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Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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I used to use pinboard[1] but since I started dicking around with self hosting I use Wallabag[2] for “read it later” articles and linkding [0] for saving links that I want to refer to later. Linkding is pretty much a self hosted pinboard [0] https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding [1] http://pinboard.in/ [2] https://www.wallabag.it/en

Wallabag is pretty great, the chrome extension is nice too.

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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I switched from pinboard.in / del.icio.us (the social aspect was becoming less and less important) to a workflow based on braintool ( https://braintool.org/ ) and org-mode TODO and tags, it completely changed the way I work with bookmarks now.

Hey this is great to hear @ews (BrainTool dev here). FWIW WRT this conversation, my long term hope for BrainTool is to generate a thriving ecosystem of shared curated topic trees, each one a little summary of a corner of the internet.

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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I (still) use Pinboard: https://pinboard.in/u:pratyush Reasons: 1. Archives - those tutorials and guides stay when the original pages go 404 2. API - I use the api to automatically post my bookmarks to my blog 3. Full-text search: this is very very useful when needed 4. Social Discovery: Search that niche website / app on Pinboard. It shows lots of other people who found that same thing as interesting. We can then fo…

Pinboard is phenomenal. I used to keep all my links in Simplenote but Pinboard is far superior for a number of the reasons listed here already. I may only search through it for something once a week but I find I tag things much more thoroughly in Pinboard than anything else I've used.

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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I (still) use Pinboard: https://pinboard.in/u:pratyush Reasons: 1. Archives - those tutorials and guides stay when the original pages go 404 2. API - I use the api to automatically post my bookmarks to my blog 3. Full-text search: this is very very useful when needed 4. Social Discovery: Search that niche website / app on Pinboard. It shows lots of other people who found that same thing as interesting. We can then fo…

I use the API to send myself a daily email with a combination of random and anniversary bookmarks: https://github.com/klenwell/pinprick I find it a good way to keep in touch with past bookmarks and do some light maintenance.

Maciej has a 'random' bookmarklet you can drag to your browser toolbar. See https://pinboard.in/howto/

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably busy tweeting

His last tweet is from December, declaring he’d spend a year off Twitter. He’s made it halfway so far!

he needed a year off twitter. he was fun to follow for a while, but it was sad to watch the tweets turn so angry and defensive.

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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I use Pinboard, like many others here. The other thing I do is use that API to write new entries from time to time, to my own local DB, in case the author gets hit by a bus (as he's joked about). I haven't written a front end to do much _with_ my local copy, but figure that's a problem I can deal with when I need to.

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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I use Raindrop.io and have it hooked up to NewsBlur and ArchiveBox as secondary backups [1]. This way whenever something is bookmarked it's saved in Newsblur and published to Dropbox, which ArchiveBox picks up every hour and saves a local copy and to archive.org. 1. https://www.ecliptik.com/bookmarking-with-raindrop/

+1 for Raindrop.io, it works very well.
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