closing the menu. Chrome and FF bookmarks are almost useless ui-wise. I still migrated to FF due to MV3 but it feels real shitty in comparison, tbh. Idk how people use it beyond dead stupid use cases. how do you organize, search, a…

yes, ff is terrible at this. I have tried this approach too, but it gets overwhelming FAST. being slightly neurodivergent, its a non starter for me

Re: Ask HN: How Do You Bookmark?

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Post by shreyshnaccount »

daf72 wrote: post #6

I have been using https://raindrop.io/ for this and find it quite useful. Never end up reading everything I save but it keeps my browser less chaotic and adding bookmarks from the browser extension and on iOS is seamless.

Holy hell this looks really cool! its about 70% of what i need it to be out of the box! and it has a decent api as well. I might just end up using this. Anything you have in mind on the retrieval/ search side of things?

Re: Ask HN: How Do You Bookmark?

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Post by wruza »

shreyshnaccount wrote: post #12
wruza wrote: post #9

Vivaldi has “add to this folder” in every folder in the bookmark bar. I just go there and add. Also its bookmark editing menu is just better. And it can middle-click open bookmarks without closing the menu. Chrome and FF bookmarks are almost useless ui-wise. I still migrated to FF due to MV3 but it feels real shitty in comparison, tbh. Idk how people use it beyond dead stupid use cases. how do you organize, search, a…

yes, ff is terrible at this. I have tried this approach too, but it gets overwhelming FAST. being slightly neurodivergent, its a non starter for me

There’s a guy here on HN who tried to “fix” bookmarks or start page. He also sells wallpapers for his extension. Idk how to find the post though. Maybe will update later.

Re: Ask HN: How Do You Bookmark?

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Post by wonger_ »

mmphosis wrote: post #7

I don’t bookmark. I have a "Home" page with "One-liners & Links of the Day." The links are listed in reverse chronological order by day. Only this month is kept on the home page. There are links to previous months’ home pages at the bottom. Since it's a web page, I am not constrained to how some “Bookmark” manager wants me to view links. I can add whatever I want. Annotations, color, and non-links like code snippets…

I like your idea of custom HTML homepage storing all your links and snippets.

Do you feel it's easy to add links from your phone?

A screenshot would be lovely, if you feel like sharing one.

Re: Ask HN: How Do You Bookmark?

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Post by daf72 »

shreyshnaccount wrote: post #13
daf72 wrote: post #6

I have been using https://raindrop.io/ for this and find it quite useful. Never end up reading everything I save but it keeps my browser less chaotic and adding bookmarks from the browser extension and on iOS is seamless.

Holy hell this looks really cool! its about 70% of what i need it to be out of the box! and it has a decent api as well. I might just end up using this. Anything you have in mind on the retrieval/ search side of things?

I think it really depends on how you want to use it. There are 'Collections' which are basically like custom categories you can create as well as #tags. When you add a bookmark you can put it directly into one of your collections and add tags. I have created a few collections around high level areas but have generally just added bookmarks without sorting, then after I read them I will move them into a bucket. The highlighting feature is very nice as well.

I would try it out for a few days and see how you like it. I definitely think there is something psychologically behind saving links and never reading them, I have quite the backlog.

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