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Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by a5huynh »

l72 wrote: post #27

I have started doing something completely different than using bookmarks. I set up yacy[1] on a personal, internal server at my home, which I can access from all my devices, since they are always on my wireguard vpn. Yacy is actually a distributed search engine, but I run in 'Robinson mode' as a private peer, to keep it isolated, as I just want a personal search of only sites I have indexed. Anytime I come across som…

A bit different, but I've been building something similar that runs locally: https://github.com/a5huynh/spyglass

You create some rules for topics you want to index and it'll go out and crawl them. Searching through it is a global hotkey away.

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by jxramos »

asdff wrote: post #126

I started just saving web pages I like. Bookmarks are great but they are so prone to link rot I find, so its better to save a local copy you can keep forever.

what technique do you use, a pdf printed copy or the File-->Save as-->Webpage Complete html thing?

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by kragen »

I use a text file in Git with one URL per line with commentary following the URL, with hashtags in the line. This makes text search through the comments really easy (especially including isearch in Emacs) but doesn't provide archival, thumbnailing, or full-text search of page contents. I don't have the collaboratively suggested tags from del.icio.us but what I miss more is the feed of other people's linkblogs.

Each day has a blank line and a "links for 02022-06-23:" header beginning it.

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by jxramos »

TimC123456 wrote: post #101

I’m using Safari on macOS and iOS as my primary browsers. If I find something worth bookmarking, I add it to Reading List (the keyboard shortcut is muscle memory by now) which gives me a searchable list of offline—readable sites synced across all my devices. I’ve also found the History search really great at quickly allowing me to solve the “what was that ZFS HOWTO was looking at last week?” type of situations. I, to…

so what is the reading list feature exactly, I was going to post to AskDifferent what's the deal with that feature and what does it offer precisely. I had stuff showing up in my list but they all got added there accidentally.

Does Safari download a static version of each page and caches it somewhere on disk and indexes it somewhere in the browser for you?

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by mortenjorck »

sleepyhead wrote: post #83
laveer wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I switched from Pinboard to Raindrop after not getting a response to pinboard support emails. I hope Pinboard’s creator is okay.

Probably busy tweeting

His last tweet is from December, declaring he’d spend a year off Twitter. He’s made it halfway so far!
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