I created a section on my website for shower thoughts and link reminders.
I'm building it as I go and as I require new features. So far it's a title/desc+tags that I can search and filter. I'm planning to add a random reminder every day and some sort of "check back in X months/years if what I predict happen to be true".
I can't remember the name of the addon I had to create bookmarks in the 2000's with tags rather than folder and but it was the best organization tool I ever had (as a very disorganized person), trying to recreate what I remember from it.
Ask HN: How do you save and browse external interesting URLs?
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#32Browser bookmarks with Netscape Bookmarks format (yuck!) for transferring between browsers when I access stuff regularly and don't want to discover it through the search engine every time. Self-hosted shortener service when I need to access URLs from any device in any location. So called "url files" which browser opens for me with every URL in a separate tab when there is temporary high volume inflow of URLs, e.g. researching a purchase, rental, or travel.
Re: Ask HN: How do you save and browse external interesting URLs?
#33I created a section on my website for shower thoughts and link reminders. I'm building it as I go and as I require new features. So far it's a title/desc+tags that I can search and filter. I'm planning to add a random reminder every day and some sort of "check back in X months/years if what I predict happen to be true". I can't remember the name of the addon I had to create bookmarks in the 2000's with tags rather th…
Oh and I'm also working on an extension to quick add links, with an AI summary on what's on the page + tagging. But that far off in the future!
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#34I keep everything in Evernote. The clipper is so good that I only have to clip the part of the page I care about, whether it's comments or pictures or whole article. It has fantastic search function with OCR.
I have about 5,000 notes in Evernote. I haven't found a good alternative so far.
Re: Ask HN: How do you save and browse external interesting URLs?
#35I use Pocket[1] for this. There’s a browser extension and an iOS app; both are optimized for saving quickly. Later, I tag each item for easier search.
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#36I have a browser bookmark script that saves it to an Airtable table. Works like a charm, and I've saved almost 10k links in the last four years I've been using it!
I occasionally go back and search for a specific link from months to years ago (since I have a terrible memory), and it works great. I also built a custom Pocket-like interface which works great too!
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#37I save everything I consider useful as an MHTML file (HTML/CSS/images in one file), which is native to Chromium browsers. This has the benefit of the page not being split into separate files as the normal save page does, doesn't break when the file is renamed like the normal save page does (on Windows at least), removes the need for bookmarks which go dead over time, preserves the original source URL in the file for…
MHTML looks interesting. Avoiding "Save as" into multiple files, I've been capturing the websites as screenshots to preserve the layout and printing as PDFs to preserve the content, and honestly it works so-so...
Re: Ask HN: How do you save and browse external interesting URLs?
#38I use Pocket[1] for this. There’s a browser extension and an iOS app; both are optimized for saving quickly. Later, I tag each item for easier search. [1] https://getpocket.com/en/
Do you use paid version? I considered buying it but then read some reviews that their search in paid version isn't that good.
Re: Ask HN: How do you save and browse external interesting URLs?
#39I save everything I consider useful as an MHTML file (HTML/CSS/images in one file), which is native to Chromium browsers. This has the benefit of the page not being split into separate files as the normal save page does, doesn't break when the file is renamed like the normal save page does (on Windows at least), removes the need for bookmarks which go dead over time, preserves the original source URL in the file for…
I want this but done automatically (save every webpage I spend more than 10 seconds in) and also work on my phone. Which is impossible I suppose.
There are some 'save everything' programs/extensions I seen mentioned in the past (and in this topic) but have wondered how users deal with the signal-to-noise ratio, later filtering for desired content, or whether the users find the storage requirements are worth it.
Often when searching for a specific thing, be it technical queries, useful reviews, troubleshooting, etc, it can take many, many searches and looking through pages before finding something worthwhile, at which point I'll save it (and name it with keywords for future me) since the effort required to even find it is not worth repeating. I'm not sure how such save everything utilities would make that part easier when I wish to return to the relevant page in the future (ie: finding the relevant page, among all the pages that aren't relevant when they share so many similar internal keywords).
Re: Ask HN: How do you save and browse external interesting URLs?
#40This is basically what tools like roam and obsidian are for.
When you want to capture a link, make a new note and link the external page. Write down any tags or thoughts so it is searchable. It’s basically my second brain and hugely helpful.