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Ask HN: Do you curate links/bookmarks?

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Re: Ask HN: Do you curate links/bookmarks?

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Post by frumiousirc »

I use Emacs org mode capture and syncthing and org-protocol via Firefox.

On a page that I think may be useful I click a menu item in firefox which activates org-protocol sending the URL to an Emacs server, starting Emacs if needed. Emacs prompts me for some tags and then makes an entry in an org file which I sync to all my computers, home and work, via syncthing. I'll then either simply close the Emacs frame or if appropriate leave it open while I read through the page and add notes to the org entry. Later, if I have reason to revisit then I'll search on terms my brain is able to associate and that hits on the tags, text or page title that were stored.

Scripts and configuration are propagated to different computers using Git via a personal Gitea instance and vcsh/myrepo tools.

Re: Ask HN: Do you curate links/bookmarks?

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Post by possibleworlds »

AndrewDucker wrote: post #14

Pinboard. Cheap, and works very easily.

+1

The Alfred workflow makes capture and tagging pretty seemless.

Edit: just read the op properly, not after pinboard. I also would like a visual manager mainly for design refs. I don’t personally use it but Are.na is a cool platform for visual bookmarking of media alongside articles / sites.

Re: Ask HN: Do you curate links/bookmarks?

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Post by [deleted] »

possibleworlds wrote: post #22
AndrewDucker wrote: post #14

Pinboard. Cheap, and works very easily.

+1 The Alfred workflow makes capture and tagging pretty seemless. Edit: just read the op properly, not after pinboard. I also would like a visual manager mainly for design refs. I don’t personally use it but Are.na is a cool platform for visual bookmarking of media alongside articles / sites.

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Re: Ask HN: Do you curate links/bookmarks?

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Post by rsapkf »

I use Firefox Developer Edition as my primary browser and Firefox Sync to store and sync bookmarks across devices.

I have made 95%(2000+) of my bookmarks public on GitHub[0]. I have categorized them and host them on a public repository(110+ forks, ~1800 stars) and push every week. I have also made the entire repo available as a GitBook with search and export as PDF functionality.

[0] https://github.com/rsapkf/goodies

Re: Ask HN: Do you curate links/bookmarks?

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Post by kerrsclyde »

I'm really careful with bookmarking now. I found a txt file backup of my del.icio.us account from 2004, I couldn't find a single link which still worked. There was some gold which I would have loved to be able to look at again.

If something is interesting enough to keep I clip in into Evernote and tag it, then I can be confident it will be there when I go looking for it at some undefined point in the future.

Re: Ask HN: Do you curate links/bookmarks?

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Post by karlicoss »

Relevant discussion from few days ago: "Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22105561

I capture a lot of bookmarks into my org-mode and I don't spend much time deliberately curating. Once in few weeks I go through captured bookmarks and quickly assign a priority to each one (just a matter of pressing hotkey). Then I sort everything by priority, typically ending up with 10-15 higher priority ones that I would tag, put into my reading queue, refile etc.

Rest of it isn't curated and serves as my personal search engine [0]. Often instead of searching in google I'd first search in my emacs and find some relevant information in my knowledge base.

In addition, I'm working on promnesia [1], a browser addon that integrates links in my org-mode files with my browser. E.g. - when I visit some blog, it would show me that I've got few blog posts from that blog bookmarked (along with my private notes and annotations), which typically means that the blog is worth exploring more - when I visit someone's twitter profile it might prompt that I've retweeted/favorited some of that person's tweets

[0] https://beepb00p.xyz/pkm-search.html#personal_information

[1] https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia#demo

Re: Ask HN: Do you curate links/bookmarks?

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Post by karlicoss »

kerrsclyde wrote: post #25

I'm really careful with bookmarking now. I found a txt file backup of my del.icio.us account from 2004, I couldn't find a single link which still worked. There was some gold which I would have loved to be able to look at again. If something is interesting enough to keep I clip in into Evernote and tag it, then I can be confident it will be there when I go looking for it at some undefined point in the future.

It's a problem indeed, although archive.org helps. Relevant read: https://www.gwern.net/Archiving-URLs#link-rot

Re: Ask HN: Do you curate links/bookmarks?

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Post by DyslexicAtheist »

I use HN submissions as a better bookmark/log of what I've been reading that day (or previous day). Usually post things I might want to revisit later.

I use browser bookmark folders only for links for private stuff e.g. fun+memes, cooking, curated lists of , ... Also I maintain markdown files for documenting changes/tweaks and modifications made to various machines on my network.

As a VI user I never looked at org-mode before. I'll probably do so in 2020 (https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode).

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