Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by emodendroket » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 1:08 PM UTC

ekianjo wrote: post #337

Houshalter wrote: post #76

Of course, and I'm surprised many people don't. Chrome handles bookmarks well, automatically syncing them between different machines you are signed in on. I used to have them nicely organized into different folders but now it's a bit of a mess... It's especially useful to deal with tab explosion. Control+D and you can just save all your tabs in a single folder (and never look at them again.) The biggest problem is li…

> The biggest problem is linkrot. I am not using such service, but isn't there a way (i.e. addon) to generate a copy of the page you bookmarked in order to remedy to that kind of issue ?

Evernote clipping a page rather than just bookmarking it would work if it's static content.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by hashhar » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 1:11 PM UTC

pmoriarty wrote: post #161

hashhar wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What would you like to seem improved in the bookmark manager? I'm currently working on the ability to rename the bookmarks inline in the tree instead of the input boxes on bottom in the Bookmark Manager (the one you get from Ctrl+Shift+B or Ctrl+Shift+O).

Searching tags, bookmarks, and bookmark comments by regular expressions would be awesome. It would be nice if I could, say, rename a tag. So, for example, if I had a tag named "map", I'd like to be able to rename it to "maps" and have all bookmarks with that tag updated. Same with deleting a tag from all the bookmarks that have it. I'd like to be able to: - see a list of all my tags, in various sort orders, and be ab…

Thanks a lot for the information.

Could you elaborate a little on that last point of yours? What will the markup be used for? Displaying the information when browsing bookmarks?

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by taklya » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 1:14 PM UTC

I do use bookmarks but now I use Refind which allows me to store the bookmarks with tags and socially.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by nicky0 » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 1:15 PM UTC

I use bookmarks for mundane services I use semi-regularly: online banking, government services, electric, gas, water company, insurance company and so on.

Also admin stuff like webhost control panel, bugtracker, iTunes Connect etc.

Arranged in favourites bar in folders by category.

Saved articles go in pinboard.in however.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by gcr » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 1:19 PM UTC

Sort of.

I use Safari's reading list extensively.

I also keep snippets of things I want to keep inside my emacs org-mode folder so it's instantly accessible.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by abrkn » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 1:21 PM UTC

I have hundreds of them in Chrome, ported over from all kinds of browsers and services over the year. I never use them. They just sit in the bookmarks toolbar and annoy me.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by falcolas » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 1:23 PM UTC

Houshalter wrote: post #164

falcolas wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's part of that script you're talking about: wget --recursive --level=5 --convert-links --page-requisites --wait=1 --random-wait --timestamping --no-parent $1 Combine with something to parse out the Chrome bookmarks (it's XML, IIRC), and it wouldn't take too long to nail down.

Chrome has the option to export all bookmarks to an html file, which I think can be given as an input to wget. Now if I understand that correctly, won't it recursively download every web page and all it's links 5 levels deep? Because that could be quite enormous if there are just a few web pages with lots of links...

It won't traverse across domains without an explicit argument, so it won't go too crazy. It also won't backtrack, so you won't end up with a complete copy of a blog if you've only bookmarked a single article. You can, of course, reduce the maxdepth to 1 pretty safely, if you don't think you'll need more than the specific bookmarked page.

I use that for programming language documentation - for example I'll hit the root page of Python's standard library documentation, and get everything I need locally.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by hashhar » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 1:32 PM UTC

wrycoder wrote: post #172

hashhar wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What would you like to seem improved in the bookmark manager? I'm currently working on the ability to rename the bookmarks inline in the tree instead of the input boxes on bottom in the Bookmark Manager (the one you get from Ctrl+Shift+B or Ctrl+Shift+O).

I would very much like to know the folder chain holding the bookmark. I can search for it, but I still can't find it. At least give me the parent folder.

Cool. That's something different and useful. Thanks for the feedback.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by wakkaflokka » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 1:35 PM UTC

On this topic, does anybody have a good recommendation for a Google Chrome-Pinboard bookmark real-time bookmark sync service/extension?

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by wazoox » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 1:41 PM UTC

I use the same set of bookmarks in Firefox migrating and evolving since 1997 and Netscape 1.0 on IRIX. Some are surprisingly durables. In any case even with URL rot they are useful as reminders of pages I want to keep as references.