https://everhelper.me/client/
Gives a simple explorer style folder/bookmark structure. Can be reordered any way you want. Can sync to browsers if you want but I prefer to just use the website.
Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
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Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
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There's also https://historio.us/ - it's essentially same as what OP is doing but it's as easy as bookmarking
That does look pretty cool, and unusually for a SaaS has chosen a pricing I think is reasonable for the service (not everything should be $9 a month!). Do you know if it does pdfs? That's a key thing I want in this kind of service.
All of Stavros' stuff is reasonably priced and sexy.
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#463Pinboard is still quite active. If you need proof just go to /recent which is a live firehose and interesting to see what people are bookmarking. I use Pinboard and regularly export my bookmarks incase their servers are hacked/wiped/corrupted.
I like Pinboard and its creator but he has been leaving me with the impression that it is no longer a priority for him.
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#464I use pinboard.in
If I think I may need to refer to that content again, I'll also 'printfriendly' (convert the relevant content I need to PDF). I do this for 3 reasons, 1) In case I may need to refer to it again, and the website/content is gone. 2) I'm a digital hoarder. 3) I also like to have stuff available locally in case of extended internet outage
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#465I use Pinboard - and I always tag my bookmarks. Then I usually never look at them again.
I suggest you don't. He's idlewords on this board and his comments speak for him (i.e. mocking his customers) -- he's effectively abandoned any work on Pinboard, including simple requests from paid users (of things as laid out instructions for the board), as well as ignoring error reports, etc.
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
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>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... )
Thanks, that's good to know. Interestingly, iOS has that setting as well but it doesn't work reliably.
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#467Not here to spam, but we're building a really interesting product called mutter where in it's next iteration, every user can store, curate and post links into streams, which we think of as a combination of User x Topic. For example, if a user wants to curate content on React, then the user can create a stream specific to it. This stream isn't a global topic like a subreddit but something specific to a user.
The user can then curate content via both in-app "post" feature, as well as a chrome extension. Interestingly, the discovery feed will also be built in a way that it allows you re-discover content, because we end up saving a lot of content, but rarely end up revisiting them.
:) The current prototype of mutter (URL: https://mutter.ai) was built as a research exercise. We're working on totally new prototype but with a different set of designs.
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#468I 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…
A bit different, but I've been building something similar that runs locally: https://github.com/a5huynh/spyglass You create some rules for topics you want to index and it'll go out and crawl them. Searching through it is a global hotkey away.
Spyglass looks amazing! Thank you for this.
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#469Earlier quoted context omitted.
A bit different, but I've been building something similar that runs locally: https://github.com/a5huynh/spyglass You create some rules for topics you want to index and it'll go out and crawl them. Searching through it is a global hotkey away.
Spyglass looks amazing! Thank you for this.
Thank you! Feel free to ping me on Github/Discord if you run into any issues, always looking to make it better :)
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#470I 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…
Thanks for this recommendation! Do you only index things with a depth of 0? I just set Yacy up a couple days after seeing this post, and didn't realize what that meant at first.
Now I have 10s of 1000s of pages indexed after importing my bookmarks/history, and I'm wondering if it'd be more useful to _only_ index the pages I've visited/bookmarked, or if it'd also be good to crawl those sites further.
I guess one distinction would be whether or not I thought I could use Yacy as a full-time replacement for google/ddg. It'd be nice if I could index "everything", but then have a toggle to search only my bookmarks/history or something similar to that.