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Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

#22
Yes, I have a lot of bookmarks. When I bookmark a page, I add some keywords to the bookmark's title so I can easily find it in the future. It's not strictly tagging, I just try thinking of words the future me could use when searching for a particular bookmark.

However, I've never used any bookmarking service. It makes sense if you want to share your bookmarks, but I prefer to keep them private.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

#23
I've been using Shaarli[1] for the past 15 years, and I'm very happy with it. The code base is small and stable enough (the official version hasn't got a single update over the past 12 years, even though the author is still using it daily[2]) you can easily tweak it to your tastes.

[1]: https://github.com/sebsauvage/Shaarli

[2]: https://sebsauvage.net/links/

Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

#24
I bookmark things in Firefox. No addons or online services. I only browse the web from a Linux mini-PC that is dedicated to HN. I periodically export them as a date-named json and html file and that gets backed up to a dozen external devices.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

#26
post #12
post #9

After years of jumping between different platforms and systems I've landed on linkhut [0]. I like that it's social by default and chronological-oriented, with flexible but really basic options for organization (tags and 'read later' flag). It makes it so that bookmarking neat things actually feels like it has a point, even if I don't always organize them in a way I can easily find later. [0] https://linkhut.org/

is this related to sourcehut?

I don't believe so. It is however shared on sourcehut.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

#28
Not really, I have some bookmarks in my toolbar from decades ago that still see the odd click, but mostly I just rely on history, ie "dev 461" gets me to our JIRA board with my usual filters, "github PROJECT" / "github PROJECT pulls" get me to the project or the pull requests.

In fact I've been using Shortcuts instead of bookmarks lately, as those will open on any Apple device in the default browser for the device, not limited to whatever browser you happened to bookmark them in.

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