Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

The proxy log contains the timestamps but not the titles

For the titles I could extract them from pcaps; I also have a running tcpdump capture that logs to a (daemontools) multilog directory

The URL consumption might be different, and difficult to compare, for a number of reasons, e.g.,

I do not use a browser that sends automatic HTTP requests for resources like images, CSS files, Javascripts, etc.

I do not use a browser that runs Javascript so there are no XHR or other Javascript-triggered requests

I do not use remote DNS, I use "curated" DNS data, so the URLs are only for resources at domains I specifically request

I use HTTP/1.1 pipelining so I have large numbers of URLs that are for resources from a single domain, for example DoH (I do not include these in the URL database)

Generally the proxy log is rather clean and excludes garbage requests that are being sent automatically; IME, use of a "modern" browser will fill a log with such garbage

The proxy's self-signed certificate blocks many potential requests from hardware with pre-installed software from so-called "tech" companies, e.g., Google, Apple, Microsoft, because the TLS connections fail

These attempted connections to the mothership are incessant; they would fill a proxy log with garbage URLs if they were accepted

All this makes it easier to for me keep a URLs database; storing all those garbage URLs would make the database less useful

The one time I ever looked at my bookmarks was when I was on a long flight bored of my laptop with no internet, then I realized I had used an extension that cached my bookmark content so I read a bunch of articles, blog posts, and HN comment threads.

Never touched them again.

This is probably a bit unorthodox, but I use tab session manager [0] for firefox. I started using it mainly to be able to save an open window to return to a project, and it ended up replacing my bookmarks. My issue with bookmarks was always the friction of managing them, but for whatever reason it fits my mental model to organize by open windows.

It's really nice to open up a window or group of windows related to a project that I haven't touched in a few months and it just be one click. Plus, if I open up new tabs those also get saved for the next time. It also works for easily pulling up my regular work session so I don't need to manually open up the 8 or so tabs I always need in a workday. Something toaybe check out if you already organize open windows by task or project.

[0] https://tab-session-manager.sienori.com/

Does it support tagging?

I tried using Instapaper and Raindrop to save links, but found that I never went back and read them. Now I use Chrome's built-in reading list and don't read those either!