I use standard issue Firefox bookmarking, including a large group of bookmarks imported from the last time I was using IE. I refer to those bookmarks often during online discussion--I just did this afternoon.
Ask HN: What do you do for bookmarking?
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Re: Ask HN: What do you do for bookmarking?
#12I got through hundreds of site a day and never bookmark them. For me the internet is more an experience and I don't' like to read things twice. I can usually find what I want very quickly using google. So my suggestion is to just use google.
Re: Ask HN: What do you do for bookmarking?
#13I got through hundreds of site a day and never bookmark them. For me the internet is more an experience and I don't' like to read things twice. I can usually find what I want very quickly using google. So my suggestion is to just use google.
The problem is when I _want_ to remember things for certain ocasions, like, showing something to a friend, or just revisit if there is a need to. Google sometimes is inefficient for that.
Re: Ask HN: What do you do for bookmarking?
#14pinboard.in + instapaper
Re: Ask HN: What do you do for bookmarking?
#15I use the Evernote plugin for saving random snippets of interesting text I might want one day; and for pages I'll want to visit in the next 6 months, I use 'Read It Later' http://readitlaterlist.com/
What's so nice about read it later is that it's quicker than regular bookmarks. I hit alt-w to add current page to the list, alt-w to remove it when I'm done, and that's it.
The regular bookmarks are heavyweight enough that I just wouldn't do that. (And this allows a nice division between regular bookmarks, links I'll be using for years, and RIL bookmarks, which I could get rid of anytime as soon as I finish with them. I could do that with folders, and that's how RIL works behind the scenes, but that's still more heavyweight.)
There are other features, like auto-saving the pages to disk for offline access, or a personal RSS feed, and integration with various Web 2.0 thingies - but that the core functionality is so quick and easy is the greatest part about it.
Re: Ask HN: What do you do for bookmarking?
#16Browser bookmarking with TagSifter in Firefox.
I still fondly remember Kaylon's PowerMarks. Tagged bookmarking, with auto-generation of a default set of tags and with fast search based on parsing input to a textbox. It may still be around, but I believe development stopped years ago.
Searching on "TagSifter" turned up
http://linux.com/archive/feature/145955
which gives me it and two other Firefox extensions to look at further when it's not so late in the evening.
Maybe the combination will get me close to what PowerMarks offered.