I use https://are.na for this. Several private channels and have the FF extension installed so that I can add to them while I browse.
Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
#112I have two processes, depending on the content:
1. If I find something that looks interesting, but I don't know why or for what, I bookmark it and put it in a bookmark folder "To Read" in order to read later.
2. For things where there is a specific need it addresses (e.g., is relevant to a project I'm working on), I usually have one or more design docs going for each project I work on, and the link gets dropped into the reference section of the doc. That way, I can find it easily in the context of the thing I'm trying to do, and when I share the doc with others, they also will know where I'm coming from with my ideas.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
#113I don't. I arrived to the conclusion that just collecting everything I find interesting doesn't make sense if I never consume the resulting collection. When I see something that could be related to a project I have, and I know that I will check it in the near future, I save a copy of the web content to OneNote. But mostly I stopped caring about bookmarking/saving everything that I find interesting.
At one point I thought like this too, but then realized I also like to archive everything in case something jogs my memory and I want to go back and search the blob of "links that piqued my interest". So now I bookmark/save(reddit)/favorite(hn) everything that is even remotely interesting even if I have no intention of going back and consuming it. If the topic comes up again and I remember I bookmarked something like that, then I've got a jumping off point to dive deeper.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
#114I don't. I arrived to the conclusion that just collecting everything I find interesting doesn't make sense if I never consume the resulting collection. When I see something that could be related to a project I have, and I know that I will check it in the near future, I save a copy of the web content to OneNote. But mostly I stopped caring about bookmarking/saving everything that I find interesting.
So, basically, you do. Your bookmarking structure is OneNote. You just scope what it is that you're going to save.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
#115I don't. I arrived to the conclusion that just collecting everything I find interesting doesn't make sense if I never consume the resulting collection. When I see something that could be related to a project I have, and I know that I will check it in the near future, I save a copy of the web content to OneNote. But mostly I stopped caring about bookmarking/saving everything that I find interesting.
100%. I used to have massive bookmark collections all extremely well organized. But at some point in time I realized it was a huge amount of effort and rarely go back and use them.
For links I want to keep, for say education, related to a project I'm working on, or similar - I simply write them down in Inkdrop (notepad system of choice) under the relevant note/header. Honestly I don't often go back to those anyways, but they are there if I need them.
For other stuff that I want to keep around for longer, maybe "This will be interesting to read, I just don't have time now" - I send them to myself on Telegram (messenger of choice). It's search works and it's a great timeline. If I don't think about that article/topic again, or don't have free time to go back... then it gets buried and I probably will never see it again. But the link always exists and is searchable... so I don't feel like I've "lost" things completely.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
#116At what point do bookmarks essentially become an internet of your own making? I guess you need to create a search engine so you can search your bookmark collection, or maybe a Yahoo style directory to browse them. Or... Stop collecting the internet and give your brain a break from data overload. There is a certain flavour of FOMO that keeps tabs open forever and bookmark lists getting huge. Let go of it all. There wi…
The compromise version of this: use Pinboard. Make liberal use of the "read later" function and close the tab. Never open the "read later" list on Pinboard. You've now dealt with your desire to save it for the future in the least inconvenient way.
(Slightly more seriously, if you get Pinboard archiving you can actually search the saved text of the bookmarks)
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
#117pinboard.in It's great (again). I have around 3.5k bookmarks, sloppily tagged, and it's such a great resource to have.
I loved pinboard.in and had the subscription with archival support for more than 5 years. However, the search "full-text" did not work all the time. I used to get some server-side error. As a bookmark only tool, it still works excellent almost all the time.
During the time when Maciej was campaigning (he supported several US Senate candidates), Pinboard was constantly broken. Archiving rarely worked.
Now that he's again paying attention to his service, I haven't had issues again.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
#118I keep it quite simple - I have a handful of folders related to my projects and hobbies. I add related links there, and sort through them, deleting bookmarks when no longer needed, probably once a month or so. For anything outside those topics, I add it to the main bookmarks bar in the browser, and catch up on those things on weekends, deleting them when read.
Of course, it sounds like we have different filters. You said you add a bookmark when you "saw something cool". I only add bookmarks that I believe will have a positive impact on the things I do in my life. There is new cool stuff online every day... I personally let most of it go by, because there will be something else tomorrow.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
#119I have a folder called "To Read" where I keep articles that I plan on reading eventually. Within that folder there's a sub-folder called "Read" that's pretty self-explanatory.
I have an Instapaper account but I almost never use it.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
#120In Firefox, I do these things:
1: When I bookmark something, I make sure I add 3+ short tags. "emacs" "orgmode" "LaTeX". Or "devops" "helm" "plugin".
2: I use a Firefox extension to set a default folder for new bookmarks. It's called "Default Bookmark Folder"
3: I use the SingleFile Firefox extension set to save a copy of every page I bookmark to my Google Drive. This enables me to keep a snapshot of the page so I can refer back to it whenever I want. I use this as the directory structure: "Saved\Web\$YEAR\$MONTH\$ISODATE\$PAGETITLE.html" - example "Saved\Web\2020\01\2020-01-21\Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks.html"
Firefox's history and bookmark search are great. Its "library" window is very useful (ctrl-j or command-j)
EDIT:
I organize my firefox bookmarks toolbar on the same "bar" as the urlbar. So it goes something like this: bookmarks(gmail, music, work folder, personal folder). Back/Forward/Reload/Home. Urlbar. Extensions Icons.
EDIT2: Big shoutout to the SingleFile Firefox extension. The author, https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gildas is a really great person who implemented my suggestion to add the feature to SingleFile to save pages when bookmarked. They deserve all the praise and more people should use this excellent extension (which is available for Chrome, too)