I use bookmarks in Firefox in three ways. Sites that I use frequently go in the toolbar. Sites that I use rarely go in folders in the toolbar. Sites that I just want to remember go in "other bookmarks", and later I search for them.
Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#72I don't use browser bookmarks but I do use bookmarks through pinboard.in: https://pinboard.in/u:jcrites With a paid feature called an archival account, Pinboard stores an actual copy of each bookmarked article, kind of like your own private Wayback Machine. It provides full text search over these articles. I frequently save articles that I read so that I can refer to them later. It doesn't happen often, but once in a…
That's really nifty, but also seems something that can be hacked in a day. Create a script to fetch the articles contents, and reformat it into a index that can be searched.
I like the idea of pinboard. I want to copy it. But, I also want to be lazy.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#73No, and I judge pretty harshly anyone who does. A few shortcuts/bookmarklets on the bookmark bar is acceptable.
You can judge me, but I use bookmarks to keep track of citrixes that I need to log into sometimes and also for documentation sites that I occasionally reference for work.
I don't believe in bookmarking interesting articles I hope to read one day. Those go on the someday/maybe todo list (which may as well be called the not today/not ever todo list).
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#74The thread is already pretty long and it looks like I'm the first one to mention https://google.com/save - works quite well.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#75Yes. Mainly the toolbar
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#76Of course, and I'm surprised many people don't. Chrome handles bookmarks well, automatically syncing them between different machines you are signed in on. I used to have them nicely organized into different folders but now it's a bit of a mess... It's especially useful to deal with tab explosion. Control+D and you can just save all your tabs in a single folder (and never look at them again.)
The biggest problem is linkrot. As a rough estimate 13% of links die every year, and it's quite possibly much higher than that. (https://www.gwern.net/Archiving%20URLs) Without the glorious web archive, bookmarks would be unusuable. And I wonder how many people know about web archive.. Youtube-dl may also be useful if you want to preserve music or videos (despite the name, it works on almost every site I've tried it on including audio sites.) Someday I intend to script something up to automatically scrape all my bookmarks and make a local copy, but it seems complex.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#77Absolutely. I trust Firefox Sync more than third-party services. I have a fairly comprehensive hierarchical structure. I only bookmark things I really care about, but even still have hundreds of bookmarks in tens of folders. It's useful because it makes these sites show up immediately in the address bar as I start typing. API done for example. I just start typing the library/API name and the address bar autocompletes the part to the doc index b/c that's what I've bookmarked. One step shorter than bouncing through Google.
I also bookmark articles that I think I'll reference in the future, that supports or contradicts something I believe strongly.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#78Nope
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#79Of course, and I'm surprised many people don't. Chrome handles bookmarks well, automatically syncing them between different machines you are signed in on. I used to have them nicely organized into different folders but now it's a bit of a mess... It's especially useful to deal with tab explosion. Control+D and you can just save all your tabs in a single folder (and never look at them again.) The biggest problem is li…
What do you mean by web archive?
I recursively download sites using curl/wget on websites I want to preserve for a long time. Is web archive something different?
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#80Of course, and I'm surprised many people don't. Chrome handles bookmarks well, automatically syncing them between different machines you are signed in on. I used to have them nicely organized into different folders but now it's a bit of a mess... It's especially useful to deal with tab explosion. Control+D and you can just save all your tabs in a single folder (and never look at them again.) The biggest problem is li…
Here's part of that script you're talking about:
wget --recursive --level=5 --convert-links --page-requisites --wait=1 --random-wait --timestamping --no-parent $1