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Ask HN: Do you curate links/bookmarks?
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#62Feedly is great fo saving articles for later and/or adding with multiple tags
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#63Currently using Pocket to quickly bookmark important articles. Their simple tagging system allows us to organize links by topic. We have a "read later" tag for quick bookmarks and after reviewing content we will add a new topical tag. Sharing with peers is easy as well.
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#64I've tried dozens of services through the years and have always come away disappointed. I literally just want to store a URL and the page title — just text will do. I don't want an overwhelming visual list of my bookmarks. I don't want the page content scraped and stored. I don't need to share my bookmarks (other than syncing across devices). I would like some easy way to flag and clean up old 404-ing bookmarks. Simp…
> And I'd like a good-looking UI — not an ugly mess like Pinboard. I’ve been using Pinboard for the last 10 years or so and I’m super happy with it. Love the speed, the text-heavy interface and the high information density. I love that it never changes. I use a separate app my phone (the website is unusable on mobile) and it works great. I don’t need anything more.
I would add that the API makes Pinboard even more powerful. Add to Pinboard then use the API to do whatever you like. This can be as simple as a CLI curl. If you understand the power of the Pinboard API you would appreciate it far more.
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#65I've tried dozens of services through the years and have always come away disappointed. I literally just want to store a URL and the page title — just text will do. I don't want an overwhelming visual list of my bookmarks. I don't want the page content scraped and stored. I don't need to share my bookmarks (other than syncing across devices). I would like some easy way to flag and clean up old 404-ing bookmarks. Simp…
I've been messing around with raindrop.io recently, and it certainly fixes the "ugly" problem of Pinboard. It does some things you say you don't want - page content scraped and stored - but give it a look.
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#66I've tried dozens of services through the years and have always come away disappointed. I literally just want to store a URL and the page title — just text will do. I don't want an overwhelming visual list of my bookmarks. I don't want the page content scraped and stored. I don't need to share my bookmarks (other than syncing across devices). I would like some easy way to flag and clean up old 404-ing bookmarks. Simp…
Try https://yabs.io
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#67Yes, of course I do. I collect bookmarks in many places. Easy to access every day use bookmarks are in my Firefox bookmarks. Others are in my chrome browser which I use for different browsing and the one I want to keep forever I use https://yabs.io which allows me to search and tag bookmarks.
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#68I hope this doesn't sound overly self-promotional, but I have a newsletter with around 1500 subscribers (and a few Patreon supporters) which I started a few years back to address a very personal issue of bookmarking/curation: I realised I was storing tons of links which I never visited and forgot about, but that certain links sort of stuck with me and I kept talking about them, most of which related to data.
So I started sending them out as a curated list of a handful of links per week, alongside a short explanation of why it mattered or a quote.
8 years later, I still sort of remember if I sent something, and I no longer use bookmarks.
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#69A couple of people have mentioned Evernote, which is a great product, and a great service, with a great plugin for Chromium-based browsers (even Edgium!). However, I love me some markdown, so I've started using Boostnote for my actual "thought" notes. I like it quite a bit, and I've found a few tools that help me "clip" articles from the web and turn them into markdown. So far, I prefer `clean-mark` (https://github.com/croqaz/clean-mark#readme), because it has more consistent conversion and better meta-data generation, but I've also used `hget` (https://github.com/bevacqua/hget), which, in my experience, is not as robust but sometimes catches things that `clean-mark` misses.