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

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Post by TimC123456 »

fauigerzigerk wrote: post #260
TimC123456 wrote: post #101

I’m using Safari on macOS and iOS as my primary browsers. If I find something worth bookmarking, I add it to Reading List (the keyboard shortcut is muscle memory by now) which gives me a searchable list of offline—readable sites synced across all my devices. I’ve also found the History search really great at quickly allowing me to solve the “what was that ZFS HOWTO was looking at last week?” type of situations. I, to…

>Reading List “just works.” Offline reading doesn't always work. On the Mac I have to use the "save offline" menu. On iOS I haven't been able to find out when or why it does or doesn't work offline.

While it’s not on by default, there’s a Safari preference you can enable to save offline automatically: Safari > Preferences, click Advanced, then select “Save articles for offline reading automatically.”

(Source: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/keep-a-reading-list-s...)

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

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Post by prepend »

kybernetikos wrote: post #274
danesparza wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance

That's a good one, but I was thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Desktop > Google Desktop was a computer program with desktop search capabilities, created by Google for Linux, Apple Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows systems. It allowed text searches of a user's email messages, computer files, music, photos, chats, Web pages viewed , and the ability to display "Google Gadgets" on the user's desktop in a Sid…

Google desktop was so great. It’s also weird how bad windows search and Mac search sucks.

Google desktop was able to find files anywhere in milliseconds. Still today if I search for a file on windows it takes many seconds and frequently misses the file. And there’s an indexing service that seems to peg my cpu every once in a while.

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

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Post by prepend »

kamray23 wrote: post #351
prepend wrote: post #315

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That’s a really genius idea. I also like the author’s pricing mode. I was fearing some stupid “$10 is just the price of coffee. This is worth 24 coffees a year for the rest of your life” and have a reasonable $7 purchase price.

that's some expensive ass coffee considering i buy a bag for less than that and use it for a week or two, making tens of cups

You are not Starbucks’ market.

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

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Post by d4rkp4ttern »

MattieTK wrote: post #360

I dropped pinboard.in recently. The interface hasn't had improvements in years, the extensions are all third party, and the API if you wanted to build your own is pretty limiting. The mobile interface is pretty poor too. I'm now moved over the Raindrop.io[1], which is another solo-developer outfit, but has had a lot of work put into it. It does all the same stuff Pinboard does (including page archiving but beside the…

I second this. Saving links for future reference is a very important part of my daily browsing, and I have found nothing better than Raindrop.

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

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Post by johnthescott »

lukaszkups wrote: post #264

Similarly to other commenters here, I would like to share my approach: - if it's an article related to my interests and that fits for the overall contents I share on twitter - I simply tweet about it. - if it's code-related (e.g. github repo) - I just "star" it - if it's something else - it depends what category it is, because I have two bookmark folders in the browser: "4 later" (so that if something seems to be int…

i utilize a similar email tagging system via gmail. tag menus in browsers are just portable bookmarklets, seeded with tag, current page and title.

small words are good. simple words are better. small simple words are best.

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

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Post by TimC123456 »

jxramos wrote: post #137
TimC123456 wrote: post #101

I’m using Safari on macOS and iOS as my primary browsers. If I find something worth bookmarking, I add it to Reading List (the keyboard shortcut is muscle memory by now) which gives me a searchable list of offline—readable sites synced across all my devices. I’ve also found the History search really great at quickly allowing me to solve the “what was that ZFS HOWTO was looking at last week?” type of situations. I, to…

so what is the reading list feature exactly, I was going to post to AskDifferent what's the deal with that feature and what does it offer precisely. I had stuff showing up in my list but they all got added there accidentally. Does Safari download a static version of each page and caches it somewhere on disk and indexes it somewhere in the browser for you?

Yes, pretty much as you expect: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/keep-a-reading-list-s...

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

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Post by bhub »

dawnerd wrote: post #342
bhub wrote: post #170

I used to use pinboard[1] but since I started dicking around with self hosting I use Wallabag[2] for “read it later” articles and linkding [0] for saving links that I want to refer to later. Linkding is pretty much a self hosted pinboard [0] https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding [1] http://pinboard.in/ [2] https://www.wallabag.it/en

Wallabag is pretty great, the chrome extension is nice too.

The iOS app scrolls to where you stopped reading last. This sealed the deal for me over raindrop.

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

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Post by d4rkp4ttern »

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #164

I use https://mymind.com It's also a good dumping ground for any kind of interesting snippet, image, or whatever I find interesting. There are some neat little features for occasionally sorting through your "mind" and discarding unused information. It's not free, but I don't mind because the UI happens to work well for me. It's thoughtful, well-crafted, and I'm happy to support them.

Looks interesting but has bad reviews on iOS App Store

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

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Post by Eddy_Viscosity2 »

throwoutway wrote: post #359
Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #296

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I highly recommend it, even for this use case. It takes a bit to get used to in how it works and setting so that it works well for your given workflow. For example, I'm a latex user so I had to add extensions to zotero so it can output to bibtex. But again, it wasn't that bad. Once its set up and you used it a few times, it easy and super useful. I use it not only for web bookmarks, but as my main 'library' for all m…

Do you use the browser extension at all?

Yep, constantly. That's how I use it instead of bookmarks. It also has extra functionality for certain cites like google scholar to make it easier to save journal and conference papers.

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

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Post by hashim »

prepend wrote: post #412
kybernetikos wrote: post #274

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a good one, but I was thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Desktop > Google Desktop was a computer program with desktop search capabilities, created by Google for Linux, Apple Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows systems. It allowed text searches of a user's email messages, computer files, music, photos, chats, Web pages viewed , and the ability to display "Google Gadgets" on the user's desktop in a Sid…

Google desktop was so great. It’s also weird how bad windows search and Mac search sucks. Google desktop was able to find files anywhere in milliseconds. Still today if I search for a file on windows it takes many seconds and frequently misses the file. And there’s an indexing service that seems to peg my cpu every once in a while.

You want Everything. I've been using it for probably close to 10 years now, it makes searching on Windows not just bearable, but capable.
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