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Re: Ask HN: Do you curate links/bookmarks?

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Post by karlicoss »

rsapkf wrote: post #24

I use Firefox Developer Edition as my primary browser and Firefox Sync to store and sync bookmarks across devices. I have made 95%(2000+) of my bookmarks public on GitHub[0]. I have categorized them and host them on a public repository(110+ forks, ~1800 stars) and push every week. I have also made the entire repo available as a GitBook with search and export as PDF functionality. [0] https://github.com/rsapkf/goodies

Looks cool!

Search (especially incremental) is very important, there's no way I'm going to read through someone else's 2000+ bookmarks, whereas searching for topics that interest me is feasible.

Wondering why you publish both gitbook and mdbook? I was planning to use mdbook to release my bookmarks to public; gitbook development has stalled as far as I understand.

Re: Ask HN: Do you curate links/bookmarks?

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Post by joshuahughes »

I've tried dozens of services through the years and have always come away disappointed. I literally just want to store a URL and the page title — just text will do. I don't want an overwhelming visual list of my bookmarks. I don't want the page content scraped and stored. I don't need to share my bookmarks (other than syncing across devices). I would like some easy way to flag and clean up old 404-ing bookmarks. Simple categorisation or tagging. And a simple one-click add-to-inbox plugin that'd work on all my browsers including on iOS. And I'd like a good-looking UI — not an ugly mess like Pinboard. And of course there should be a solid export interface so that users aren't locked into some proprietary data structure.

As a product designer I'd love to sink my teeth into this problem but unfortunately it's a dev-heavy project and that's outside my comfort-zone.

For now I'm sticking with my fallback solution — dozens of 'link dump' notes in the Mac Notes app. It's searchable, lightweight, and flexible but a nightmare to manage. There must be something better out there.

Re: Ask HN: Do you curate links/bookmarks?

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Post by m-p-3 »

I do curate my bookmarks, in the sense that I'm renaming them (the website title is sometimes way too long and bloated, and I put tags on them to find them where I believe they might be relevant (ex: note-taking, selfhosted, e2ee)

If the website contains an important bit of info, I try to send the page to the Wayback Machine so that it's not lost to time when the website eventually dies, and I also copy that info in my notes (currently using Joplin)

Re: Ask HN: Do you curate links/bookmarks?

#35

Post by mrzool »

joshuahughes wrote: post #32

I've tried dozens of services through the years and have always come away disappointed. I literally just want to store a URL and the page title — just text will do. I don't want an overwhelming visual list of my bookmarks. I don't want the page content scraped and stored. I don't need to share my bookmarks (other than syncing across devices). I would like some easy way to flag and clean up old 404-ing bookmarks. Simp…

> And I'd like a good-looking UI — not an ugly mess like Pinboard.

I’ve been using Pinboard for the last 10 years or so and I’m super happy with it. Love the speed, the text-heavy interface and the high information density. I love that it never changes. I use a separate app my phone (the website is unusable on mobile) and it works great. I don’t need anything more.

Re: Ask HN: Do you curate links/bookmarks?

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Post by abhishekjha »

I have written a service where I store link, timestamp and addendum where I can explain why I went to that link, and a counter for "if this link already exists in the database" then increment. I save links when I have too many tabs open so as to close them. This gives me a way to query on those links at a later point of time in mysql command line. It has worked well so far.

Re: Ask HN: Do you curate links/bookmarks?

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Post by rsapkf »

karlicoss wrote: post #31
rsapkf wrote: post #24

I use Firefox Developer Edition as my primary browser and Firefox Sync to store and sync bookmarks across devices. I have made 95%(2000+) of my bookmarks public on GitHub[0]. I have categorized them and host them on a public repository(110+ forks, ~1800 stars) and push every week. I have also made the entire repo available as a GitBook with search and export as PDF functionality. [0] https://github.com/rsapkf/goodies

Looks cool! Search (especially incremental) is very important, there's no way I'm going to read through someone else's 2000+ bookmarks, whereas searching for topics that interest me is feasible. Wondering why you publish both gitbook and mdbook? I was planning to use mdbook to release my bookmarks to public; gitbook development has stalled as far as I understand.

I am learning Rust at the moment. I used to use that repo to try new things out. For example, to play with GitHub's API(the github-gitlab-stars.md file was created using a bunch of Python scripts, requests library), or learning branching and pipelines(Currently I am using Travis CI to build mdbook from another branch), etc. Initially, when I didn't know about GitBook or Static Site Generators, I made a Django App with search functionality and stuff out of those links.

Re: Ask HN: Do you curate links/bookmarks?

#40

Post by memset »

I built a tool to let me do this: https://www.homepagr.com

It is intended to replace the “new tab” page of the browser and works really well!

When I first “launched” it had a minimal set of features and scratched my own itch. I wanted to charge $12/year. However, I discovered that nobody even wanted to pay $1 per month!

I’ve since created designs for a new UX, which is what you see in the screenshots, and put up a landing page. All out of the startup playbook. However, nobody has expressed an interest in the product, so I haven’t opened up access for others.

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