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Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by c_r_w »

Chrome, synced. 99.99% of my bookmark clicks goto the Bookmarks Bar.

Mostly I save bookmarks to close a tab, doubtful I will ever look at it again. Mostly those are for tech research.

I also use "open tabs on other devices" extensively.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by JanecekPetr »

Additionally to what everyone said already, I have two other uses:

1) I have a set of bookmarks specialized for search. Chrome can do this without bookmarks, but Firefox needs them. I'm talking about bookmarks like this: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&tbm=isch

Note the %s in the middle, that's where queries go. When you save this as a bookmark and add a keyword to it ("gg" in my case), you can then search images on Google like this:

- Alt-d (jump to url bar)

- gg fluffy kittens

I have a few dozen of these: Google, G images, G translate, G maps, local maps, Wikipedia English, Wikipedia Czech, various dictionaries, whois, wolfram alpha, grammar check, YouTube, Maven search... You get the idea.

2) A huge curated collection of bookmarks to Java libraries. Something similar to all those awesome-java collections that are lately popping up, but more complete, in my browser, indexed for search and neatly grouped into like a hundred folders.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by jdiscar »

kem wrote: post #102
bm98 wrote: post #88

I'm a little surprised that the majority of the answers here are Yes! I help my parents and my kids work with bookmarks but I have none myself; and I was beginning to think that bookmarks were primarily used by non-technical people. I guess I was wrong! Everything I need is a simple URL (like, my bank: usaa.com - why would I bookmark that?) or a quick Google search away. If I come across a deep link that's so importa…

I think this quote of yours summarizes why I still use bookmarks extensively: "If I come across a deep link that's so important that I want to keep it, I email myself the link along with maybe a short description, and it will be searchable forever." I have tons and tons of things that I probably could google/ddg search for, but were really difficult for me to find initially and that I know I would never find again. S…

I tried to solve this with my app Mochimarks, best used through the Chrome Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mochimarks-chrome-...

For "todo list", marking something as Read Later works perfectly. Lots of bookmarks app do this and it's most convenient to view them by creation date.

For reminders, Mochimarks lets you set explicit reminders on every bookmark or note. The notifications can be viewed in the app, show up through the extension, and are emailed to you. You can snooze the alerts too.

I have a concept to add a feature to track if something has changed on the site since the last time you visited, but it's not implemented.

Mochimarks has a rest api. It has lots of sorting options too (creation, last visited, total visits, interest, and reminders.) It's made bookmarks a lot more useful for me.

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