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Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by asaddhamani »

Bluestrike2 wrote: post #440
asaddhamani wrote: post #370

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> The biggest problem is linkrot. This is a problem that I was tired of dealing with, and hence I made https://github.com/crestify/crestify It archives all bookmarks to archive.org and archive.today.

Very nice. I love the idea of integrating tab saving with bookmarks. OneTab is great, but it's easy to rack up a stupendous number of saved links, with really important ones lost in the accumulated junk. I've bounced back and forth through a couple different approaches and tools. I have a ton of browser bookmarks in Chrome, many of which are old even after I did some cleanup work a while ago. Plus Instapaper. And, of…

Crestify has a tool to import bookmarks from Chrome. Happy to hear you found the tab saving useful :). Let me know what could make Crestify the ultimate bookmarking tool for you, always open to feature requests on GitHub too!

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by probinso »

bookmarks fall into two use cases for me.

1 - important instant recall, across the top of my browser is a interface bar littered with favicons (and no text). I know the name of every site on that list, but don't ever want to type them.

2 - approximate match/personal search. Modern browsers will autofill your url bar as you type things associated with the metadata of a bookmark. This offloads the memory of things i found interesting 8 months ago.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by narak »

kusmi wrote: post #230
x0x0 wrote: post #180

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That's a crazy (awesome?) level of effort. May I ask why you went to it? What type of knowledge base are you building?

I work in molecular genetics research, and I've noticed how disconnected subfields within the life sciences can be. For example, a classical geneticist working with yeast can spend their entire career oblivous to the fact that the problem they've been working on has been indirectly solved by a biochemical engineer working in the same building. This happens for a number of reasons, they publish in different journals,…

This is really cool. Do you mind putting your contact info in your "about" box if someone wants to get in touch to learn more?

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by narak »

taude wrote: post #311
INTPenis wrote: post #266

No and it worries me. I have a great memory normally, I speak several languages and computer languages. I was raised in the era before search engines when bookmarks were important. But these days it worries me to say that I just visit the same three websites over and over. Aggregation websites with links and content. Sometimes I find myself staring at the url bar not being able to think of anything to do because I've…

I don't think this is a bad idea. Let other's aggregate what's important and filters up to the top. I'm the same way. I used to subscribe to a lot of blogs and stuff, now I just visit Hacker News and my custom Reddit front page, and read a couple articles that are popular, and then get on with my day. If you find yourself staring at the URL bar with nothing to do because you already visited your curated aggregation s…

I used to feel this way but there is intellectual concentration risk. Reading the same stuff as everyone else has created an echo chamber for me, and I intend to seek diverse sources again like I did before the link aggregator era.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by zehfernandes »

In the last few years, major bookmark services closed their doors. The browsers' bookmark system tries to organize links as folders and tags — but again, it’s an old model. Chrome's bookmark system has many usability problems, the​ main one being that​ you need to click three times to save one link in a specific folder.

I proposed a new mental model using infinite history. You can see some animated examples here:

http://zehfernandes.com/bookmark-is-dead/

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