Ask HN: Do you curate links/bookmarks?

Check out my https://histre.com/

The main reason behind my building Histre is the idea that we throw away a lot of the signal we generate while doing things online and this can be put to good use for ourselves.

Bookmark management is just a special case of knowledge management. What you really need is a knowledge management tool that is easy to use. You'll get a ton of other benefits too.

As it is right now, Histre aids the casual online research we all do (ie the explore -> filter -> decide loop). For example, it removes friction in taking notes on links you're looking at, with free-form tags that you don't have to create first and other such niceties that add up. And it easy to group notes into notebooks and share. In short, when you have to look at a bunch of links for something (decide on AirBnB, people to hire, material for your next blog post, etc) Histre makes your life easier. But this is just the starting point for what Histre intends to do.

IMHO the biggest problem with apps like Evernote, Notion etc is that it becomes digital hoarding, and not a knowledge base. And the knowledge base focused apps out there involve a lot of manual upkeep, which almost never happens, especially at work. Things start out okay and quickly fall into disrepair. I'm differentiating from the other note taking apps by automatically putting together a knowledge base (grouped by topic etc).

One idea I'm excited about and I'm working on right now is: Histre automatically fetches updates from the websites you visit, ranks the websites with things like lack of ads / referral links and ranks the new posts with your 'revealed preferences' of what you tend to actually read from the list of updates previously shown etc. Personally I think this is will be what replaces social news sites, which are too sensitive to people who bother to go upvote on /new and has to cater to the lowest common denominator.

Automatic Upkeep (WIP): Histre detects links/notes related to your existing notebooks and offers to update those notebooks with the new links and notes. This is similar to how Google Photos suggests new photos for your existing albums. This solves the upkeep problem. Currently people create knowledge bases with good intentions and it becomes stale and useless quite fast.

Exports: I'm working on org-mode exports, as I'm an Emacs user myself. Other export formats coming soon.

Integrations: There is Hacker News (import and optionally share your upvotes) and Telegram (take notes using the Telegram app) integrations now. I'm working on Twitter next (lists of Twitter profiles -> follow all / block all).

That's a great setup! Would you mind sharing your scripts and configurations?

Yes, I do.

I put every blog, site I want to follow on my freshrss instance(rss.ishanjain.me).

I use Reeder(on iOS) and FeedMe(on Android) to read those posts. When I like something, I add it to Pocket where it gets archived and stuff and I can revisit it later at any point.

I use Browser bookmarks to store interesting websites, Like tools, Stuff other than articles basically.

Commented this elsewhere but this is cool so I'll help exposure; "This is cool, I'd dig a $2-5/mo unlimited account for 1 person/team with the same unlimited settings." Personally I just want something like this for myself, I was really surprised I couldn't share a Pocket list/tag publicly when I tried. IE, I have tags on "how to contribute to X project" which has a ton of bookmarks I'd like to allow public contributors/confluence to read without an account.

If it's gone, you can maybe/probably still use the URL to get the content from an archive.