I made this shell script to save them in a text file with title and tags and I can search with fzf. The nice thing is that I can open urls in specific software. A video in mpv, a gemini url in amfora and so on. It's not really well written but it serves my needs. But I still need a way to import my browser bookmarks.
https://github.com/paulobtn/cli-bookmarker
Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
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I recall in the past lots of people reporting issues with their bookmarks going missing with xBrowserSync. It also hasn't been updated in quite some time. My biggest issue, is it appeared to primarily integrate with the browsers bookmark manager... and once you had thousands of bookmarks in the browser bookmark manager, it started lagging. I prefer something with a native local service to search and manage bookmarks,…
I've been using xBrowserSync for over 2 years to sync 4 devices without issue. I do occasionally export my bookmarks for backup, but haven't had to use it. I switched after losing years of bookmarks to a Firefox sync issue. One of the best things about xBrowserSync (for me) turned out to be its workflow. I can't imagine going back to bookmarking in nested folders. Using tags with search is just so much better.
Thanks. I'll give it another go, although I was hoping for something that synced to markdown files.
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#454I bookmark since like... 15 years ago, nowdays I use raindrop.io to tag bookmarks. Can't live without it!
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#455I had a Mozilla wave back in the days. And I was very happy. Today you need 3 containers, is it awfully complex and there is no documentation. And the Mozilla guys are far less helpful than in the irc days. Could be cool. But unfortunately sucks. Is there anyone with a Mozilla sync setup, that is reasonably secure and willing to share his configuration?
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#456I developed this over a weekend
rewq.app (after opening it once, you could swipe the name on the keyboard. The TAB key next to `q` triggers the auto-complete and completes rewq.app)
I use it making shortcuts to links or lists. Like, music -> ...music..link.. , so on.
When I swipe, rewq ? music
The url opens. :-p
FYI ... Also comes with a chrome extension.
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It would also be nice to be able to search through my aggregated browsing history on every device I use. Maybe I should open a feature request to Google/Fracebook to provide an API hook for that, since they probably already have all that information anyway.
My chrome history appears to aggregate my browsing across devices Anyways, so it should just be a matter of exposing that info
Firefox probably does too, if you're logged in.
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#458I recently launched an iOS app that may be relevant here! Unlike other apps that save bookmarks that stay unread forever, Ephemera sets a deadline that the bookmark must be read by. Miss the deadline, and that bookmark is gone. https://deadpan.io/ephemera/ I’d love for the hacker news community to check it out!
Can I import my ff bookmarks to it?
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I pay for the premium tier. I've been disappointed by their promises about content being retained forever. There's a big caveat that they don't actually keep paywalled content forever. This is annoying because I might save something that's not paywalled right now, highlight it, then come back a year later and I can't get to my highlights anymore. And they've been extremely unreliable in being able to retrieve all of…
Exact same, Pocket is so close to being the perfect service and yet so far. I have a huge archive and their search is just terrible. I will have a specific keyword from an article I know I have in there, and yet all I get from their results is utterly irrelevant articles. Making it worse, you can't filter the search results to, say, your Favorites, so I have to sift through all the random crap in my full archive. I a…
same. Have a premium account but their search doesn't work properly. At one point I asked their support and they switched my account from premium to non-premium, asked me to pay for another premium account (which they then refunded). Then it was working properly for some months, but now it's having problems again. So annoying...
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#460I use Firefox sync. Make sure to open the settings page and to disable everything else, the default behavior is to capture credit cards, logins, passwords, and complete history (I would qualify this default behavior as 100% in violation with the privacy by default principle required by GDPR in EU but hey, who am I to voice an opinion :)