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

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Post by Globz »

Yes I still do, at this moment I have 3413 bookmarks across different folders, coding, work, recipes, Gaming, etc.

I am currently running Bookmark Checker (chrome extension) and did set the parameters to "error connect" and at this very moment it is reporting : "Bookmark check status: Total bookmarks : 2238 of 3413 error connect: 2117"

so many dead links :(

I did not know about pinboard and I am really tempted to give it a try so I can do a full html archive without the fear of losing again 2000+ bookmarks in 5 years from now.

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

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Post by narrowrail »

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 ?

I used Scapbook forever, but started recently using:

https://github.com/danny0838/firefox-scrapbook/wiki/Features

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

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Post by [deleted] »

derimagia wrote: post #194
mintplant wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do the same. Tangentially, I find Firefox's address bar autocomplete to be far superior to Chrome's (better partial/fuzzy matching and combination matches across URL and page titles). A bit ironic given one is the product of a search company.

Chrome has a flag in chrome:\\flags to enable partial matches.

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

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Post by bogomipz »

jcrites wrote: post #57

I don't use browser bookmarks but I do use bookmarks through pinboard.in: https://pinboard.in/u:jcrites With a paid feature called an archival account, Pinboard stores an actual copy of each bookmarked article, kind of like your own private Wayback Machine. It provides full text search over these articles. I frequently save articles that I read so that I can refer to them later. It doesn't happen often, but once in a…

This might be a silly question but did you add all those tags on the right or is that done automatically by pinboard?

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

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Post by bogomipz »

INTPenis wrote: post #266

No and it worries me. I have a great memory normally, I speak several languages and computer languages. I was raised in the era before search engines when bookmarks were important. But these days it worries me to say that I just visit the same three websites over and over. Aggregation websites with links and content. Sometimes I find myself staring at the url bar not being able to think of anything to do because I've…

>"I was raised in the era before search engines when bookmarks were important."

Out of curiosity when was the era when there existed browsers and no search engines?

Both web browsers and search engines arrived around the same time, circa 1993[1][2]

[1] http://www.wordstream.com/articles/internet-search-engines-h...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_web_browser

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

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Post by golergka »

bogomipz wrote: post #366
INTPenis wrote: post #266

No and it worries me. I have a great memory normally, I speak several languages and computer languages. I was raised in the era before search engines when bookmarks were important. But these days it worries me to say that I just visit the same three websites over and over. Aggregation websites with links and content. Sometimes I find myself staring at the url bar not being able to think of anything to do because I've…

>"I was raised in the era before search engines when bookmarks were important." Out of curiosity when was the era when there existed browsers and no search engines? Both web browsers and search engines arrived around the same time, circa 1993[1][2] [1] http://www.wordstream.com/articles/internet-search-engines-h... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_web_browser

They were very, very bad, and many preferred to use link catalouges, for example.

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

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Post by richardw »

Yes, lots, in Chrome. I have folders directly in the shortcuts bar, with e.g. "Money", "News", "Proj" and current projects usually have their own folders. One I use a lot is "Topics", which has many subfolders for e.g. "Analytics". I use the Other Bookmarks list for things I use regularly but not often (e.g. once a month).

I definitely would like some improvements. My "Topics" folder is huge and I don't really need it loaded each time the browser loads. Just save it in the topic and let me find it later. Also, if Chrome has my shortcuts, why doesn't Google highlight those in search results? And maybe auto-link the saved shortcuts to the terms I used when finding them in the first place. There's a lot of meta data in that action - search-search-search, save. Google knows quite a bit of my thought process (via keywords and sequence), so use that.

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

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Post by asaddhamani »

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.

This is a problem that I was tired of dealing with, and hence I made https://github.com/crestify/crestify

It archives all bookmarks to archive.org and archive.today.

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