Shaarli.
I put all my bookmarks into my shaarli instance, so it doesn't slow and clog chrome.
Only bookmarks I regularly need go into the chrome bookmarks.
Ask HN: How to manage my bookmarking habit?
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Re: Ask HN: How to manage my bookmarking habit?
#42Bookmarks manager is't useful for me. I have a lot of bookmarks too and use https://bubblehunt.com for this.
It is search platform, where you can get free full-text search engine for your resources.
You can upload resources without any limits and get access to your information with search. Now it's beta, in this month coming massive updates (migrate to React, autocomplete and so on...)
Re: Ask HN: How to manage my bookmarking habit?
#43I accumulate more than I should:
image -> Pinterest
link -> TXT file (YAML notation) with lists of links according subject.
Periodically I delete some, however lists keep growing..
Re: Ask HN: How to manage my bookmarking habit?
#44The habit of bookmarking is due to information overload we have nowadays. One thing we tend to forget is even if we were to read every blog on say python it wouldn't make us better programmers because of the amount of conflicting information.
My suggestion will be to loosen up. Find some people you like to follow and read those articles only. Nothing is gained by worrying about "not knowing".
Re: Ask HN: How to manage my bookmarking habit?
#45I made a lot mind maps and then a search engine to solve this. It has been working pretty well so far. :) Here is the search engine : https://learn-anything.xyz/
Thanks, now I have to bookmark this.
Re: Ask HN: How to manage my bookmarking habit?
#46While I don't have anywhere near 10,000, I have accumulated 800 bookmarks over the years.
If you're anything like me, then your problem isn't so much that you're a hoarder. It's that your input / output is extremely imbalanced.
You have this feeling of "man, but that article is probably really good...I don't want to miss out", but then you never read it in the end because you put it on the back burner.
Lately (for the past couple of months) I give myself about a day to read the content I bookmark. If I "can't make the time" for it, then it must not be important enough so it gets deleted.
This input / output imbalance is probably due to not taking enough action. If you're working on XYZ project, and you find a blog post that relates to it, then it's a no brainer to read the blog post as soon as possible so you can apply what you learn.
If you have nothing to output, then you have little reason to read the things you bookmark. Tech moves too fast to bookmark everything. The only time I would really bookmark a tech post for later is when the content tackles a really hard problem, or it's timeless advice.
Btw I use Google Keep to organize bookmarks and it helps a lot because you can tag and archive them. It's very helpful for making sense out of a large number of bookmarks, and lets you archive them after reading them, so you don't lose the URL in the end.
Also, in your case I wouldn't spend time organizing your bookmarks. That is just busy work preventing you from getting real stuff done.
So, the habit change is to ask yourself why you're bookmarking so much. Once you can identify the problem, then the solution is usually pretty easy. Hey, what do you know, life is almost like programming!
Re: Ask HN: How to manage my bookmarking habit?
#47I have them too - usually technical stuff but occasionally interesting articles I don't have time to read immediately/ever. I do housekeeping every so often. I have archives from stumbleupon and del.ico.us. I have them in regular topic folders but also in 'Now', 'Just now', 'Later' and 'Sometime' as well as saving tabs for projects I am working on, one of which would be to devise some way of prioritising bookmarked sites in internet searches over stuff I've not seen before.
Or we could just stop. Let's just stop. Shall we stop? I don't think I can stop.
Re: Ask HN: How to manage my bookmarking habit?
#48Hi my name's Ian and I'm a digital hoarder. I totally agree on the digital hoarding. Just so happens that my mum is a physical hoarder - and that is much worse than a digital one. I have 10872 links inside pinboard. I think there is a big connection between my timewasting and wanting to hoard links. I've managed to trim down any other bookmarking applications so that I just have pinboard. I'd highly recommend this, p…
Have you ever taken a hiatus from new content and focused on reading what you've bookmarked? Has the bookmarked material ever served a use?
Re: Ask HN: How to manage my bookmarking habit?
#49It's a shame that browser bookmarks couldn't serve as likes..
Re: Ask HN: How to manage my bookmarking habit?
#50you might have "todo anxiety", that your unread list is some kind of depth that just keep growing. its easy to get rid of though, just delete it all.