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

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Post by joshu »

kragen wrote: post #134

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 d…

FWIW this is how I saved URLs originally; when it got unmaneagable I built muxway and then del.icio.us. The notes became tags as they were often a single word. Hash because it was a comment.

    http://the.url/ #notes
    http://another.url/
    http://third.url/ #word

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

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Post by jpeeler »

mr-karan wrote: post #14

Yup, I use a self hosted version of [1] [1]: https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding

This is the one I'm leaning towards using as well. (Though https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori was a close second.)

Linkding uses SQLite as the database, which for self-hosting is such a huge win. It doesn't do much in the way of local archiving, but the interface looks so incredibly clean.

I haven't tried this yet, but since I have "HTTP Shortcuts" (wonderful Android app) already installed I really appreciated the ability to be able to send bookmarks from my phone easily without installing anything new:

https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding/blob/ebbf0022bc44bf...

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

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Post by probotect0r »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #118
ryankshaw wrote: post #70

I have the pocket extension installed in chrome. Not so much because I actually refer back to the things I have added to it but so that when I have wayyyy too many tabs open I can click the "add to pocket" button on a few of them and not agonize about closing them.

Do you pay for pocket or use the free tier? I hadn't heard of pocket before, but am looking at it... it's not clear to me what is limited in free tier/what the difference is. "Permanent library of everything you’ve saved" is listed as a feature of only the premium paid tier, leading me to wonder if that means your saved things disappear from the free tier after a certain amount of time?

I use the free tier, didn't even know they had a paid tier, and I have had nothing disappear.

Edit: They have more details here: https://help.getpocket.com/article/929-pocket-premium-perman...

Permanent library means they make copies of the articles and links that you save, so they are available even if the original goes down.

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

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Post by megaman821 »

ecliptik wrote: post #96

I use Raindrop.io and have it hooked up to NewsBlur and ArchiveBox as secondary backups [1]. This way whenever something is bookmarked it's saved in Newsblur and published to Dropbox, which ArchiveBox picks up every hour and saves a local copy and to archive.org. 1. https://www.ecliptik.com/bookmarking-with-raindrop/

I also use Raindrop.io. It is the nicest looking of the bookmarking services.

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

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Post by gxqoz »

gxqoz wrote: post #102
simonw wrote: post #9

I use Pocket, then I have my own tool that exports my data from Pocket to SQLite: https://datasette.io/tools/pocket-to-sqlite

Awesome, I've been looking for something like this forever! I use Pocket a ton and make lots of highlights. But its search and archive features have been practically unusable for 3 years for me despite frequent complaints to support.

Bummer, though, since it looks like Pocket's API doesn't export the highlights or any metadata about them. Unless it's hidden in the "fts" or whatever that is.

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

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Post by gxqoz »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #118
ryankshaw wrote: post #70

I have the pocket extension installed in chrome. Not so much because I actually refer back to the things I have added to it but so that when I have wayyyy too many tabs open I can click the "add to pocket" button on a few of them and not agonize about closing them.

Do you pay for pocket or use the free tier? I hadn't heard of pocket before, but am looking at it... it's not clear to me what is limited in free tier/what the difference is. "Permanent library of everything you’ve saved" is listed as a feature of only the premium paid tier, leading me to wonder if that means your saved things disappear from the free tier after a certain amount of time?

I pay for the premium tier. I've been disappointed by their promises about content being retained forever. There's a big caveat that they don't actually keep paywalled content forever. This is annoying because I might save something that's not paywalled right now, highlight it, then come back a year later and I can't get to my highlights anymore. And they've been extremely unreliable in being able to retrieve all of my content from searching. Articles I'm positive I've saved routinely don't appear in my searches. There's some sort of caching going on where they don't include articles I haven't recently interacted with and they haven't been able to fix it for 3+ years. I really want to like Pocket but they just fail in this important use case for me.
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