Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by moozeek » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 7:01 PM UTC

blaydator wrote: post #223

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

Thank you for making Boomerang. I use it all the time on my tablet and phone.

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

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Post by chaostheory » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 7:02 PM UTC

Yup, still using pinboard. It’s cheap and easy to use with no maintenance which imo is expensive

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

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Post by sundarurfriend » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 7:02 PM UTC

Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #63

I use Zotero for this now. I have a bunch of sub-collections (e.g. technical, interesting, fitness, etc.) and when I see a webpage I like I use the plug-in to save to Zotero. Better than a bookmark because it also saves a snapshot of the webpage, and, I can easily cite it if I'm writing a document. https://www.zotero.org/

Same. I don't even use the citation features of Zotero, it's purely a bookmark manager for me. I can choose whether to save the page with or without a snapshot, use both folders and tags for organization, add notes if I want to, and on supported sites (like Github), get an automatic bookmark summary too.

The interface took a bit of getting used to, but I learned some of the shortcuts, installed Zutilo [1], and ultimately just accepted the fact that I'll have to use the mouse for some things, as everything else about the program makes it worth it.

[1] https://github.com/wshanks/Zutilo

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

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Post by have_faith » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 7:03 PM UTC

I'd rather not use a 3rd party service. All I really need is the bookmarking UX already built into the browser but behind the scenes it captures the contents of the link (locally) and stores it against the bookmark. Bonus points if it asks where I want the bookmarks and their snapshots to be stored/synced to.

Does such a plugin exist?

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

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Post by santoshalper » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 7:05 PM UTC

rglullis wrote: post #75

benrapscallion wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a paying customer, I would not recommend pinboard. Just look at some recent discussions on HN. It has been abandonware for years now.

Is it failing for you? Would you switch to some other alternative?

Exactly, I hate the idea that software has to be constantly updated. That's how we end up with so many bloated messes that started out simple (cough dropbox cough). Pinboard is simple, and for my needs at least, perfect. If he kept it in maintenance mode forever, I'd be fine with that.

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

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Post by 5evOX5hTZ9mYa9E » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 7:08 PM UTC

I just create a note in my personal wiki/notes and leave it there with enough metadata that I can later find it. If it makes sense, I also take a snapshot via archive.is or ghostarchive.org if it makes sense (the website is not a web-app).

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

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Post by nix23 » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 7:08 PM UTC

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.

Yes works, you just need to use the proxy function of yacy, and everything get s indexed.

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

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Post by ibobev » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 7:09 PM UTC

For some types of bookmarks I started to use a GitHub repositories with a markdown document in them. Those are my bookmarks collected mainly through HN:

- A list of freely available articles, tutorials, book about programming, math and science: https://github.com/bobeff/programming-math-science

- A list of open source games: https://github.com/bobeff/open-source-games

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

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Post by Cryptoclidus » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 7:10 PM UTC

pinboard.in

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

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Post by lonelyasacloud » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 7:10 PM UTC

Yes. Have used for years and pay for https://www.diigo.com/ .

As a service it doesn't appear to be being actively developed, but it is reliable, isn't too fugly and has the required functionallity (multiplatform/browser/mobile support, good search, read later, tags, highlighting, sticky notes, private and public libraries and archiving for important stuff) in a reasonably easy to use form.

diigo's not perfect by any means - automated tagging suggestions could benefit from ML pixie dust - but certainly the best first stage of research and web page archiving solution I've found (compared to DevonThink, Pocket, Evernote, InstaPaper, A's Notes (and a few others I've forgotten))