Just switched from https://pinboard.in to https://raindrop.io for this the other day. Migration went smoothly and so far the product is a bit nicer.
Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
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#22I’m working on one which auto saves your link as a screenshot and PDF:
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well you could use it that way by adding stuff to your favourites. A largely unused but useful feature of HN.
HN has a favorites feature?
For posts, it's in the list of button links under the post title at the top of the discussion page. For comments, you have to click the timestamp first.
Note that favourites are public and anyone can see what you added to your list. If you don't upvote spuriously, upvotes can also function as a private favourites list.
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#24Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#25I made my own [0][1] that saves archives of the pages bookmarked, stores the browsing history, open tabs, and more. I've open sourced it but the open source code on GitHub is a bit out of date.
[0] https://www.crestify.com [1] https://www.github.com/dhamaniasad/crestify
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#26Iphone safari is my default bookmarking tool.
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#27I 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 something of interest, I index it with yacy, using a a depth of 0 (since I only want to index that one page, not the whole site). This way, I can just go to my search site, and search for something, and anything related that I've indexed before pops up. I found this works way better than trying to manage bookmarks with descriptions and tags.
Also, yacy will keep a cache of the content which is great if the site ever goes offline or changes.
If I need to browse, I can go use yacy's admin tools to see all the urls I have indexed.
I have been using this for several months and I am using this way more than I ever used my bookmarks.
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#28I pay for Pinboard with archiving, in fact my 5 year archiving was about to expire to paid for 10 years.
The entropy of links is staggering. I'm glad to have archives of some of the oldest links.
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#29Yes I looove Instapaper still after many years
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#30After I reached around 7-8k bookmarks the only thing that worked for me is an orgmode text file in a git repo, but it's true that I don't need fancy syncing or sharing/social features.