Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by lynndotpy » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 2:32 PM UTC

I keep a few folders roughly organizing interesting links.

I heard an old trick to avoid overspending. Bookmark an item, and look back in a week. If you still want it, buy it!

I don't have that overspending problem, but I find it applies well to bookmarks. I clear it out once a week, it's a very fun chore. Looking back with a fresh mind, many things are not interesting to me, and those things that are, I can invest time in to look at.

Useful looking tools or programs, I usually file away permanently to another bookmark, because I find myself looking back there many months later :)

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

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Post by buboard » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 2:33 PM UTC

eftokay83 wrote: post #56

buboard wrote: post #24

i have made my own (because why not): https://pinplz.com/ . I tried to make it as simple as single-pressing the bookmarklet because usually i have nothing to add to the bookmark. plus it saves an archived copy

Exactly what I was searching for! Do you plan to create a business out of this or is there a chance for open sourcing/self hosting?

thats a good idea to open source it, after cleaning up the code. I plan to keep it running for the foreseeable future since i use it. I have added self-service ads for now.

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

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Post by euler_angles » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 2:33 PM UTC

monkeynotes wrote: post #69

At what point do bookmarks essentially become an internet of your own making? I guess you need to create a search engine so you can search your bookmark collection, or maybe a Yahoo style directory to browse them. Or... Stop collecting the internet and give your brain a break from data overload. There is a certain flavour of FOMO that keeps tabs open forever and bookmark lists getting huge. Let go of it all. There wi…

Using Google to go back to something is only viable if the site stays online and Google doesn't change their algorithm in a way that makes what I'm looking for more difficult to find.

Time and experience have shown me that sites are ephemeral and Google is constantly changing things, so that's why I archive the things that I find most useful.

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

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Post by winternett » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 2:35 PM UTC

I just create a new folder and that pushes all the other ones to the bottom of the pile, and then I forget everything more than 1 year old... Forwards ever! :/

Seriously though, I can't believe it's 2020 and browser makers haven't updated the way bookmarks are saved, they should have had search functionality years ago...

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

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Post by GavinAnderegg » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 2:36 PM UTC

I use Bear (https://bear.app/) for all my note taking, and use that to organize any links that I might want to come back to later. Its search is effective enough that I'm always able to find what I'm after. Evernote or other apps would also probably work well for this, but I really like Bear's design and ability to manually tag things while writing.

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

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Post by evsasse » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 2:41 PM UTC

I use 3 levels of "importance" for them.

The actual browser bookmarks, with stuff that has proven itself useful and I end up searching for it at least a handful of times a year.

Notion Web Clipper to dump everything else on a "need to organize" file on Notion.

A couple times a month I go into the "need to organize" file, read anything that was there as a "read later" and remove them, simply remove anything that looking back doesnt seem like will be useful on the next year, and move everything else and then categorize/add tags to a "useful links" file also on Notion.

Before Notion I've used Pocket similarly.