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Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by gfody »

mr_spothawk wrote: post #181

I have tons of bookmarks. Pro-tip: make a bookmark, edit the bookmark, set the title to "" . Then you have it's favicon as your site launcher. http://imgur.com/a/mVFYh sometimes I make use of the features "open all bookmarks in this folder". other times I use the bookmark to (as somebody else mentioned already) weight consideration of sites I'm interested in getting results from. aside: at hackreactor, I worked with…

I use bookmark folders in the toolbar sort of like taskbar menus in windows.. the entries get their favicos displayed next to them: http://i.imgur.com/DRcs7I1.gifv

..in Firefox rss bookmarks become submenus with the rss entries as the items. It's great for web comics

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by haffi112 »

kusmi wrote: post #163

I used to, I now use zotero to save whole pages onto webdav, from there bunch of scripts peel the ads off, scrape the text, convert to PDF, store in cms and index for full text search on solr. Also hooked up Dropbox to do the same for one click archiving from mobile. Since Dropbox and the webdav are shared between my partners and I, it's a convenient way to build knowledge base. Experimenting hooking up Telegram and…

Are you planning on sharing your setup? This sounds like a great way to organize research in a group at a university.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by derimagia »

mintplant wrote: post #166
ikawe wrote: post #45

I probably have 500 bookmarks. I never click on them though. Instead I (ab)use bookmarks as a way to increase the weight of URLs in chrome's navigation bar autocomplete/suggestion algorithm. e.g. If you find that you're going to a site's homepage and clicking three times, instead once you get to the actual page you want, bookmark it. You can even give it a more memorable name, like "standup hangout" and then watch it…

I do the same. Tangentially, I find Firefox's address bar autocomplete to be far superior to Chrome's (better partial/fuzzy matching and combination matches across URL and page titles). A bit ironic given one is the product of a search company.

Chrome has a flag in chrome:\\flags to enable partial matches.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by derimagia »

cyberferret wrote: post #155

All the time in Chrome. I have a fairly rigid structure in my Bookmarks folders, where I categorise all my hobby and professional interests. I like that it is synchronised across all my devices too. I used to use Pocket a lot to do similar things, but categorising, and browsing the saved links was a little too cumbersome. Plus I like that I can search just within my plethora of bookmarks if I want to reference someth…

I recommend checking out https://vimium.github.io/, provides a lot of shortcuts (You don't even need to know vim despite the name). "b" brings up a box like this:

https://i.imgur.com/qqDKqZ6.png

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by ravendug »

kusmi wrote: post #163

I used to, I now use zotero to save whole pages onto webdav, from there bunch of scripts peel the ads off, scrape the text, convert to PDF, store in cms and index for full text search on solr. Also hooked up Dropbox to do the same for one click archiving from mobile. Since Dropbox and the webdav are shared between my partners and I, it's a convenient way to build knowledge base. Experimenting hooking up Telegram and…

Sounds awesome! Have you ever considered turning it into a product/service?

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by kxyvr »

I have hundreds of bookmarks stored across dozens of folders based on topic. I've been burned in the past with Google changing their search algorithm and not being able to find material easily, so I just bookmark everything I want to refer to later now. To that end, I primarily use Firefox and periodically archive them using the "Import and Backup" option from the bookmarks folder. That works alright as it produces an HTML file with the entries, but I'd like something more program independent. Does anyone know a good utility for offline archiving of bookmarks in a mostly browser independent way?

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by sriku »

I use but don't rely on bookmarks as I usually want to add some information when saving a reference. My tool of choice is Zotero [1] which I started using during researcher days and never looked back. If you organize your references into collections, then zotero can make some nice summaries for you.

[1]: https://www.zotero.org

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by Too »

bm98 wrote: post #88

I'm a little surprised that the majority of the answers here are Yes! I help my parents and my kids work with bookmarks but I have none myself; and I was beginning to think that bookmarks were primarily used by non-technical people. I guess I was wrong! Everything I need is a simple URL (like, my bank: usaa.com - why would I bookmark that?) or a quick Google search away. If I come across a deep link that's so importa…

usaa.com is the best case example, it's just 8 characters and very fast to type but news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100 is 37, i'd much rather just type new and get the autocompletion of the rest. Also i don't want to remember if it was over?points=100 or points?over=100.

You also get the benefit of not misspelling things, and your bookmark goes straight to the https-site reducing the risk of MITM.

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