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Re: Ask HN: Do you bookmark or collect content?

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Post by a3n »

a3n wrote: post #19

I have finally found a workflow that works for me, and I'm slowly converting my thousands of unusable bookmarks (I'm a hoarder). I use pinboard (delicio.us clone) and firefox. pinboard lets you tag a bookmark, and you can subscribe to a tag's rss feed, or a combination of tags' feed. It's pretty clever. firefox has a "live bookmark" feature, where a bookmark is really an rss reader of a specific feed. Peanut butter i…

And, to manage lots of open tabs strictly in firefox, use tab groups: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups-organize-tab...

Basically you can divide your open tabs into groups, and then only have one group open at a time. You can easily switch between groups. That way I can switch focus between different subjects that I'm studying.

Unfortunately pinboard can't see firefox tab groups, it only sees all the tabs in all the groups. It would be nice to use pinboard to "save all tabs" for just the currently opened firefox tab group. Maybe some day.

Re: Ask HN: Do you bookmark or collect content?

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Post by stevekemp »

I store my bookmarks under revision control, as a single HTML file. The file has some jQuery magic to allow tagging and filtering, and there's an online demo linked to from the repository:

https://github.com/skx/bookmarks.public/

(I have my own bookmarks in a private repository. Which allows me to sync to N-machines.)

Re: Ask HN: Do you bookmark or collect content?

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Post by malandrew »

a3n wrote: post #19

I have finally found a workflow that works for me, and I'm slowly converting my thousands of unusable bookmarks (I'm a hoarder). I use pinboard (delicio.us clone) and firefox. pinboard lets you tag a bookmark, and you can subscribe to a tag's rss feed, or a combination of tags' feed. It's pretty clever. firefox has a "live bookmark" feature, where a bookmark is really an rss reader of a specific feed. Peanut butter i…

Since you are a Pinboard user, do yourself a favor and try out Shiori. Best pinboard utility I've used thus far.

http://aki-null.net/shiori/

Re: Ask HN: Do you bookmark or collect content?

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Post by radisb »

I use Chrome and pin the tabs I definitely dont want to lose but I cant read right now. They stay there forever and dont take space. If they start piling up and do take space, I am forced to take out some and keep the really useful ones. Those that survive this iterative process for a long time go into the bookmarks.

Re: Ask HN: Do you bookmark or collect content?

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

I don't bookmark in browser because I use lots of devices and don't want to be tied to one browser. If I find something I want to read, on whatever device, I send it to Pocket. If I want to keep it longterm, I star it and IFTTT sends it to an Evernote notebook for me. It works great for me, and if you want to know the one feature that would stop me ever swapping Pocket for your service, it'd be if you lacked IFTTT integration.

So really, I see the read-it-later service as the logical, device-agnostic development of bookmarks. That's not to say they can't be improved, but I don't have a suggestion offhand that hasn't been posted yet.

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