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Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by pqs »

coastflow wrote: post #110

I use Evernote. It's the last "killer feature" of the platform. The software is too slow and clunky for taking notes (OneNote or Apple's stock Notes app are far better for this), even after the somewhat-recent update that improved performance, but it succeeds at saving webpages where other services fail. I tried to switch to OneNote's web clipper, but too often it could only save a link instead of clipping the page.…

On my 4 year old Windows 10 ThinkPad laptop it now works very fast. I have 20k notes. At the beginning it was very clunky, now it works very well. At least this is my experience.

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by pqs »

RandomWorker wrote: post #168
coastflow wrote: post #110

I use Evernote. It's the last "killer feature" of the platform. The software is too slow and clunky for taking notes (OneNote or Apple's stock Notes app are far better for this), even after the somewhat-recent update that improved performance, but it succeeds at saving webpages where other services fail. I tried to switch to OneNote's web clipper, but too often it could only save a link instead of clipping the page.…

Totally agree, application is weak. Don't understand the new listing and task management features. It just seems like a distraction.. why not have a proper table editor before you start adding new features. Also, the time to startup should be much shorter. I suggest they make a simple version of the tool, just list on the left (simplify the notebooks, and tags, etc). Get rid of the homepage. However, I just can't lea…

Tasks might seem a distraction to you but they have simplified my life a lot. They are central to my workflow and I'm glad they introduced them.

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by imiric »

dewey wrote: post #32

I realized that I never go back to my bookmarks and if I really wanted to find something again I usually am able to. I came to the same realization with hoarding movies / tv shows.

As a counterpoint, I don't go to my bookmarks often, but when I do, it's invaluable, and I'd feel lost without them.

Especially with tags, I can quickly find a number of things I find/found interesting just by using one or two tags.

I agree about hoarding media, though. But I still like to have metadata on content I want to watch, and content I've watched and what I thought about it.

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by pmoriarty »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #112
l72 wrote: post #27

I have started doing something completely different than using bookmarks. I set up yacy[1] on a personal, internal server at my home, which I can access from all my devices, since they are always on my wireguard vpn. Yacy is actually a distributed search engine, but I run in 'Robinson mode' as a private peer, to keep it isolated, as I just want a personal search of only sites I have indexed. Anytime I come across som…

Nice! How about getting it to automatically index your whole search history? Not what you're going for -- you don't have a list of specifically opted-in 'bookmarks' to browse. but I have often wanted "wait, what was that site involving X I was looking at maybe last week?"

It would also be nice to be able to search through my aggregated browsing history on every device I use.

Maybe I should open a feature request to Google/Fracebook to provide an API hook for that, since they probably already have all that information anyway.

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by doubled112 »

danesparza wrote: post #203
miiiiiike wrote: post #179

I use Google Keep. It's amazing. It's one of those side tabs on GMail that you close when you first start a new account and never look at again. I use the web and iOS version (through "share") half a dozen times a day. https://keep.google.com/

You just wait. You're going to get hooked. Then Google is going to take it away. I used Google Reader daily until Google taketh away. I'm not bitter, or anything.

Miniflux is pretty good though.

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by blaydator »

I will self promote as it’s one of the main use cases of Boomerang. It’s a minimal mail to self app for iOS and Android with share extension to bookmark website in one click. Emails are super convenient because you consult them everyday so your links doesn’t get lost in an app.

https://boomerang-app.io

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by jamisonbryant »

For temporary or read-later items, I have a Todoist project called "Links to Read" and I use the Todoist browser extension to send the page to that project.

For more permanent links, I maintain quite an extensive collection of bookmarks, all neatly organized by subject area and utility.

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