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Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

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I bookmark all the time. Hundreds of links stored in Chrome. So many in fact, I made this extension to open a random one so I can revisit anything old and buried.

https://github.com/anthonylatona/chrome_random_bookmark

I missed delicious and built https://linkfeed.io for myself to have a way to quickly post a link to a public page like this https://linkfeed.io/l/anthonylatona. It's very basic but not bad for a 1-week coding challenge!

Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

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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…

> I sometimes describe Instapaper as "/dev/null for web content" Ha! I used Read It Later in a similar way. I thought of it as "Read It Never".

Agree it! I read lots articles and bookmarked them when I like the ideas, or when I want to try that out later. But turns out that “later” is “never”.
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