Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
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#33for example: i have a bookmark that shows me every invoice issued in the past 30 days.
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#34Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#35For reference material, I built something sort of vaguely like pinboard.in into a home-brew app that I run for myself. It handles search, a modified form of tagging, and a timeline-like view, and I get to it with a JS bookmark (tada) that lives in-browser and sends selected text as a search.
(The app itself is a ridiculous mess, having grown as a sort of cancer in a different app I wrote for myself that now does several unrelated things. Maybe someday I'll pick that crap back apart into something releasable.)
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#36It's also useful to bookmark in browser because the address bar gives priority to your bookmarks over auto-complete and history.. So it's much easier to access those sites too.
P.S. I organize them by folder, so it's most likely design -> landing pages -> dark -> bookmark or personal -> finance -> bookmark, etc.
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#38Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#39It's gone, now, and I've never seen its equivalent.
These days, I use an extension that saves a local copy of the page. As others have mentioned: Linkrot.
But it's not nearly as quick or convenient to return to a page as it was in PowerMarks. Although, the extension I use does have search -- manually triggered, and thereupon taking some time to initially build the index.
But I end up saving more "read later" stuff in it, as opposed to just reference links. So it ends up being a bit noisier, and size means I end up with multiple stores having multiple indexes.
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#40I make sure I use a descriptive sentence when I save them.
They're useful to me because the people creating the pages don't know about SEO and Google fucking sucks at giving me the pages I need unless I use weird contorted search phrases or remember the exact name of the document.
I have 12 icons in my bookmark toolbar that I use daily. I have a few that I don't use very often.