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

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Post by tclancy »

pratyushmittal wrote: post #119

I (still) use Pinboard: https://pinboard.in/u:pratyush Reasons: 1. Archives - those tutorials and guides stay when the original pages go 404 2. API - I use the api to automatically post my bookmarks to my blog 3. Full-text search: this is very very useful when needed 4. Social Discovery: Search that niche website / app on Pinboard. It shows lots of other people who found that same thing as interesting. We can then fo…

Same. Having imported my delicious bookmarks dating back to 2005 or so, I have a fairly large set of links that I try to tag consistently. I don't actually read a ton of them, but being able to full-text search or filter by combining tags makes it really useful for digging up things I barely remember coming across.

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Post by blaydator »

pomatic wrote: post #94

My incredibly unsophisticated, but surprisingly effective approach, is to share by email with myself (e.g. mail to myname+bookmark@mydomain.com). Mail rules can then file them, I can add any relevant notes or hashtags to the mail body at the time I share the link, and the chronological ordering is helpful. Imap search is usually 'good enough' to turn up a half-remembered link or article. I have been meaning to add an…

Email rocks for this. I have developed an app to email myself in one click : https://boomerang-app.io

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Post by _ank_it »

jamisonbryant wrote: post #220

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.

What do you use for permanent links? Manual maintenance?

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Post by chrisan »

twblalock wrote: post #171

I've pretty much stopped using bookmarks. I used to have a large amount of bookmarks, carefully sorted into folders. I didn't use most of them on a regular basis, and the links broke over time. The end result was a bunch of broken bookmarks. The combination of autocomplete, history, and web searches seems good enough to find anything I want.

Ya, the only bookmarks I use these days are the ones in Firefox's bookmark toolbar which are more there for quick access purposes than saving interesting articles

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Post by themadturk »

Overtonwindow wrote: post #45

My bookmarks have not changed in a long time. I use the same bookmarks. I never really use the service, because I never really use bookmarks all that much, I’ll just Google something. I found the bookmarks get on wielding and I start losing track of them and I start having lists of bookmarks that are 9 years old. Rather than bookmarks I use Pocket. It’s been very helpful especially for articles and technical websites…

I'm also a heavy Pocket user, though a few things I clip into OneNote.

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Post by devracca »

jamisonbryant wrote: post #220

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.

I have a similar setup (I use raindrop.io) for temp links. I am meaning to find better organization ways for my permanent links. Curious to know details about your setup

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

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Post by hbarka »

pmoriarty wrote: post #215
jrochkind1 wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This. I wonder if there is a way to direct my searches first to the domains I have ever visited. Oftentimes I will search for something that I am sure I’ve hit before but can vaguely remember which result set it was that scored my search.

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

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Post by teepo »

I use an org mode capture template and a couple browser extensions. Dead simple for bookmarks and surfacing the context inside Emacs. - I have two use cases: 1. a simple bookmark I want to revisit (maybe) and 2. A bookmark with an excerpt from the page. I can copy in the material I want to capture all withe the same process.
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