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Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by kakarot »

ikawe wrote: post #45

I probably have 500 bookmarks. I never click on them though. Instead I (ab)use bookmarks as a way to increase the weight of URLs in chrome's navigation bar autocomplete/suggestion algorithm. e.g. If you find that you're going to a site's homepage and clicking three times, instead once you get to the actual page you want, bookmark it. You can even give it a more memorable name, like "standup hangout" and then watch it…

That's a very interesting use case! Have you tried using keyword bookmarks? If you find yourself visiting a URL often, you could make it a keyword bookmark with an optional %s search parameter, accessible from the address bar. Useful for websites with generated urls, like reddit or 4chan.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by chrsstrm »

Literally thousands...

Organized in ~150 folders all with subfolders. Ditched the bookmark services when Chrome started syncing data across devices. There are three features I would love:

  1. The search box in the manager does a full text search of the content on the bookmarked page instead of just the title (at the time it was marked, not updated).     
  2. The ability to search by URL with regex.    
  3. Show the date I bookmarked the page.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by hashhar »

jhwhite wrote: post #28

I do but I'm very slowly moving away from them in some instances. If I come across articles I like I save them to instapaper instead of bookmark. For work...I've pretty much created my own wiki of bookmarks using OneNote. Employer uses SharePoint and some pages won't display or work correctly in Chrome, so I use IE for work intranet. So instead of bookmarks I have a notebook and put tags in the notebook for easy sear…

I started using OneNote extensively after seeing how Mike Conley (a Firefox dev) uses Evernote to organise bug info, knowledge etc.

I personally use it to pick out snippets from podcasts I listen to, some code snippet or a technique I find interesting or just collections of links related to a topic. It serves good for "heavier" bookmarks. I can annotate everything.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmaFLMwlbk8wKMvfEEzp9...

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by AceyMan »

kakarot wrote: post #134
AceyMan wrote: post #128

I treat URLs like any other document: I click+drag the favicon off the address bar and drop it in the target folder in explorer (file browser in Windows), which creates a dot-url shortcut. Why keep resources in a unique silo? You wouldn't keep all your PDFs/Word/rtf/&c in a " manager app", so why do URLs have to be kept in one? Also, this way they all get backed up since I keep all work docs on my network drive. I'm…

The problem is that major browsers don't offer a way to offer a view into this data model. The integration is important for an efficient workflow.

Hmm, I'm not sure what the anti-pattern you see is.

I just go to the folder that represents the topic (typically /Vendors/Mgfr/Product/) and there along with spec sheets, user guides, etc., are the URLs I've saved.

Then I {wait for it} open a blank tab (ctrl+t) and drag the URL 'file' back and drop it on the blank tab -- Presto, there's the page.

Considering I probably find four or five worthwhile web pages for every hardware purchase, every semi-tricky JIRA problem, every new tech to master ... that'd just be unwieldy in a bookmarks app. And this way it's detached from any given browser.

It's not super portable but I suppose I could start saving stuff in OneDrive (forBiz) or the like and they'd be more accessible from various networks (home/work/travel/what-have-you), but so far it's done the job for me.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by j_s »

jacquesm wrote: post #24

I do, but I've also come to rely on a plug-in called 'scrapbook'. It allows you to cut a snippet from a webpage and save it along with the url of the original. Very handy, and it also protects somewhat against linkrot. I've tied it to a hotkey to copy any bit that is highlighted to the currently open scrapbook. (shift-ctrl-b) without further notifications or interaction other than the keystroke. Super quick and it do…

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrapbook/

Couldn't find anything intentionally similar with good reviews for Chrome.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by a3n »

I do, but only for frequent things, and I'll clean that out periodically.

For longer term bookmarks I use pinboard.

I use a middle-ground for a few things: I may bookmark, say, news sites in pinboard under the "news" category. Every tag and combination of tags on pinboard has an RSS feed; I bookmark the "news" tag's RSS feed in Firefox, and everything tagged shows up.

The RSS is not for the content of the target sites, it's for what goes in and out of the news tag. So I might add another news site to my pinboard news tag, and vi-ola, it shows up in my Firefox RSS bookmark. Delete something from the pinboard tag and it's gone in Firefox.

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