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

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Post by anyfactor »

night-rider wrote: post #8
theandrewbailey wrote: post #2

Isn't HN a bookmarking service?

Well you could use it that way by adding stuff to your favourites. A largely unused but useful feature of HN.

I literally posted my last post, so I can add it to my favourites on HN.

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

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Post by brokenkebab2 »

l72 wrote: post #27

I have started doing something completely different than using bookmarks. I set up yacy[1] on a personal, internal server at my home, which I can access from all my devices, since they are always on my wireguard vpn. Yacy is actually a distributed search engine, but I run in 'Robinson mode' as a private peer, to keep it isolated, as I just want a personal search of only sites I have indexed. Anytime I come across som…

Can it cache indexed pages? If not how do you deal with disappearance/changes online?

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

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Post by Overtonwindow »

My bookmarks have not changed in a long time. I use the same bookmarks. I never really use the service, because I never really use bookmarks all that much, I’ll just Google something. I found the bookmarks get on wielding and I start losing track of them and I start having lists of bookmarks that are 9 years old.

Rather than bookmarks I use Pocket. It’s been very helpful especially for articles and technical websites that I want to be able to reference later.

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

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Post by kybernetikos »

l72 wrote: post #27

I have started doing something completely different than using bookmarks. I set up yacy[1] on a personal, internal server at my home, which I can access from all my devices, since they are always on my wireguard vpn. Yacy is actually a distributed search engine, but I run in 'Robinson mode' as a private peer, to keep it isolated, as I just want a personal search of only sites I have indexed. Anytime I come across som…

This is great, and is something I've wanted for a while. I use pinboard which is supposed to have similar capabilities (click 'search full text', 'search mine' after turning on and paying for 'archiving'), but I've never been totally confident in it (pages would change, and the cached version was updated to a 404 page), and ended up letting my archiving subscription lapse.

I think google used to offer something that did this as well as search all your local files, but I think that went the way of all gThings.

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

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Post by lexa1979 »

mikece wrote: post #4

I haven't thought about it in years... but is Delicious still a thing? I would think (hope?) there would be an open source, PHP-based project I could throw onto commodity hosting to collect and manage bookmarks. If this doesn't exist it should -- and I wonder how hard it would be to also integrate saving/sharing tab-sets as well.

What you're looking for is Shaarli => https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli

There's a whole community of "shaarlist" in France, you can also fuse several shaarli in a "river"... Some rivers are my 2nd HckrNws when I want to read something.

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