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Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

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Post by epsylon »

kevinSuttle wrote: post #62

I can't believe no one has mentioned XMarks.com I've used them for years. Can't imagine using anything else. I keep a minimal amount of bookmarks, only ones I visit daily. For archiving, I use Kippt.

I've been using XMarks for a few months now, after having tried different options (Firefox sync, evernote, instapaper) and haven't felt the need to use anything else as well. It can synchronize painlessly between my various computers and has different profiles (subsets of folders) so that you can differentiate, for example, work bookmarks from personal ones. There are plugins for all major browsers (I'm mostly a Firefox user but sometimes use Chrome) and a handy web interface.

It also has a nifty backup service allowing you to restore previous versions of the bookmarks, should you have erased something important or something else. There are also other services (password sync and open tabs sync) which I don't use.

I use it to store ~2000 bookmarks in a loosely disorganized set of folders. My biggest grief is that Firefox's bookmark user interface is terrible (and Chrome's only slightly better), and it becomes painful to use when you want to classify hundred's of bookmarks.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

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Post by peerst »

mgrouchy wrote: post #27

Big fan of Pinboard.in

Same here, since Pinboard is protocol compatible to Del.icio.us its well integrated almost everywhere (also an option in lots of mobile apps). Everywhere else I use just the great boomarklet.

Especially great is their page archiving ... goodbye link rot and you can even download the archives of your bookmarks

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

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Post by jorde »

mnicole wrote: post #22

Hijacking: I'm looking exclusively for a service that allows for images to be applied to the link the way Snip.it was. I've found [related] visuals (even if it's just a cropped screengrab of the site/blog post) are much quicker to remember/navigate through later than text. Been trying to use Kippt, but it just doesn't do it for me.

Kippt's creator here. I send you an email about this.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

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Post by dan15 »

citricsquid wrote: post #46
TallboyOne wrote: post #37

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Yessir! Did the entire thing myself :) By the way... This may seem crazy but I knew I recognized your name. Someone registered with your same username 6 months ago. Heh. Sometimes my memory is awesome, and other days I can't remember what I did the day before. http://pineapple.io/profiles/citricsquid

Very impressive, it would be very easy to pass the site off as something that had an entire team of people behind it, everything is so well polished. Do you have any long term plans for it? That's me! Found it when you posted on reddit ( http://redd.it/yh6w3 ) :D

I agree with this. A very well-polished site, looks incredibly professional. Great work.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

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Post by dan15 »

nla wrote: post #53
citricsquid wrote: post #46

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Very impressive, it would be very easy to pass the site off as something that had an entire team of people behind it, everything is so well polished. Do you have any long term plans for it? That's me! Found it when you posted on reddit ( http://redd.it/yh6w3 ) :D

I really like pineapple as well! Did you scratch roll it or build off an existing framework? Do you have any interest in making it available for reuse?

It appears to be built using Ruby on Rails.
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