Yes, in small quantities and not synced. They're for sites I visit regularly, or essential intranet pages at work.
Stuff I want archived for reference or I want to read later goes to Pinboard.in.
Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#302I 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…
I use the "open all bookmarks in this folder" as well. I have a folder which contains the top sites I visit everyday and I start my morning routine by opening them into the tab tree.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#303Definitely. But more often i use Pocket instead
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#304I use the bookmark ribbon in Chrome as a "to visit soon, or return to" list. Stuff I would normally look through the history for.
My most desired feature in Chrome is being able to right-click a link and add it to my bookmarks. Presently, I have to open the link in a new tab/window (using right-click, then T or W) then go to the tab/window, click on the bookmark star, then close the page (i.e. before it finishes loading). If I want to avoid loading a page I don't want to look at right now, I'll right-click on the link, then E to copy the link to the clipboard, then go to a new tab, bookmark it, right-click on the new blank bookmark link, then E to open the editor dialog, type in some suitable title, tab to the address text box, paste in the URL, then click Close. Either way, it just isn't simple.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#305Of course I use bookmarks, how else could I remember websites.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#306I do and have for our support team for our company when we hire newbies. We have a pretty standard "load-out" of commonly used pages and sites, both internal and external, which are commonly used for support calls for the product. A newbie might not have use of every single link, but having a curated list of "this will be useful at some point, just keep in mind that it's there should you run out of ideas" really helps them get past the initial hurdle of learning the ins and outs of the product and the other elements that support it.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#307I'm a diehard fan of classic bookmarks. I tried pinboard, pocket, and other services, but for me the browser bookmarks with some form of organization works best. I like and use all Chrome shortcuts and nifty features for bookmarks, and even if the browsers seem to be going into a different direction (see Chrome's "smart" bookmarks), as the saying goes they will have to pry them from my cold, dead hands.
(At the moment I have 519 bookmarks in 73 folders)
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#308I don't use browser bookmarks but I do use bookmarks through pinboard.in: https://pinboard.in/u:jcrites With a paid feature called an archival account, Pinboard stores an actual copy of each bookmarked article, kind of like your own private Wayback Machine. It provides full text search over these articles. I frequently save articles that I read so that I can refer to them later. It doesn't happen often, but once in a…
That's really nifty, but also seems something that can be hacked in a day. Create a script to fetch the articles contents, and reformat it into a index that can be searched. I like the idea of pinboard. I want to copy it. But, I also want to be lazy.
Pinboard is $11 for a year. There are a million things I'd like to cobble together and I'm happy to cross one off my list in exchange for $11.
I wish there were more services like Pinboard - useful, inexpensive, reliable. Too often it's a pick-two situation.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#309I'm a big fan of bookmarking but I found the browser features didn't fit my needs all that well. So I built my own browser extension which I really like. Hasn't taken off at all and development has kind of stopped for the time being (other work has put it on the back burner) so it's still just available on Chrome.
Using it I hit Ctrl+M (the shortcut to open it) and then I have my top 20 sites key bound. So HN is Ctrl+M -> h. All my other bookmarks can be accessed via a search feature which you can tab or "/" to get to on opening the extension. I hate lists/folders so my bookmarks are all hidden away behind the search function. The extension is built for either the mouse or keyboard so I have a lot of flexibility in how I interact with it.
The site for it is: www.devmark.io
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#310I use diigo. The free version lets you cache the page, annotate the page with highlights, and tag your bookmarks. The extension for Chrome works very well. They also launched some PDF annotation features, but I haven't tried that.