I send links to getpocket.com from $device. I like to save the best ones, so I made a dumb tool to download them as rendered text files (glorified w3m -dump) which I organize in 3 folders that my tool syncs back upstream to GetPocket: favourites (which I keep locally and backed up), archived (local copy is deleted, but link kept in GetPocket), and deleted (sync deletes from local and GetPocket). The tool is http://github.com/srvaroa/repocket
Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
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#42I use https://ulluminate.com/
It lets me add links into different collections easily and I can even share those collections with other people if I want. It's really nice to be able to just share a collection of links when someone ask for something. Ex. I have a nice collection of recipes that I can just share out when someone ask me for a recipe for something.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
#43Besides pushing articles I want to read later to Pocket I tend to use the principle "if I cannot remember the name/address of the website, I do not need to bookmark or visit it". Browsers nowadays are excellent at autocompletion which kind of supersedes bookmarks.
Your browsing history usually expires after some time (in Firefox anyway, haven't checked other browsers but they'll likely do something similar). If you want to keep something long-term, better bookmark it. You can just bookmark pages as a hint to tell the browser not to expire them, and then still access them through the address bar, without spending time on organizing your bookmarks.
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#44I stopped using bookmarks because I just use the browsing history instead.
On browsers I bookmark pages I want to come back to, but it's usually like 3-5 bookmarks before i wipe the browser completely again.
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#45I have been accumulating links at https://dotat.at/: since 2002. It is super low-effort: rather than tagging, I rely on keywords in the title (which I try to adjust to be more searchable). I don’t try to read all the stuff: the links are partly an aide memoire in case I want to go back and dig deeper on a subject. Some of the links I refer to fairly often. (I should probably move my old static bookmarks page to my link log since I use my link log way more now so it is more convenient in practice.)
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
#46Besides pushing articles I want to read later to Pocket I tend to use the principle "if I cannot remember the name/address of the website, I do not need to bookmark or visit it". Browsers nowadays are excellent at autocompletion which kind of supersedes bookmarks.
Your browsing history usually expires after some time (in Firefox anyway, haven't checked other browsers but they'll likely do something similar). If you want to keep something long-term, better bookmark it. You can just bookmark pages as a hint to tell the browser not to expire them, and then still access them through the address bar, without spending time on organizing your bookmarks.
I usually just download an offline copy of the page if I want to keep it long-term. (I'm talking about text data like guides or articles of course)
Browsing my youtube playlist library I can see that bookmarking is not enough if the link dies after a couple years.
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#47With the death of del.icio.us many moons ago, I imported to diigo.com and still use it. Many of the things i bookmark are technical learning related so tend to tag easily and self organize on those tags. I'm just using the free tier, no need for all the fancy paid stuff they offer myself. Importantly, you can export your data as a backup - no vendor lock in.
I use the basic .js bookmarklet in Firefox to add links quickly, no addons or extensions required. Android app is OK but I uninstalled it after not using it for a long time.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
#48Why not just use emacs org-mode?
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#49I try to keep them on a minimum. Either act upon them or delete them. I value my time.
Safari / Firefox are ok for this :)
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
#50In addition to my browsers (Vivaldi) built in bookmark tool which I use for categorization, I’ve been using Google Custom Search to add bookmarks, interesting information, and solutions to problems to a private index. I have a browser shortcut setup to search my private index. When I feel like I’ve seen something before or know generally what I’m looking for I’ll search that index first before going to Google proper. The biggest downside is that adding urls to the index is manual. I was going to create a bookmarklet or browser extension but I haven’t been able to find a public API for adding urls to the Google Custom Search index.