Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

news.ycombinator.com

391–400 of 479 posts

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

#391

Apple Notes is where I put urls along with just about everything else. The one and only thing I miss about Delicious is that it was great to see what other people were saving under a specific tag or topic.

I do the same, but search really sucks. I miss Delicious, and tag based org.

What about… http://pinboard.in/

?

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

#392

I'm still using a clone of https://del.icio.us/ that I wrote in 2004 after a fit of pique when it went down for a day or two. I use it almost daily and have amassed 11,490 links as of today, and most of them have the HTML cached. It's kind of fun to track my interests over time by counting tag frequency, but I mainly use it out of nostalgia and for the mere constancy of it.

How do you get it to work with sites that are javascript-heavy or have heavy bot restrictions? I've been trying to make something similar but spent weeks just fighting edge cases on HTML not caching correctly.

I don't worry about it and just use a straight-up HTTP GET. That works a surprising number of times. If I was trying harder I would use Puppeteer or similar and try to grab a full height screenshot. Most of the time I'm just clicking the URL to get back to the page.

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

#394

I have the pocket extension installed in chrome. Not so much because I actually refer back to the things I have added to it but so that when I have wayyyy too many tabs open I can click the "add to pocket" button on a few of them and not agonize about closing them.

same, and i can download the articles on my ereader

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

#395

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…

Agreed it's much better service, I've been really enjoying it.

One feature I recently learned was Highlights [1]

You can select a passage of text on the page, then when bookmarked, it'll save the selected text. Allows for multiple highlights. And then visiting the page in the future those texts clips will then be highlighted again.

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

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

#396

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's also https://historio.us/ - it's essentially same as what OP is doing but it's as easy as bookmarking

That does look pretty cool, and unusually for a SaaS has chosen a pricing I think is reasonable for the service (not everything should be $9 a month!). Do you know if it does pdfs? That's a key thing I want in this kind of service.

I use Zotero for this and it shines at pdfs. It does webpage snapshots too. Discussed below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31849987

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

#397

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…

Just here to +1 Raindrop. I’m crazy happy with it. 2y after starting paying for it atm

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

#399

I'm using https://anybox.cc to hold my work life together. It's a native Mac/iOS app (not web based like raindrop) and very keyboard shortcuts heavy

Does it have any sync feature?

Yes! It syncs to iCloud across all apple devices

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

#400
I use Pocket because the Kobo Libra 2 reader supports it.

What I would really like, though, is if i could manage my bookmarks with SyncThing and have good browser integration.

I've always wanted some kind of SyncThing Companion App that provides NextCloud-y features with ST as the backend.

Post reply on HN