bring back del.icio.us!!!
pinboard.in is a good alternative
Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
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Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#122You are supposed to use Google every time you want to know something rather than engaging in subversive activities like curating your own lists of knowledge!
Even in Google-sponsored Firefox bookmarks are less accessible than 15 years ago.
We should bring back web rings.
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#123Is this related to this post?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32506168
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#124I'm recently using Raindrop.io precisely because bookmarking is terrible in browsers. I want tags, and better search and classification, and previews, and so much more. Raindrop does all of that and works very well
FF already has everything you mentioned.Perhaps has the best tag system.
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#125Shout-out for raindrop.io. by far the best bookmarks manager I've ever used and damn I've tried em all
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#126Because Google believes they have the ultimate search engine that can find anything you want (and can show ads in the meantime). Also this is why navigating Google docs is hard, there is no quickly navigatable traditional file/folder tree, at least not easy to use like a regular file browser in Google Drive.
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
cool i'll check out raindrop, thanks for the tip! but i just wish there were some talented engineering teams at the leading browser creators (cough couch google, mozilla, MS, apple, etc) that would integrate this as a first class feature. a design goal, not a supported extension.
i think if there was any browser to add something like raindrop natively it would be vivaldi. they seem to do a lot things differently than other browsers
Vivaldi don't have tags hence useless when it comes to bookmarks.
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#128I don't know about Chrome, but in Firefox: Chrome now hides the bookmark bar by default Not sure if it is the default, but my Firefox bookmark bar is always visible load common favorite news sites & blogs or load a window with all my productivity SaaS sites. Shift+Click on a bookmark folder does that pick up where i left off on a research rabbit hole Right-Click on one of the open tabs, click "select all tabs", right…
tab stash is a pretty decent extension for quickly saving tabs and then restoring them later with one click https://github.com/josh-berry/tab-stash and unlike some other tab management extensions, it uses native bookmarks to store things which means you can still access the stashed tabs if you sync them to firefox mobile
this is sweet... thanks for the suggestion
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#129You're largely alone.
For news, people use RSS readers. For productivity - nobody's using more than a few tools, they keep them open. For rabbit holes - there's a save all tabs feature in chrome, you save into a folder.
It sounds like you're testing the waters to see if there's demand for this and, there isn't :)
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#130Why are bookmarks done the way they are currently done at all?
A bookmark is generally not highly private. It would be reasonable to sync it as one syncs their notes.
It is the kind of thing one may wish to annotate in various ways.
Instead of bookmarks what I really want is markdowns files that describe my relationship with that site. I want a split screen text editor on my phone that edits the notes field in that file. I want the option to save an offline copy and fulltext search it all. If not, the text file could default to an algorithmic summary.
And most importantly, this should be in a folder of my choosing that SyncThing can access.
I've been thinking about making an external bookmark manager that uses Android's share feature.