Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by psiegmann » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 11:07 AM UTC

I'm quite happy with a set of project specific bookmarks to get people up-to-speed quicker. We have web-{dev/acc/prd}, cms-{acc/prd}, jira, confluence, buildsystem, log-{dev/acc/prd}, etc

We maintain the bookmarks in yaml and generate the html to import into firefox/chrome/ie. Script: https://github.com/psiegman/bookmark-generator

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

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Post by unexistance » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 11:07 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…

Hey done the same with my Fx profile/database too, keep migrating it from quite some time ago, manually backed-up from time to time

Recently used the bookmark-keyword thingy, pretty good BUT I'm still used to remembering URLs :p

Heck, one of the reason I'm not migrating to Chrome is... Bookmark shortcut key [alt]+[b] combined with js bookmarklet

e.g: remove floating div, press [alt]+[b] -> [3] done

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

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Post by svartkonst » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 11:09 AM UTC

I do, semi-organized into folders. Mostly for archival purposes. If I come across something, a product or library och guide or whatever, that I want to save, I bookmark it.

I don't use the bookmark tabs, and I'm not regularly using what I have in my bookmarks, they're more for safekeeping, and to remind myself aobut things.

Plus it's fun to take a look through the bookmarks and rediscover things.

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

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Post by squiggy22 » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 11:10 AM UTC

I wish Google would create a separate index of all the stuff I bookmark, and provide it as a subset of the Google search experience. I too find myself Google searching for info Ive previously browsed.

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

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Post by ecesena » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 11:12 AM UTC

I only have 3 or 4, hn is on of them, and I use them mostly on my iphone/mac (with the active bar), when I open a new tab I can open those sites with a single tap, pretty convenient. Beside this no, I've never organized them.

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

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Post by sigi45 » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 11:14 AM UTC

Yes. I hide my bookmarkbar on tabs and only see them on new tab.

I have in my bookmark bar the most used sites. I have a few folders for topics and for work bookmarks.

Bookmarks help me to close a tab. It gives me the feeling that i still can read it but i don't have to do so now. Sometimes, depending on the content, i pocket it instead of using a bookmark for it.

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

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Post by pelasaco » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 11:15 AM UTC

I just failed on this task. My bookmarks always get a mess and normally I search over and over again for the same stuff. Said that I'm looking forward for a solution to help me solve this problem.

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

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Post by vbezhenar » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 11:15 AM UTC

First of all, I use reading list. It's kind of bookmark in Safari. If there's interesting webpage, but I don't have time or mood to read it, click and close. If I answered and want to check it later, click and close. Once a week I breeze through them and delete, so it won't stockpile like a mountain.

Second is Favourites (like bookmark bar), I can access it from blank page. I'm saving webpages, that I visit often, news, important forums, etc. Also webpages, that I'm using currently in work (e.g. Postgres documentation, if I'm working with it right now.

Rest is just organized by topic list of webpages that I could use later. I'm not using it that often, but sometimes it might be handy.

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

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Post by ronreiter » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 11:19 AM UTC

Reading list is not bookmarks. And of course we do use bookmarks, especially those who work in companies that require frequent access to several systems.

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

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Post by ninjakeyboard » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 11:24 AM UTC

13of40 wrote: post #205

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…

I use bookmarks, but only in the sense that I use the bookmarks bar at the top of my browser. It's quite well curated and sorted so I can get to http://whatever/internal/web/portal/we're/worshipping/this/w... and https://whatever/damned/source/control/system/we're/using/th... at the click of a button. I don't bookmark junk stuff, and I clear off the bar regularly.

I do something similar. My bookmark bar looks like this: GSuite, Hackernews, The Morning Paper, Google Docs, Customer Folders (wiki, ticketing systems, relevant documentation or whatever), Personal Folder (NAS, etc), My Company Folder (internal Things), Things to Read (stuff I bookmarked but haven't actually read yet)