I've always lamented the fact that the major browsers don't make it easy to see how old your bookmarks are and provide a way to highlight and delete ones that you haven't clicked on in awhile.
Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#112I do, but I've also come to rely on a plug-in called 'scrapbook'. It allows you to cut a snippet from a webpage and save it along with the url of the original. Very handy, and it also protects somewhat against linkrot. I've tied it to a hotkey to copy any bit that is highlighted to the currently open scrapbook. (shift-ctrl-b) without further notifications or interaction other than the keystroke. Super quick and it do…
I have using scrapbook for ages now, but to save entire pages. It's simple and just works. It's one of my must haves apart from Ublock-origin.
It's handy to have access to the actual webpages complete with formatting and links, but the store could get quite large if you save a lot of pages
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#113For my personal use? No
For work, absolutely. I have a couple of top level directories on my bookmark bar:
KeyLinks
InterestingTech
PrevWork
CurrWork--
Under KeyLinks I keep well...key links, like the links to the wiki entry on how to setup dev environments, link to the Holiday calendar, link to the Jira dashboard showing my team's sprints, link to the company roadmap, etc. Pretty much just links that I'll have to refer to periodically.
Under InterestingTech are articles or things of interest I stumble upon on my day to day, but that I don't have time right now to look into.... This one is honestly a bit of a bottomless pit at this point...
Under CurrWork-* I keep all the links related to the work I'm doing right now. That means wiki entries related to it, StackOverflow links I had to use to fix something, Jira tickets, Jenkin jobs, internal web-app links, code review link, etc. You name it. If it's in any way related to my current work, and it's a site, it's there.
And when I'm done with the current 'CurrWork-*', I remove the leading 'CurrWork-' and move it to the bottom of PrevWork.
I have an awful memory, but this in combination with an emacs org-mode file for each 'CurrWork' iteration I have, I manage to be able to refer to things I've worked on in the past when people ask. After they give me a minute or two to get my bearings of course.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#114I love Firefox's keywords for bookmarks. I can type `gh` and be taken to GitHub, or `dh` for dockerhub, etc. Chrome can only do this for searching, not generic bookmarks. It basically is like a shell alias for all my favorite websites.
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#115I am currently developing PageDash, a personal web archive web-based app. The key difference is that I want to preserve the page exactly just as I saw it, with the help of a browser extension.
Reason for this is that I love saving pages that I encounter. I use Evernote Web Clipper a lot, but it frequently fails to keep the styling perfect. Secondly, a lot of archivers can't save pages behind an authentication layer.
To be notified when it launches, let me know here! https://goo.gl/forms/X1IBqaA03kekR2Db2
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#116I don't use browser bookmarks but I do use bookmarks through pinboard.in: https://pinboard.in/u:jcrites With a paid feature called an archival account, Pinboard stores an actual copy of each bookmarked article, kind of like your own private Wayback Machine. It provides full text search over these articles. I frequently save articles that I read so that I can refer to them later. It doesn't happen often, but once in a…
That's really nifty, but also seems something that can be hacked in a day. Create a script to fetch the articles contents, and reformat it into a index that can be searched. I like the idea of pinboard. I want to copy it. But, I also want to be lazy.
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#117Oh yes! I use them in FF and have organized them in folders with tags for hassle-free retrieval across devices.
I find them extremely useful for tutorials/learning new stuff which I know I need/want to learn but just don't have the time at the moment. Whether or not I end up coming back to them is a discussion for another day ;)
Most of my bookmarks are via HN.
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#118Personally I use the QupZilla browser because private browsing automatically starts separate sessions per-process. Before I throw them all away I collect all the urls in a big text file using Windows UI Automation... it's messy but just barely better than nothing.
Never thought about the following (search vs. bookmarks/history) until the HN discussion last week, though I have always typed in google.com before searching just because browser search money seems like a bad incentive:
There is a reason for that – as a rule, browsers don’t really want you to use history. They want you to search and find things multiple times because search royalties are part of their business model.
A couple of full-text-of-every-page-visited Chrome add-ons textually equivalent to a single-computer version of https://pinboard.in/ $25/yr hosted "archiving and full-text bookmark search" subscription (unfortunately for me I don't like Google/Chrome/anti-privacy enough to use as my main browser):
https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon "Chrome extension for full text history search"
http://fetching.io/ "your own personal Google -- a search engine for all the web pages you've seen"
https://worldbrain.io/ "Full-Text Search the Pages you Visited and Bookmarked"
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/recoll-indexe... "copies the web pages you visit to the Recoll web indexing queue"
Source: Vivaldi browser v1.8 released, with calendar-style browsing history | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13984122 (last week)
Also mentioned: Tree Style Tabs Firefox add-on "shows my tabs in the context I opened them from" | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
GraphiTabs Chrome add-on | https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/graphitabs/dcfclem...
Edit: Added intro w/ my own anecdata.
Another idea: custom browsers per-site-you-use, per HN user megous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13226170
For each use case that is not a free browsing I create an electron app, that never executes any code from the web or uses any external style
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#119I use a website called Mochimarks. It lets you set reminder dates on bookmarks. I mostly use that to check up on threads products, or blogs.
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#120Yes, I do. As a university student, it's really useful to be able to view different course webpages, schedules, important dates, etc - all links that I would access frequently (almost every day)
Apart from that, I also use browser bookmarks for links I want to (or have to) view in the near future. It acts as a constant reminder since it's always visually present.
I use Pocket for articles/links I can afford to view during my free time.