Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?

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Post by raisin_churn » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 7:26 AM UTC

zorrolovsky wrote: post #45

I think firefox has everything you need already. I use librewolf in linux but any firefox on a desktop OS should behave in the way I describe below. > i want rich bookmark behavior. This points needs specifics. What do we mean by rich? what are the outcomes we're trying to achieve? > i want to be able to quickly load common favorite news sites & blogs. > or load a window with all my productivity SaaS sites. This can…

> This can be easily achieved through folders in a bookmarks toolbar. For example I have a folder called 'News' with my top 4 sites. When I open the browser, I just right-click on the 'News' folder, click on "open all bookmarks" and those sites open on a tab each. One click and half a second... very efficient!

Even more efficient, you can Ctrl left click the bookmark folder, or even more even more efficient, middle click. Of course, this requires you properly curate your bookmark folders, my News folder has some two dozen bookmarks, and I definitely don't want to open all of them. But this "open all" behavior isn't recursive, so you can just put stuff you don't want to open every time in subfolders.

Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?

#52

Post by onion2k » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 7:29 AM UTC

The one feature that's missing from browser bookmarks in my opinion is aliases. If I could bookmark a page, and then assign it an alias like "hn" so I could just type "hn" in to the address bar to go to that bookmarked page, that would be so helpful. It's possible to do this in Chrome by abusing the site search feature (add a new site search, give it a name, use a URL but don't put a %s search query in it... now it's an alias[1]), and there are plugins[2], but it could be so much better if it was a proper browser-level feature.

[1] https://speedtestdemon.com/productivity-hack-chrome-aliases-...

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/alias-bookmarks/og...

Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?

#53

Post by jmercouris » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 7:30 AM UTC

You’re not alone, this is possible in Nyxt. HTTPS://Nyxt.atlas.engineer. You can narrow a list of bookmarks and open them in new buffers in one click. You can also bookmark a set of buffers in one click.

Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?

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Post by robga » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 7:32 AM UTC

I reckon I’ve just ticked over 10,000 days of web browsing.

And I’ve never once used a bookmark. Not even once.

Maybe I’m the second class citizen?

Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?

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Post by karamanolev » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 7:33 AM UTC

onion2k wrote: post #52

The one feature that's missing from browser bookmarks in my opinion is aliases. If I could bookmark a page, and then assign it an alias like "hn" so I could just type "hn" in to the address bar to go to that bookmarked page, that would be so helpful. It's possible to do this in Chrome by abusing the site search feature (add a new site search, give it a name, use a URL but don't put a %s search query in it... now it's…

When I name a bookmark in Chrome and then type its name (or parts of it) in the address bar, the bookmark shows up. I need an arrow down (or more, in case of more results), which is definitely suboptimal, but it more or less already works.

Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?

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Post by HellDunkel » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 7:34 AM UTC

You are not alone. I do bookmark a lot an later on don’t find or remember things.

Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?

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Post by mackrevinack » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 7:34 AM UTC

vapemaster wrote: post #5

pixelfog wrote: post #2

You are not alone. I found raindrop that meets my needs.

cool i'll check out raindrop, thanks for the tip! but i just wish there were some talented engineering teams at the leading browser creators (cough couch google, mozilla, MS, apple, etc) that would integrate this as a first class feature. a design goal, not a supported extension.

i think if there was any browser to add something like raindrop natively it would be vivaldi. they seem to do a lot things differently than other browsers

Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?

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Post by yborg » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 7:36 AM UTC

jbverschoor wrote: post #42

Bookmarks don't work. What does work is saving a snaphot of the page, including content (and maybe the trail path). There is no way of 'archiving'. This is why I like pocket.. The rabbithole is a trap btw..

Firefox has several extensions that do exactly this and don't sell your data.

Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?

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Post by TedShiller » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 7:37 AM UTC

google

Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?

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Post by grsmvg » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 7:37 AM UTC

Try and get an invite for Arc. It solves these problems. Honestly i thought this post was just a secret marketing plug by one of their employees haha, but no one mentions it in the comments so far.