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

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Post by mr_spothawk »

I have tons of bookmarks. Pro-tip: make a bookmark, edit the bookmark, set the title to "" . Then you have it's favicon as your site launcher.

http://imgur.com/a/mVFYh

sometimes I make use of the features "open all bookmarks in this folder".

other times I use the bookmark to (as somebody else mentioned already) weight consideration of sites I'm interested in getting results from.

aside: at hackreactor, I worked with some folks on the beginnings of a chrome extension to grab your bookmarks, analyze the content of each site, and suggest new bookmarks when you open a new tab. the suggestions part was working already by the time I came around. then I got a job and that pretty much fell out of priority... heh.

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

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Post by thewhitetulip »

bm98 wrote: post #88

I'm a little surprised that the majority of the answers here are Yes! I help my parents and my kids work with bookmarks but I have none myself; and I was beginning to think that bookmarks were primarily used by non-technical people. I guess I was wrong! Everything I need is a simple URL (like, my bank: usaa.com - why would I bookmark that?) or a quick Google search away. If I come across a deep link that's so importa…

Because there are so many tech articles which you find interesting but you don't have time upfront to read them.

I have ten-twelve folders

1. ML conf 2. Programming 3. Go 4. R 5. Stock market 6. startup 7. testing 8. writing

etc, without book marks I'd have lost a lot of interesting material.

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

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Post by nevatiaritika »

I use the bookmarks bar to neatly organize my frequent links. And I kind of have an OCD when a link is misplaced in the wrong folder. Of course, then, some folders, I never visit again but some, very very frequently.

Also for the habit of reading/skimming articles and often hopping from one URL to another, I use One Tab. Super efficient to collect links in one page: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbo... On the negative side, my work PC has over 800 URLs and home PC about 1500+

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

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Post by Cyph0n »

I have a ton of bookmarks, but I use them passively. From my experience, Firefox is the undisputed king of making sure anything you type in the address bar will be instantly checked against your bookmark collection.

For instance, maybe I'm looking for a PostgresSQL tutorial. I start typing "postgres" and one of the bookmarks I forgot about from several months back appears. This approach has ended up saving me a lot of time over the years. Another cool thing is when a bookmark pops up when I'm searching that brings back memories. If the site is still up, I get a free trip down memory lane :)

My collection is at least 9 years old now. I've been maintaining the same Firefox database over the years by migrating it manually from version to version. Now it's seamless thanks to Firefox Sync. I get my bookmarks on my PC, laptop, and my phone. I have an Xmarks account as a backup, and for cases when I prefer to use Chrome.

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

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Post by banku_brougham »

kusmi wrote: post #163

I used to, I now use zotero to save whole pages onto webdav, from there bunch of scripts peel the ads off, scrape the text, convert to PDF, store in cms and index for full text search on solr. Also hooked up Dropbox to do the same for one click archiving from mobile. Since Dropbox and the webdav are shared between my partners and I, it's a convenient way to build knowledge base. Experimenting hooking up Telegram and…

Yes. this sounds so awesome i thought it was made up. but i can imagine how this would evolve over two years

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

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Post by rz2k »

mr_spothawk wrote: post #181

I have tons of bookmarks. Pro-tip: make a bookmark, edit the bookmark, set the title to "" . Then you have it's favicon as your site launcher. http://imgur.com/a/mVFYh sometimes I make use of the features "open all bookmarks in this folder". other times I use the bookmark to (as somebody else mentioned already) weight consideration of sites I'm interested in getting results from. aside: at hackreactor, I worked with…

This seems like such an obvious way to use bookmarks in the toolbar, and it keeps me from using Safari more often.

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

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Post by madiathomas »

I have seven folders of bookmarks. Each for different topic/subject. Whenever I come across a new link which I will need to refer to in future, I store it so that I can open it from the bookmark. If I am not going to need the bookmark or no longer interested in a certan subject, I delete the bookmark or the whole folder. Some of the bookmarks have been there since 2010 because they are of the tools I still use.

I use Chrome. I like the fact that the bookmarks are synced to my Android phone and work computer. That way they are available whenever I want to use computer.

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

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Post by kijin »

Yes, every day, as part of a two-tier system.

I use browser bookmarks for pages I visit every day, or for pages that I intend to view again in the near future. An icon on a toolbar right on top of the browser is much easier to access than a link stored in a third-party app or website.

Of course I could just keep all those pages open in background tabs all the time, but I don't like clutter. Having too many open tabs also consumes a nontrivial amount of CPU and RAM. Bookmarks are also safer in case the browser crashes and fails to restore all the open tabs.

I use Pinboard for pages that I might view again at some time in the future, for research or some other purpose. The archive feature is very useful for this.

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