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Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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

#171
I've pretty much stopped using bookmarks.

I used to have a large amount of bookmarks, carefully sorted into folders. I didn't use most of them on a regular basis, and the links broke over time. The end result was a bunch of broken bookmarks.

The combination of autocomplete, history, and web searches seems good enough to find anything I want.

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

#175
Sites and pages that i use get bookmarked in Firefox and synced to my devices.

Notable things that ai might need in the future go into Notion with (critically) some notes on context and why theyre important. If i xant be bothered to write any notes then its not important enough to be added.

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

#176
post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If anybody is interested in this, there is also a service which offers very similar thing: https://historio.us/

That's mine! Feel free to drop a line if you need anything.

"i like historious" as the only review at the bottom gave me a laugh for some reason

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

#177

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.

Same here, but I've started tagging certain kinds of links. I haven't used the tags much, except to look up recipes, so it remains to be seen how much mileage I'll get out of the tages, but I do like using Pocket as a kind of reading queue to help keep my tabs tidy.

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

#178
post #136

I use TinyGem (disclaimer: creator) as a reading list/bookmarking tool https://tinygem.org My public feed https://tinygem.org/tomcat/

Does Reddit support lookups by url? Since you're linking to comment threads.

Not really, there is some code involved to do that.

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

#180
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…

This is fascinating! I've been meaning to set something up on a spare rpi for this and I hadn't heard of yacy before. Thanks!
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