Normally I use this one https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/pxlet-book... After installing it, when you browse a webpage, you can right click and find the bookmark option on the menu.
Ask HN: How do you save and browse external interesting URLs?
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#22In Linux you can use xsel to grab the url and put it in a tagger using one shortcut, then add tags or comments.
As you can see, the harder part is using what you have tagged. If you have a custom menu that you do searches with, it can show matches, and if you keep a history of searches then more frequently used links can be seen first.
You can do all sorts of things with tag hierarchies and other stuff that a browser won't do, so tagging is often saner than thinking of how to make hierarchies using folders in a browser.
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#23I run into the same issue you do, and I just paste interesting links into Apple’s notes app since it’s convenient to use across my devices. Personally I’ve found it useful to just scroll through it time to time to refresh my memory on what I’ve read/watched/listened to. Maybe not the most ideal or fancy solution, but it works well for me, even as my note has gotten longer and longer.
Yep I do the same. From time to time, I move all my bookmarks to my notes, adding a title as a description, and removing useless bookmarks. I use a classification.
It helps keep the bookmarks somewhere and kind of organised, but is very hard to search for.
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#24My personal solution to this is YAGNI. In very rare situations I visit chrome://history and search, if it is only a couple of days old.
But I do sorta like the idea you hint at, of a 1 click "add to my web" with its own personal webcrawler. I'd give it a try.
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#25I use a self hosted instance of the Shaarli bookmark manager : https://shaarli.readthedocs.io/en/master/
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#27I run an instance of yacy (in non-distributed Robinson mode). Any interesting links I add to my index (with a crawl depth of 0 since I only want that page, not the whole site).
This gives me a good search history, plus it automatically creates a cache of the page!
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#28I've never done something like that, but after reading your post and the comments, I'm tempted to start doing so!
I'm thinking about a script that receives the URL and saves its main content (e.g., using Mozilla's Readability) in a text file. It also stores the URL on the first line and maybe sends a request to Archive.org to take a snapshot of the page and adds its URL to the second line in the file. Then, whenever I need something, I can search the content of those files (I use the Silver Searcher) and find what I'm looking for. If the main content stored in the file is not enough, I can open the original URL or the Archive's snapshot.
I think I won't need to categorize or tag them; searching seems enough to me.
The only difficulty I can think of is that extracting the main content of pages is not easy, and, for example, Mozilla's Readability doesn't work well all the time. It may be required to have a manual process for copying and pasting the data.
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#29I use a system of personal knowledge management (PKM), which I've posted about before: 1. Capture: every interesting idea that I think up or read is immediately stored in Google Keep (on mobile or laptop). It can be very rough at this point, the goal is simply to not forget. 2. Transcribe & Organize: every weekend, I go through the notes I accumulated during the week. It tends to be between 10 and 30 notes. Sometimes…
The thing is, your system requires a lot of discipline. If I had discipline, I would almost not need a tool :/
A very low effort way to do something like this is the following:
1) for any article, I save to read later. I used to use Pocket for many years, but recently switched to the new readwise reader. This makes it easy to search later.
2) if it’s a website or service/repo I want to be able to find later, I often screenshot it on the iPhone, and that’s it. The only downside is that you end up with a lot of screenshots in your camera roll. But now it’s quite easy to search for any text and the new iPhone automated OCR works incredibly well. I also sync all these images to google photos, which also lets you search for text in the images.
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#30I save everything I consider useful as an MHTML file (HTML/CSS/images in one file), which is native to Chromium browsers. This has the benefit of the page not being split into separate files as the normal save page does, doesn't break when the file is renamed like the normal save page does (on Windows at least), removes the need for bookmarks which go dead over time, preserves the original source URL in the file for…
I want this but done automatically (save every webpage I spend more than 10 seconds in) and also work on my phone. Which is impossible I suppose.