I rarely bookmark anything. If anything, my browser's history is adequate to find anything I need to pull back up, I can start typing in the address bad and it'll get suggested.
Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?
#42I use an ever expanding text file, plus bookmarks. The textfile is #1 for me, and can live on various drives.
like physically ctrl-v-ing the links to a file? that is quite a mental muscle to build every time you find something interesting.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?
#43HN itself is a bookmarking tool, BTW The management and search and annotation options are very weak, but when you submit a link here at HN, you are also making a permanent bookmark that will remain accessible via your account
Let me know if there's ever a tool to search HN limited to discussions I've interacted with in some way eg. submission/favorite/comment (public) or upvote. My interactions disappear quickly and are no help when trying to find that one relevant discussion to link.
The weird answer is that at least some of that functionality is already there. But the documentation and fine control of the search is lousy:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
There’s also an option in the search settings which is supposed to enable or disable whether usernames are relevant
Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?
#44HN itself is a bookmarking tool, BTW The management and search and annotation options are very weak, but when you submit a link here at HN, you are also making a permanent bookmark that will remain accessible via your account
Let me know if there's ever a tool to search HN limited to discussions I've interacted with in some way eg. submission/favorite/comment (public) or upvote. My interactions disappear quickly and are no help when trying to find that one relevant discussion to link.
If you Google search: "+password4321 site:news.ycombinator.com"
(Without quotes)
You'll be able to search things you responded to.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?
#45I sometimes describe Instapaper as "/dev/null for web content". I reflexively share to Instapaper not to read it later, but to absolve guilt for not reading it at all. It is one of my weirdest web habits, on reflection. OTOH, back when del.icio.us was good, I used it for roughly the same purpose. These days, I still send links to Instapaper when they are essays or articles. I send links to Raindrop.io when they are a…
I like the idea -- to extend yours -- all the bookmarks and pages visited (or pages dwelled on for more than a minute) get full-texted and filed to a local LLM. And you can query directly, and it has the context.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?
#46Sure do. I use Buku and the firefox extension. I have a command line alias that shows me all my bookmarks so can grep for certain keywords and cms-click to open them. It works a treat!
Prior to that, I used pinboard (rip).
Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?
#47I sometimes describe Instapaper as "/dev/null for web content". I reflexively share to Instapaper not to read it later, but to absolve guilt for not reading it at all. It is one of my weirdest web habits, on reflection. OTOH, back when del.icio.us was good, I used it for roughly the same purpose. These days, I still send links to Instapaper when they are essays or articles. I send links to Raindrop.io when they are a…
> I do sometimes think that, at least nowadays, you can ask an LLM to visit your bookmarked links and do some semantic search over them. But I guess the best use case is just saving it for later/never rather than wasting time on it now.
I've been meaning to build something like this
Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?
#48HN itself is a bookmarking tool, BTW The management and search and annotation options are very weak, but when you submit a link here at HN, you are also making a permanent bookmark that will remain accessible via your account
Let me know if there's ever a tool to search HN limited to discussions I've interacted with in some way eg. submission/favorite/comment (public) or upvote. My interactions disappear quickly and are no help when trying to find that one relevant discussion to link.
The major LLMs should be able to handle that.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?
#49I still bookmark using my browser. Periodically I back them up.
Additionally, if the content is of long term interest, I post the link to archive.org, ensuring its continual availability. (As a college professor, I have found too many great resources vanish with nothing as good replacing them. When that happens I just change the URL to the Internet Archive version.)
Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?
#50I still bookmark websites. Just in the standard browser, not in Pocket, etc. I found searching for and finding bookmarks a pain, so made a Chrome extension to natural language search with lunr.js. It works nicely and I open-sourced it. Extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bookmark-search/fcj... Code: https://github.com/jamesrr39/chrome-bookmark-search
Do you know if it works in FF?