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Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#92Of 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?
The Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org
It's been backing up the internet for over a decade
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#93I have thousands of bookmarks, and gave up putting them in to folders years ago. Now I just tag them with every relevant keyword that I can think of when I make the bookmark, and search them that way.
Firefox's bookmark manager is very primitive, though, and I've long been meaning to migrate my bookmarks over to org-mode in emacs, where I have much more powerful searching, metadata, editing, linking, commenting, restructuring, and navigating options.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#94My bank url is hard to remember, and search it on google is risky to be a victim of fake sites. So anything fake-able is on my bookmark.
Well I've marked a ton of urls and rarely revisit :( It's like having a camera, take photos and forget them forever. It's a tool to help you forget things, not to remember, sadly!
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#95I stopped using them in favor of Pocket.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#96No, but I use pocket. I put links to technical stuff in there that I intend to read, but I rarely look at it. Maybe I'll start remembering to after this thread. I noticed a while back that pocket allows you to dump them in a text format; I was intending to do that and store in a git repo or my gdrive, so that I would be more confident I'd have them for the rest of my life. I sort of don't really know where chrome's bookmarks are kept, which makes me less inclined to use them, but that's almost certainly lazy/ignorant of me.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#97I email myself the interesting and important links with added note. Gmail have powerful search option to go through any link I am looking for, no problems so far.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#98The thread is already pretty long and it looks like I'm the first one to mention https://google.com/save - works quite well.
Thanks I just went there and found stuff I had saved before and never visited
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#99My bank url is hard to remember, and search it on google is risky to be a victim of fake sites. So anything fake-able is on my bookmark. Well I've marked a ton of urls and rarely revisit :( It's like having a camera, take photos and forget them forever. It's a tool to help you forget things, not to remember, sadly!
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Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#100I use bookmarks. Mainly to keep autocomplete of important URLs intact after clearing browser history.
And also to keep track of important endpoints when I work for a new client (I am freelancer).