I do.
I have my Chrome browsers in sync, categorised in folders.
I do also have "Read later" bookmarks, as I sometimes find interesting websites or news I cannot read entirely because I'm busy or whatever other reason.
Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#282I do bookmark them, but I end up almost not using it.
The only thing that actually kind of works for me is to bookmark stuff in "sessions" and then open the all tabs the next time I want to work on something. For instance I was trying something very specific involving deep learning at my job, then I had to do some actual work to prepare an article and I put that DL project aside. So, I make a bookmark folder with all the open tabs and closed the window. Now I got back to that DL experiment opened the all tabs again and that kind of worked for me. But this is not really a reference system, it's just a "sessions" system.
As for the traditional role of bookmarks, I don't think they will ever work for me without a single main thing: Full text search.
Every few months I try to clean the mess my bookmarks have become since I can't find what I need and a few months after everything is a mess again.
The tag or folder system simply just doesn't work for me, I keep too much stuff to check later as ideias and then I can't really find it because I have this folder "check later" where I have dozens of separate ideias and I can't really just find that one idea I had.
The solution seems to be some kind of full text search, where I can have a way to describe in a fuzzy way what I was doing, something like: "python, maps, names, germany" and go back to that post I remember where they where doing some analysis of the "last names of people in germany in different regions" and that I, of course, don't remember the name anymore.
I recon it's a very specific problem that only makes sense for people that think the same way like I do, but I'm also quite sure there are a lot of us like that and that this is the kind of solution that at least would help us a bit using the bookmark system.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#283Yes, but only for
- tabs I haven't read yet, but I need to restart my browser for some reason, and I want to be sure the tabs won't be lost ; in this case, those bookmarks are disposed of as soon as the browser restarted
- content I'm pretty sure I'll want to read back in a few time
I only use the bookmark bar, so I have to limit what I save. When it gets too big, I clean it up.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#284I use them in Chrome all the time, I have thousands — I basically search them as kind of a personal google... for those "Oh I remember reading an article about that once, let me find it"
Yeah, but how do you find that only from the title? Many times the title doesn't really represent what I remember about the article and that was in the corpus of the article.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#285Of course I do. Just checked everything and my bookmarks number just above 1000. The ones I use the most and websites I need in the immediate future are organized in the bookmarks toolbar (I'm using Firefox). Apart from that, they are put into separate folders regarding various topics as well as a list with "random" links which I can't put anywhere else.
They are useful to me in the sense that I don't need to remember all those 1000+ links as well as it being the fastest way to access a website (it's faster than typing).
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#286I don't use browser bookmarks but I do use bookmarks through pinboard.in: https://pinboard.in/u:jcrites With a paid feature called an archival account, Pinboard stores an actual copy of each bookmarked article, kind of like your own private Wayback Machine. It provides full text search over these articles. I frequently save articles that I read so that I can refer to them later. It doesn't happen often, but once in a…
Nice set of pinboard bookmarks :)
I only have two Firefox bookmarks really.
1. Tag something as to-read in my pinboard (i.e. keeps them private by default) [0]:
javascript:q=location.href;p=document.title;void(t=open('https://pinboard.in/add?later=yes&noui=yes&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(q)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(p)+'&tags='+encodeURIComponent("%s"),'Pinboard','toolbar=no,width=100,height=100'));t.blur();
pi tag1 tag2
The other one was a brief exchange with Eric Meyer about a quick way to search from your address bar on the wayback machine [1]:
https://web.archive.org/web/*/%S
w example.com
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#287No. Autocomplete in the URL field only.
I never save anything for later, I either read it or forget it. I only regularly visit a few dozen sites, so usually the site is completed in the URL field after 1 character (such as "n" to load HN).
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#288Personally, I've stopped bookmarking everything I find somewhat interesting. Now if I do find something and it will be used in the next week/month, it's often part of an existing project or idea, and so it gets thrown in a text file that's versioned. I started doing this after accumulating a huge index of bookmarks spread across saved.io, Evernote, Google Bookmarks, iCloud, Firefox, Opera, txt files, Google Spaces an…
Yes, I quite realise that with my bookmarks its the equivalent of on-line hoarding. I keep all of mine in pinboard though so it's fairly well organised hoarding.
I was using delicious up from 2004 - 2014. I just realised I never actually closed my account there. Think I'd better close it to keep the hoarding to a minumum.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#289I've still got 100s of bookmarks from the late 90s, still in their original sub-folders. Most are dead now, which is a shame.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#290Not anymore.
Just google everything when I need to find something. In the past I was using bookmarks to track blogs I follow but these days there is too much content. I just google/HN search stuff when I need to find something. I tried going back to bookmarking stuff/save for later but I just never got time to go back to the them.