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

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Post by oneeyedpigeon » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 7:52 AM UTC

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…

> If I come across a deep link ... I email myself the link along with maybe a short description, and it will be searchable forever. > I have 14,183 threads in my work email inbox and I do not file emails into folders

How on earth do you make this work? I find it hard enough to search successfully for an email that I know exists, let alone something I may have bookmarked years ago with who-knows-what text alongside it. I assumed you at least stored them in a folder to ease the search, but without doing that, I don't know how you ever find what you're looking for. What mail client do you use?

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

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Post by daledavies » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 7:52 AM UTC

Yes, excellent for research and saving stuff for later. I do tend to purge after a year or so though because bit rot usually sets in.

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

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Post by kusmi » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 7:54 AM UTC

banku_brougham wrote: post #186

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

I even had to build a server specifically for this, running it on AWS for example would bankrupt me.

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

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Post by oneeyedpigeon » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 7:55 AM UTC

grafoo wrote: post #227

the thing that always bugs me is how to use bookmarks when working with multiple browsers. the various bookmark service platforms never fully scratched the one itch i was feeling => simply save a bookmark and let me add some tags to it. right now the only browser based bookmark i'm having is a bookmarklet that takes me to my own bookmark store ( see https://github.com/grafoo/webdmp if you're interested.)

Have you tried pinboard? I loved delicious back in the day (when it had an impossible-to-remember chain of subdomains!) and pinboard gets as close to replicating that functionality as I've found. I'm still planning on writing my own client to resolve a few minor issues, but the api looks solid too.

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

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Post by sah2ed » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 7:55 AM UTC

mintplant wrote: post #176

MaulingMonkey wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Everything I need is a simple URL (like, my bank: usaa.com - why would I bookmark that?) or a quick Google search away. I can't google NDAed documentation or forum threads. I can't google stuff that's useful to a topic, but that I've forgotten about. Webcomics often have terrible search indexes - and even navigation - so I'll bookmark my place when archive binging exactly as I'd use a physical bookmark. I bookmark-…

> Webcomics often have terrible search indexes Side note, OhNoRobot [0] has full transcript search of 2000+ webcomics. [0] http://ohnorobot.com/

Would have bookmarked your link :) except that it doesn't seem to index xkcd comics.

I tried "xkcd duty call" and it gave no results [0] while Google lists the comic as the first result for the same keywords.

[0] http://ohnorobot.com/index.php?s=xkcd+duty+call&Search=Searc...

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

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Post by MaulingMonkey » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 7:58 AM UTC

mintplant wrote: post #176

MaulingMonkey wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Everything I need is a simple URL (like, my bank: usaa.com - why would I bookmark that?) or a quick Google search away. I can't google NDAed documentation or forum threads. I can't google stuff that's useful to a topic, but that I've forgotten about. Webcomics often have terrible search indexes - and even navigation - so I'll bookmark my place when archive binging exactly as I'd use a physical bookmark. I bookmark-…

> Webcomics often have terrible search indexes Side note, OhNoRobot [0] has full transcript search of 2000+ webcomics. [0] http://ohnorobot.com/

I sometimes manage to get that to coax a broken link to e.g. threepanelsoul, which at least gives me the title to try and further search for.

Sometimes.

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

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Post by govg » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 7:58 AM UTC

Cyph0n wrote: post #185

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 o…

I used to meticulously organize my Firefox bookmarks into different folders and subfolders. A couple of years ago, a friend of mine showed me the Tab groups features (since then deprecated, but lives on as an extension), and I don't think I have bookmarked a site since then. I disable loading until click, and the browser shows me the entire set of groups if I close it and reopen it.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 7:59 AM UTC

d0vs wrote: post #222

derimagia wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chrome has a flag in chrome:\\flags to enable partial matches.

What's it called exactly? I can't find it.

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

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Post by kossmoboleat » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 7:59 AM UTC

a3n wrote: post #151

Houshalter wrote: post #76

Of 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…

If you pay the yearly pinboard fee, they'll archive everything you bookmark. I doubt if they do a deep copy, but it's something.

Instapaper offers a somewhat reduced pocket/pinboard premium experience for free since last November. Importing from pocket is very easy, I don't know about pinboard.

To avoid confusion: the premium level is the default level now...

From https://www.instapaper.com/premium: "Full-text search for all articles in your account"

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

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Post by roystonvassey » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 8:00 AM UTC

Since I find most of the useful content I read either on HN or Reddit, I tend to use in-built mechanisms such as the like/upvote/save options to bookmark things I like.