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Re: Ask HN: How Do You Bookmark?

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Post by rvrs »

1) For sites I come back to for reference or frequent utility, I use my Chrome bookmarks bar heavily. I have it synced to my Google account in the cloud, and segmented across different Chrome profiles (work email account for work things, personal for personal things, etc).

- Bookmarks to tools I access really frequently (like AWS dashboard) are top-level, and I remove the "Name" of the bookmark so it appears as just an icon in the bookmarks bar. There's a few of these quick-access icons for any given Chrome Profile setup that I have. For work I have Okta, AWS, and a work Wiki via Notion. For personal I have Youtube, email, my seedbox, and Plex.

- Everything else is split into folders for interests, projects, teams at work, etc.

- For things like recipes and articles I will back them up via Waybackmachine and archive.ph and bookmark that instead of the original site

2) For a form of digital scrapbooking for my various interests, of things that are not quite websites (images, videos, quotes, scraps) I use are.na heavily. I want to stress that this is scrapbooking and not a "notes system" a la Obsidian or Notion.

Re: Ask HN: How Do You Bookmark?

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Post by MollyRealized »

embeng4096 wrote: post #19

I have seen on HN suggestions for raindrop.io which another commenter suggested. You may also be interested in notado.app ( https://notado.app/ ) -- I'm not a user, just have seen other HNers mention it alongside raindrop.

I would heavily endorse raindrop.io as a paid user. I was looking for an alternative to Pinboard; after witnessing the founder's behavior/attitude on HN, I didn't want to funnel any more money to them.

Re: Ask HN: How Do You Bookmark?

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Post by mmphosis »

wonger_ wrote: post #15
mmphosis wrote: post #7

I don’t bookmark. I have a "Home" page with "One-liners & Links of the Day." The links are listed in reverse chronological order by day. Only this month is kept on the home page. There are links to previous months’ home pages at the bottom. Since it's a web page, I am not constrained to how some “Bookmark” manager wants me to view links. I can add whatever I want. Annotations, color, and non-links like code snippets…

I like your idea of custom HTML homepage storing all your links and snippets. Do you feel it's easy to add links from your phone? A screenshot would be lovely, if you feel like sharing one.

I feel it is difficult to do anything on the phone and don't use it so much. Adding a bookmark temporarily on the phone and adding the link later is easier from the laptop.

Re: Ask HN: How Do You Bookmark?

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Post by davidsojevic »

I generally do one of two things when I want to "bookmark" something;

1. Open a new tab and leave it there until I get around to reading it later that day or the next morning; or

2. Drop the link into my instance of ArchiveBox [0] and will return to it a few weeks/months later or, more often than not, never again

[0] https://archivebox.io/

Re: Ask HN: How Do You Bookmark?

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Post by mmphosis »

shreyshnaccount wrote: post #11
mmphosis wrote: post #7

I don’t bookmark. I have a "Home" page with "One-liners & Links of the Day." The links are listed in reverse chronological order by day. Only this month is kept on the home page. There are links to previous months’ home pages at the bottom. Since it's a web page, I am not constrained to how some “Bookmark” manager wants me to view links. I can add whatever I want. Annotations, color, and non-links like code snippets…

This seems like an interesting way to approach this problem. obviously this is different for everyone, but do you find a chronological approach useful? also do you manually edit the webpage? if you have some code thats helping you manage your system itll be cool if you can share it. I like the approach here, and making it a webpage makes it super easy to do some of the other things i wanted as well

Reverse chronological shows the most recent first which is useful.

It's a manual system. Web pages, HTML and style are manually edited with a text editor. There is more code, HOWTOs and notes on my private home pages. Here is a public page:

https://mmphosis.netlify.app/links/

Re: Ask HN: How Do You Bookmark?

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Post by Leftium »

Some highlights from my post in a lengthy discussion about adding bookmarks to Kagi: https://kagifeedback.org/d/1560-bookmarks/39

bookmarks are notes that say "this URL is important or useful."

- often I want to add more notes

- adding text content of url to bookmark as note would help find bookmark later (and preserve content)

both bangs and bookmarks provide shortcuts for launching a particular URL

- bangs are just a special case of bookmarks that adds a trigger and/or query parameter(s).

I often want to attach notes/urls to tasks as I work on them.

- tasks will simply be notes with a due date and/or priority

- it will be simple to convert between bookmarks, notes, tasks, and bangs (they are almost identical)

bookmarks can be a todo-list of items...

- to read later

- to check when searching for something

- to do when following a (daily) routine

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Also, I recently learned Google offers a bookmarking service: https://lifehacker.com/tech/google-has-a-secret-bookmarks-fe...

Re: Ask HN: How Do You Bookmark?

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Post by 1024kb »

I have moved all of my tech related bookmarks to Obsidian. I have a dedicated note for blogs I like to read, and a note for things that I want to read later. With obsidian sync, I get access to my bookmarks across devices, everything is just markdown, and I like that on Android, if I find an article I want to read later, I can use the share feature to share the page with the Obsidian app, and it will save a link at the bottom of page of whichever note you select. You can also tag things in Obsidian, which is useful for search.

Re: Ask HN: How Do You Bookmark?

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Post by jessyco »

I'll just leave this idea out there, but https://obsidian.md/ now allows for in app, opening of links, which lets you have your notes + apps all in one place. Depending on what you're doing that workflow can be a huge boost.

The "Web Viewer" was added in this release: https://obsidian.md/changelog/2024-12-18-desktop-v1.8.0/

Re: Ask HN: How Do You Bookmark?

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Post by alfirous »

daf72 wrote: post #16
shreyshnaccount wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Holy hell this looks really cool! its about 70% of what i need it to be out of the box! and it has a decent api as well. I might just end up using this. Anything you have in mind on the retrieval/ search side of things?

I think it really depends on how you want to use it. There are 'Collections' which are basically like custom categories you can create as well as #tags. When you add a bookmark you can put it directly into one of your collections and add tags. I have created a few collections around high level areas but have generally just added bookmarks without sorting, then after I read them I will move them into a bucket. The hig…

> I definitely think there is something psychologically behind saving links and never reading them, I have quite the backlog.

It's like having peace of mind or hoarding—you never know when you might need those links down the road, but knowing they're stashed away somewhere is pretty comforting.

I used Raindrop with 7,000 links, and I usually go back to some of them to recall or confirm information.

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