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Re: Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking

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Post by bsnnkv »

flanbiscuit wrote: post #45

For a long time I wanted to figure out a way to organize my "bookmarks" that I have scattered all over the place. I have many many favorited posts on HN, I used Reddit's "save" feature, I add videos to "watch later" or some other playlist in Youtube, etc etc. I thought maybe I could one day unify all this into one place where I can tag them so I know why I bookmarked them (I have definitely sifted through pages of my…

Your initial want is pretty close to I ended up creating for myself for all things text-based with https://notado.app. I ended up ditching my old stuff in Instapaper, Readwise and Pinboard back in 2020ish because it didn't really fit the data model[1] (content-first rather than link-first) and since then I'm very happy with how everything is archived[2], organized and shareable[3] in Notado.

I still think it's possible to go incredibly far with a good data model, fuzzy search, automated tagging and feed publishing.

[1]: https://lgug2z.com/articles/the-bookmarking-data-model-is-wr...

[2]: https://lgug2z.com/articles/notado-07-2023-update/

[3]: https://lgug2z.com/articles/using-rust-chrome-and-nixos-to-t...

Re: Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking

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Post by al_borland »

flanbiscuit wrote: post #45

For a long time I wanted to figure out a way to organize my "bookmarks" that I have scattered all over the place. I have many many favorited posts on HN, I used Reddit's "save" feature, I add videos to "watch later" or some other playlist in Youtube, etc etc. I thought maybe I could one day unify all this into one place where I can tag them so I know why I bookmarked them (I have definitely sifted through pages of my…

What I never understand about the chat interfaces is how I'm supposed to browse? With something like bookmarks, I sometimes go through my old bookmarks and find interesting/useful things I forgot all about. If it's all in AI, behind a chatbot, and I forget about something, how do I know to ask for it?

Re: Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking

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Post by flanbiscuit »

al_borland wrote: post #52
flanbiscuit wrote: post #45

For a long time I wanted to figure out a way to organize my "bookmarks" that I have scattered all over the place. I have many many favorited posts on HN, I used Reddit's "save" feature, I add videos to "watch later" or some other playlist in Youtube, etc etc. I thought maybe I could one day unify all this into one place where I can tag them so I know why I bookmarked them (I have definitely sifted through pages of my…

What I never understand about the chat interfaces is how I'm supposed to browse? With something like bookmarks, I sometimes go through my old bookmarks and find interesting/useful things I forgot all about. If it's all in AI, behind a chatbot, and I forget about something, how do I know to ask for it?

Yes, true. Maybe there's a happy medium where it can auto-tag/organize them for you but also provide the chat interface, giving you the choice to browser or ask. I don't want my links to just be ingested by AI and disappear. I think being able to see them somewhere as well is important.

Re: Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking

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Post by hahajk »

al_borland wrote: post #52
flanbiscuit wrote: post #45

For a long time I wanted to figure out a way to organize my "bookmarks" that I have scattered all over the place. I have many many favorited posts on HN, I used Reddit's "save" feature, I add videos to "watch later" or some other playlist in Youtube, etc etc. I thought maybe I could one day unify all this into one place where I can tag them so I know why I bookmarked them (I have definitely sifted through pages of my…

What I never understand about the chat interfaces is how I'm supposed to browse? With something like bookmarks, I sometimes go through my old bookmarks and find interesting/useful things I forgot all about. If it's all in AI, behind a chatbot, and I forget about something, how do I know to ask for it?

Readwise has been really good for me to remind myself of highlights I made years ago. I set aside 30 minutes in the morning to go over a few highlights and write. I think that adding a "random bookmark" every day would be a good idea. Most of the time you say "huh, I forgot I had that" and forget it forever. But once in a while it comes at the perfect time. (Or a few days before/after the perfect time would still be nice)

Re: Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking

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Post by jrm4 »

Hey folks, another option that I've settled on (after messing with shaarli, shiori and a few others) is Buku.

Usually I really like plain text instead of dbs, but the killer here for me, I realize, is that I'm not tied to any one method of input OR output. Mainly, I do adding through a bookmarklet, and retrieval through "bukuserver," a self-hosted web thing. But also, I have the option of the command line (for bulk adding) as well as browser addons and other things, and (I use Syncthing) it doesn't matter "where" the db is, either on my machine or hosted on a vps.

https://github.com/jarun/buku

Re: Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking

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Post by hawski »

flanbiscuit wrote: post #45

For a long time I wanted to figure out a way to organize my "bookmarks" that I have scattered all over the place. I have many many favorited posts on HN, I used Reddit's "save" feature, I add videos to "watch later" or some other playlist in Youtube, etc etc. I thought maybe I could one day unify all this into one place where I can tag them so I know why I bookmarked them (I have definitely sifted through pages of my…

If I would ever be bothered enough to invest time in getting to know existing or making my own bookmarking system I would just like for it to cache the text from a thing I want to bookmark and offer a nice full text search over the whole archive. I think that, the HN's favorite, Pinboard has something like this.

I would think about going one step further and having a full text search over my whole browsing history with a way to penalize or remove certain hosts. Then I would love to augment my web searches to also include things from my archive.

I feel I would have a much bigger utility out of this in comparison to thing through AI, though I get it could be also beneficial. However AI, I believe, is costlier to run. A nice, properly indexed, full text search probably could run on a phone at least for a private archive.

Re: Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking

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Post by egonschiele »

justusthane wrote: post #11

Two thoughts: - I like the no-nonsense landing page, but what I'd like more is to be able to see what the product actually looks like without having to sign up. At least screenshots, but a demo would be nice. - I'm looking to migrate away from Pinboard, but I like how you can see all of a user's bookmarks (e.g: https://pinboard.in/u:justusthane ) unless they mark them private. I get that the point of Webtag is it's p…

Just curious, why are you planning to migrate away from Pinboard? I have been meaning to sign up for years.

Re: Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking

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Post by DandyDev »

GGO wrote: post #50
flanbiscuit wrote: post #45

For a long time I wanted to figure out a way to organize my "bookmarks" that I have scattered all over the place. I have many many favorited posts on HN, I used Reddit's "save" feature, I add videos to "watch later" or some other playlist in Youtube, etc etc. I thought maybe I could one day unify all this into one place where I can tag them so I know why I bookmarked them (I have definitely sifted through pages of my…

I use linkding for that? Have you tried it? https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding

Does linkding pull in your GitHub stars, Reddit saves etc? That’s what the parent wants to achieve. It seems linkding is just a regular bookmark tool.

Re: Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking

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Post by burgerrito »

jrm4 wrote: post #56

Hey folks, another option that I've settled on (after messing with shaarli, shiori and a few others) is Buku. Usually I really like plain text instead of dbs, but the killer here for me, I realize, is that I'm not tied to any one method of input OR output. Mainly, I do adding through a bookmarklet, and retrieval through "bukuserver," a self-hosted web thing. But also, I have the option of the command line (for bulk a…

Interesting:

- Shiori (栞) means bookmark in Japanese

- Buku means book in Indonesian

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