Of course - even if the site get pulled the title and URL are usually enough to find it or similar again
Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?
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#62It's a solved problem: in the browser. For read-it-later, I just use the Reading List in Safari. Sometimes, I paste them in a .txt file -- and use Cmd+Click to open.
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#63I do, and never used any of those tools, what the browsers provide out of the box is enough.
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#64I use the browser's organization. Everything I use daily or is important goes into the toolbar menu. Everything else is in "Other Bookmarks". Sometimes I create folders if I'm saving a bunch of links.
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#65I use the browser's own bookmarks tool.
At least for work, if I'd lose my bookmarks my productivity would plummet until I could get them back. (Fortunately?) I don't remember how to even start looking for all the Jira links I have saved.
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#66I use are.na to store links in appropriate channels. I have their chrome extension mapped to a keyboard shortcut on my desktop. On mobile I use a separate shortcut. I save links many times throughout the day, trying to curate content that I think is useful or interesting. I’m building several tools derived from this practice.
My are.na bookmarks: https://www.are.na/ya-1sec/bookmarks-1ntdk32bur0
An app i made that surfaces a random page harvested from a few interesting channels: https://moonjump.app/
Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?
#67The solution I use is a script that periodically updates a simple URL database by filtering the TLS/HTTPS proxy log. The proxy software is configured to record the full URL for every HTTP request in a response header. Thus the log contains all URLs that have been accessed. Generally, I do not use a "modern" browser. I send HTTP requests using a variety of software. The log captures all HTTP requests from all software.
This allows me to quickly search for past URLs, irrespective of what software was used to send the corresponding HTTP request.
The proxy is bound to a localhost address.
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#68I sometimes describe Instapaper as "/dev/null for web content". I reflexively share to Instapaper not to read it later, but to absolve guilt for not reading it at all. It is one of my weirdest web habits, on reflection. OTOH, back when del.icio.us was good, I used it for roughly the same purpose. These days, I still send links to Instapaper when they are essays or articles. I send links to Raindrop.io when they are a…
I tried to use various LLMs to go through my Instapaper stuff. It was probably 6-12 months ago and it didn't like any of my attempts.
However, I did still find one-off AI summaries to be very helpful in getting through the backlog to get me down to 0. I now stay at 0. If there is a long article I don't feel like reading, but want to know more than the headline, I will use the AI summary in my browser. That's usually good enough to absolve the guilt, without creating more guilt by adding something to the reading list.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?
#69I only bookmark references, not articles, and just use my browser's bookmarks. At most when for example planning a vacation or big purchase I'll make a folder and bookmark a bunch of relevant stuff, then delete the folder afterwards. If I see an article I want to read I'll just open it in another tab and read it. If I don't finish all my articles that day I can leave them open for a while, and then when I come back to it I often find that I don't actually care to read it as much as I thought, so I'll skim it or just close it unread
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#70I bookmark a lot with raindrop. But I'm planning to migrate to (or create) some self-hosted solution because it's too much data about me. It takes a while for me to migrate as I really like raindrop's UI. I don't come back to most of the bookmarks tho.