Yes. Stuff to real later, stuff I want to share, resources I might come back to, quick grouped access to tools I use regularly (but not frequantly), links related to each of my dev missions, etc.
Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#372Have more than 150,000 Links in Pinboard. I Bookmark every new site that i like when i come across. Wanted to start something similar to producthunt from those, but never got to it. May be someday would make it like a Yahoo directory but that day never comes.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#373Hells to the yes.
To take things a step further, I'm not entirely sure how I'd function without them.
(I'm sure I'd find a way, but it would be an adjustment and a loss)
Firefox's fuzzy searching in the URL bar makes bookmarks awesome. My "workflow":
1. Bookmark anything I might need later by clicking the bookmark button. It presents a little tooltip-like popup that lets me edit the title and tags if I want to.
2. Sometimes I edit the title/tags and sometimes I don't. I make this call based on a quick judgement call on whether the default will allow me to find the article later. Suppose the article title is "MySQL Adds Froitz-Based Blammo Filtering." Well, that should suffice. But if the title is merely "10 Awesome New MySQL Features" then I might want to edit the title/tags to mention something about "Froitz-Based Blammo Filtering" if that's what I'm interested in. [1]
3. Then I usually never use the bookmark ever again.
4. BUT, sometimes I do. And Firefox's fuzzy match implementation lets me type "mysql froitz" and get a match on this bookmark 100% of the time. Chrome's matching is stupider & I'm not sure about Safari. Safari makes adding bookmarks less convenient than FF or Chrome so I assume finding them is harder. (Maybe it's not, I don't know)
I don't know about Firefox's bookmarking performance characteristics. But, I know that I've been adding lots of bookmarks forever and it "just works" and it feels instance. The fact that I've never had to think about it beyond that point is a compliment of the highest order. That's one of the many reasons why I remain a dedicated Firefox supporter.
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[1] This is just a theoretical example, of course. MySQL does not actually receive new features, awesome or otherwise.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#374I have a ton of bookmarks, but I use them passively. From my experience, Firefox is the undisputed king of making sure anything you type in the address bar will be instantly checked against your bookmark collection. For instance, maybe I'm looking for a PostgresSQL tutorial. I start typing "postgres" and one of the bookmarks I forgot about from several months back appears. This approach has ended up saving me a lot o…
I've been running Fx sync ver 1.1 (EoL fall 2015) @home for almost 5 years now on a tiny vm but have not taken the time to move over to 1.5. This requires (since Fx version 32-ish maybe) to keep old installers (ver 28 is the furthest back I go) around for any platform if I re-image or add a machine I want to carry my bookmarks to and then upgrade to latest once sync is complete. iOS _used_ to work but that was the first platform to completely bail on the older sync
This is probably the absolute worst way to handle bookmarking but as long as sync ver 1.1 is still functional I will probably keep doing it, sadly. I've at least given up sorting with folders and labels and just rely on the search in Fx.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#375Of 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…
A little known chrome extension that maintains the convenience of ctrl+D for saving bookmarks but adds immediate option to save to a folder via fuzzy search: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/better-bookmark/pn...
I've read through the webstore link and the github page, and I'm clearly missing something. I don't see an option to save to folder via fuzzy search. In fact, I don't see options at all. I see a list of my bookmark folders with a search at the top. If I actually click on any of my bookmark folders then it just closes the menu.
It doesn't let me navigate through my folders, and it never opens anything.
Edit: Redundant
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#376I do.
I never have to worry about them going away and I can organize them into folders any way I like. Plus, they can be exported, imported, and shared. I use Firefox, so accessing the bookmarks is as simple as using a drop down menu. I actually use a bookmark tool bar for my ost frequently visited sites. This way, when I want to go to HN, for instance, I just click a single button and I'm there.
I've looked at other bookmarking software/services, and I still find that plain old browser bookmarks still fit every use case.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#377Of 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…
Youtube-dl is the best. I use a bash script I wrote to pipe the output into ffmpeg which saves a high quality version of the source and a web optimized webm version.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#378Pocket is how I bookmark now.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#379Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use bookmarks, but only in the sense that I use the bookmarks bar at the top of my browser. It's quite well curated and sorted so I can get to http://whatever/internal/web/portal/we're/worshipping/this/w... and https://whatever/damned/source/control/system/we're/using/th... at the click of a button. I don't bookmark junk stuff, and I clear off the bar regularly.
I do something similar. My bookmark bar looks like this: GSuite, Hackernews, The Morning Paper, Google Docs, Customer Folders (wiki, ticketing systems, relevant documentation or whatever), Personal Folder (NAS, etc), My Company Folder (internal Things), Things to Read (stuff I bookmarked but haven't actually read yet)
I use separate Chrome profiles for personal/work, so things like bookmarks, history, etc. don't get mixed together. And if for whatever reason I need to quickly remove just my personal stuff from the machine (or work stuff), I just have to wipe out that one profile. I'm surprised more browsers haven't adopted profiles yet.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#380I have a ton of bookmarks, but I use them passively. From my experience, Firefox is the undisputed king of making sure anything you type in the address bar will be instantly checked against your bookmark collection. For instance, maybe I'm looking for a PostgresSQL tutorial. I start typing "postgres" and one of the bookmarks I forgot about from several months back appears. This approach has ended up saving me a lot o…
Safari does this really good, as well (your point about checking bookmarks against what you type in the address bar). It also pulls history, and it's very fast (no doubt due to Spotlight).