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Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

#131

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I switched from Raindrop to Linkwarden. The reading/annotation is not as smooth but I don't really use it for that. It's self hostable and has integration with floccus for bookmark syncing with a browser.

Does it support tagging?

Yes. If you're into it, it has an AI tagging feature that will add tags based on content.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

#133
I save my book mark URLs in a file and clean it up from time to time. I’ll pass it to a LLM for format as bookmarks for my browser. Then I quickly scan thru all the bookmarks for updates to particles. Mostly news and blogs. Doing it this way I find it more structured and my MONTHLY review is done infrequently.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

#134
I still bookmark websites, but only using Firefox's native bookmarks, not on external sites. I have tried using start.me for bookmarking, but it's kind of uncomfortable compared to just tapping the browser's "star" button and have it synchronized between my two (three? Firefox on windows acts as a different device than Firefox on Linux; makes sense since none of them can access data from the other) devices. I have tried making my own bookmark site, but failed. I often have a WhatsApp group, Telegram chat or Discord channel, where I drop all the links.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

#137

I sometimes describe Instapaper as "/dev/null for web content". I reflexively share to Instapaper not to read it later, but to absolve guilt for not reading it at all. It is one of my weirdest web habits, on reflection. OTOH, back when del.icio.us was good, I used it for roughly the same purpose. These days, I still send links to Instapaper when they are essays or articles. I send links to Raindrop.io when they are a…

Instapaper has a lovely "Shuffle" sort option. I usually don't feel like reading what I saved last, and randomly picking one of the first 5 articles the Shuffle option presents ensures that I read at least something!

Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

#138
I built a simple bookmark manager myself a couple of years ago:

https://link.horse

Mostly it just lets you apply any arbitrary number of tags to a link and the groups then together. The other key was building a bookmarklet to make saving them easy.

I don’t plan on monetizing it or really adding that many new features, but it’s worked great for me for a few years now.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

#140
- native browser bookmarks: things I visit regularly and want to access quickly, like the website of my bank. - read-later-links: I send it to my todo app, and read it the next day or delete it. No piling off links I never read. - topic-specific links like "tool to extract tables from PDFs" go into my note taking system (in my case Obsidian), where I can also write notes on the links properly
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