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

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Post by kamray23 »

prepend wrote: post #315
mttjj wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is Mac only and I have no affiliation other than I like this developer but your request reminded me that he just launched this app: https://andadinosaur.com/launch-history-book

That’s a really genius idea. I also like the author’s pricing mode. I was fearing some stupid “$10 is just the price of coffee. This is worth 24 coffees a year for the rest of your life” and have a reasonable $7 purchase price.

that's some expensive ass coffee considering i buy a bag for less than that and use it for a week or two, making tens of cups

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

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Post by deamanto »

rsolva wrote: post #52

I have tried many different solutions the last two decades, but none of of them really stuck or became useful over time. I kinda gave up and as a last ditch effort started to do the simplest thing I could think of: ctrl+D to add bookmarks in Firefox, jotting down a few keywords on each entry. No folders, no structure, just a flat list and some keywords. A few months in I noticed how powerful this simple system was. W…

Yep and also doing a ctrl+b you can search your bookmarks from the sidebar too

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

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Post by dificilis »

Overtonwindow wrote: post #45

My bookmarks have not changed in a long time. I use the same bookmarks. I never really use the service, because I never really use bookmarks all that much, I’ll just Google something. I found the bookmarks get on wielding and I start losing track of them and I start having lists of bookmarks that are 9 years old. Rather than bookmarks I use Pocket. It’s been very helpful especially for articles and technical websites…

I tried Pocket, but it wouldn't let me edit titles, which was a bit of a deal-killer. So then I tried Raindrop (free plan), and I have been using that ever since.

I use "collections" to describe abstract properties of a bookmark, like "work" for work-related, "reference" for 'I have read it but I might want to refer to it later'. Then I use tags for identifying topic - but a lot of the time there's enough info in the title, and tags don't really add much for the effort involved.

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Post by blakewatson »

pratyushmittal wrote: post #119

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’ve been a Pinboard customer since 2010 and I subscribed to the archival service several years. But archival seems to have stopped on my account. I think I emailed once but never received a reply (which I’ve heard is common). I love the philosophy of Pinboard and I also like Maciej. That said I recently decided to roll my own bookmarks tool with Wayback Machine archival capability.

https://github.com/blakewatson/bookmarks

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

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Post by onassar »

Will use this as an opportunity to share something I built called Bookee: https://onassar.github.io/extensions/bookee/

It's a Chrome Extension that let's me quickly search through my Chrome Bookmarks. It's got plenty of hotkeys, and I use it 20+ times a day.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/NxHfxQC.jpg

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Post by eibhinn »

Kinda/sorta. I use https://dynalist.io as my outliner. And it has browser clipper plugins that in their simplest use snapshot the title/url of the page you're on. So I often clip urls into there.

But it as a tool is much broader. I use it as my GTD inbox, and for task management, and other notes. The fact that I can simply search for pages that I've clipped (including adding #tags to them, or grouping them) is a lovely subset of what I use it for.

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

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Post by jhot »

bhub wrote: post #170

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

Linkding is my current favorite self-hosted solution in this genre. Used Pocket for a long time but like the tagging and minimal looks of linkding better.

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

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Post by throwoutway »

Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #296
TheCowboy wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you or anyone else have thoughts on if Zotero would be too much for someone who doesn't need to write papers or cite documents? A large component of my day-to-day work is doing a lot of research and managing it for the duration of the project.

I highly recommend it, even for this use case. It takes a bit to get used to in how it works and setting so that it works well for your given workflow. For example, I'm a latex user so I had to add extensions to zotero so it can output to bibtex. But again, it wasn't that bad. Once its set up and you used it a few times, it easy and super useful. I use it not only for web bookmarks, but as my main 'library' for all m…

Do you use the browser extension at all?

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

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Post by MattieTK »

I dropped pinboard.in recently. The interface hasn't had improvements in years, the extensions are all third party, and the API if you wanted to build your own is pretty limiting. The mobile interface is pretty poor too.

I'm now moved over the Raindrop.io[1], which is another solo-developer outfit, but has had a lot of work put into it. It does all the same stuff Pinboard does (including page archiving but beside the social and public directory things... which nobody uses), but has a bunch of additional features. It has a much more complete API, a well maintained extension, and mobile apps! Definitely worth giving a go.

[1]: https://raindrop.io/

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