Ask HN: Do you curate links/bookmarks?

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I’ve mostly given up, since web developers seem to have forgotten that URIs should be stable. If there’s a 50% chance it’ll be gone when I go to look for it, it’s not worth the effort to me.

This is like reason #17 why I wish we had a hypertext system (like we used to have) that was separate from the application deployment system (that’s been given to us).

Let's just say I'm seriously dissatisfied by how I deal with them. After trying multiple variants I (once again) ended up basically just using Pocket (which I hate and promise myself to replace by Wallabag or such, but... yeah) for everything I'm going to read (removing permanently after it's done), and just bookmarking everything I want to keep between history cleanups in my address bar suggestions without sorting much.

I would like to use bookmarks more, assigning tags, using them in my planning, but Firefox bookmarks just suck and I end up spending too much time without any benefits. There were some external tools for that, but they aren't better than a plain text file because of poor browser integration.

Anything that can be annotated and put into context ends up somewhere in my *.md notes.

I used to do this for a few years: https://f5n.org/stack - but my interests have shifted a little and not too many people gave any feedback or indication that they read it.

These days I just save them to Pinboard, like I used to, and sometimes go back and find something I vaguely remember...

I usually send bookmarks to my separate email account. I add excerpts and quotes from the bookmark that I find interesting, also helps with searching.

Every few weeks I conduct housekeeping on my email. This moves the good bookmarks over to my personal git wiki or deleted. This ensures that every bookmark I have gets visited at least twice. This also allows me to not overthink before adding a bookmark without ending up with incomprehensible huge lists of bookmarks that I never end up re-visiting.

I've learned over the years to keep this system simple. Understand and realize that whatever bookmark system you use will eventually go away. If its good enough, they will try to monetize, if not they will be forced to close shop. Either way it gets killed, at least for me.

Another side note: not all bookmarks are equal. Some are just references you want handy when you want to point someone to them, usually in an online argument where response time matters. Some links have golden content on the other side. You want to read, re-read, internalize and remember (spaced repetition) this. Some are work related. Some are aspirational stuff you want to get to in the future. So knowing what and why I am bookmarking something was key to keeping it real.