Shaarli + Wallabag. So no.
I usually try to tag my bookmarks but it rarely happens.
Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#242nope, but I use things like top-sites and Opera's startpage
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Everything I need is a simple URL (like, my bank: usaa.com - why would I bookmark that?) or a quick Google search away. I can't google NDAed documentation or forum threads. I can't google stuff that's useful to a topic, but that I've forgotten about. Webcomics often have terrible search indexes - and even navigation - so I'll bookmark my place when archive binging exactly as I'd use a physical bookmark. I bookmark-…
> I can't google NDAed documentation or forum threads. You should keep a full local copy of that sort of thing anyway, the original might disappear.
All the local archiving in the world won't help me download new SDKs, find updated documentation, new changelogs, see active replies to ongoing queries, maintain our own NDAed documentation, ...
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#244Earlier quoted context omitted.
Chrome has a flag in chrome:\\flags to enable partial matches.
What's it called exactly? I can't find it.
Sorry I was thinking of autofill suggestions:
"Substring matching for Autofill suggestions" chrome://flags/#enable-suggestions-with-substring-match
For the address bar it already does substring for me pretty well so I can't comment on that, sorry about that.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#245No, I just save links as plain text in my Evernote. This means I can add comments and other meta data very easily and I have everything stored in one place without having to rely on the browser.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#246I have something very simple, A folder called FFR = For Future Reference, where I'll keep the most interesting stuff. Trusting Trust (and Overcoming Trusting Trust), Windows' NSA_KEY, and the like. Most are in the folder with no further hierarchy, but some are categorized into Security, DIY, UI/UX, Gift Ideas, etc.
I also have bookmarks at the root level for things that I will Definitely See Tomorrow™, which I never erase, because hey, They could be important.
Since it's the weekend, have this extremely educational video about languages https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#247Yes, I use them a lot, but find the organizing tools pretty lacking. E.g. I program in Python and keep a bookmark for many Python modules in alphabetic subfolders so that I can quickly jump to the docs. It's rather boring to maintain this setup. I also dance tango and I'd love to bookmark many Youtube videos but here the tools are really primitive: there's lots of ways to organize this (by type of video, dance style, by principal figures, by dancers -- sometimes more than one couple -- by music maybe) and no easy way to do anything other than a silo of "all things tango".
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#248the thing that always bugs me is how to use bookmarks when working with multiple browsers. the various bookmark service platforms never fully scratched the one itch i was feeling => simply save a bookmark and let me add some tags to it. right now the only browser based bookmark i'm having is a bookmarklet that takes me to my own bookmark store ( see https://github.com/grafoo/webdmp if you're interested.)
Have you tried pinboard? I loved delicious back in the day (when it had an impossible-to-remember chain of subdomains!) and pinboard gets as close to replicating that functionality as I've found. I'm still planning on writing my own client to resolve a few minor issues, but the api looks solid too.
delicious was awesome, very sad story that it didn't work out for them. right now i'm pretty happy with my self baked solution, though reading pinboards about features it sounds interesting. thanks for the recommendation.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#249I'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 have 14,183 threads in my work email inbox and I do not file emails into folders like most of my colleagues. I do not have the desire or the time to manage email folders.
This. I am not sure if my brain is wired differently or my use case for emails is somehow different to other people, but given all the search capabilities of the email clients (gmail & outlook) I have used during the last few years, I find it difficult to find less productive ways to use my work time than managing emails (either thinking whether an email should be deleted or moved to some folder).
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#250Additionally 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…
instead of making your own specialized bookmarks, DuckDuckGo has bangs https://duckduckgo.com/bang