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This means on the off chance that I get some time to go thru the backlog, I can tackle a single month and still feel like I made progress.
My problem with bookmarks isn't managing them, but remembering that they exist. It always seems faster to type words into google than to try to remember whatever taxonomy or tagging scheme. And I never go back to check for "something cool on the internet" at all. I made an app that shows me N of my previous bookmarks per day at random, loosely following spaced repetition. Seeing the same articles/conversations/tutori…
Same here. Bookmarks basically became obsolete once search got good enough.
Edit: Reddit is a possible example of the above, but what I meant is an automatic curation of search to niche ness or specificity of people.
Bookmark Folder : Description
Files : Browser based files I want easy access to. These are generally static pages or anything I do data entry into (google drive docs, flowcharts). Things I could feasibly download a copy of.
Reports : Dynamic pages that let me get a measurement on something
HowTo : I often google how to do something, and when i find a result that i actually use it goes in here
Tools : Web tools, like JSON pretty print. These are pages that provide an automatic service of some kind (i.e input / output processes)
Index : Informational Directories. Examples include Code of federal regulations, RFC pages, interesting / useful wiki articles, cheat sheets, comprehensive guides that go beyond "howto", repositories, etc
Reading : Blog posts, case studies, technical writings, articles, things meant to be part of a conversation or a showcase
Communities : Social home pages that are mostly already bookedmarked into my finger tips like HN, reddit, stack overflow, facebook, etc
Learning : Items that still need to be 'digested'. Stuff from here is often moved to other folders after I am done with it.
Misc : (a word i only like to use once, if at all, in organizing). Basically, if all i do is take a glance at something and want to come back to it later - it goes in here
Each of these main folders denote mutually exclusive types of content (imo). Within each of these folders I create subfolders as needed to group things together by topic.
Add-ons
Additionally, I use a tab manager add-on. Currently I use "Cluster" for google chrome but I am looking into switching to TabXpert. When multiple sets of pages form a cohesive context, I save that context as a collection of tabs. For example, if I am working on an analytics project I may have various HowTo's, documentation, files, and Learning tabs open that are all related to my project. I save that window, and then instead of digging through ALL my book marks I can keep a running session of relevant pages. Some of which I know are only relevant for the project and do not need to be bookmarked.
When I start a new project, I collect relevant pages from my existing bookmarks into a new context.
Check out my https://histre.com/ The main reason behind my building Histre is the idea that we throw away a lot of the signal we generate while doing things online and this can be put to good use for ourselves. Bookmark management is just a special case of knowledge management. What you really need is a knowledge management tool that is easy to use. You'll get a ton of other benefits too. As it is right now, Histre a…
There are 3 types of bookmarks: 1) Read-later Something interesting you want to read. Items in this category should be automatically removed after a certain period of time, so it doesn't get out of hand. New RSS feed items would also fit into this category. 2) Save-for-later Something you're sure will be useful down the road. This should be retrieved first and foremost using a powerful full-text search engine. Minima…
I also favorite YC items.
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Digital content being so easy to produce and often of such poor quality is the best reason to use bookmarks. Trying to get back to the same tutorial I liked is impossible when searching “react firebase authentication” shows a hundred new poor quality articles being written every day. If I see a couple that might be promising I’ll throw them into my bookmarks to go through later. Because most of them might be trash bu…
Yes, in the past the web was able to self curate. People were creating links to stuff they found valuable. Google amplified these signals. These days it is too easy to copy-paste stuff and creating meaningless content is valued over referencing reference material. Google search quality went down. What we need is a way to get Google and other search engines to index our bookmarks to figure out what people value.
If you're willing to tag things so you can find them later, then https://pinboard.in If you're not then don't store them, just google them when you need them. That will either help you find the link you wanted, or it will find you something better, because the world has moved on since then.
I second the Pinboard suggestion. By paying the relatively inexpensive yearly fee, you get full text archives too which is great in the fight against link rot.
the whole point of bookmarks is to be able to retrieve the info later. that archive has helped me SO many times.
If you're willing to tag things so you can find them later, then https://pinboard.in If you're not then don't store them, just google them when you need them. That will either help you find the link you wanted, or it will find you something better, because the world has moved on since then.
How does Pinboard compare with Pocket? Pocket appears to be integrated into Firefox.
it doesn't suggest links to you and the visual style is very different.
It's run by a single developer who responds quickly to feedback.
IMNSHO it's worth every penny.
Check out my https://histre.com/ The main reason behind my building Histre is the idea that we throw away a lot of the signal we generate while doing things online and this can be put to good use for ourselves. Bookmark management is just a special case of knowledge management. What you really need is a knowledge management tool that is easy to use. You'll get a ton of other benefits too. As it is right now, Histre a…
Can content from Histre be exported and easily digestible into a home brew solution or is the user dependent on maintaining* an account with Histre in order to not lose what they've put into it?
I keep it extremely slim and only add if I'm going to it a lot. If I find something cool, I generally email it to myself or put it in a draft email full of links with topics next to it.