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

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Post by taude »

INTPenis wrote: post #266

No and it worries me. I have a great memory normally, I speak several languages and computer languages. I was raised in the era before search engines when bookmarks were important. But these days it worries me to say that I just visit the same three websites over and over. Aggregation websites with links and content. Sometimes I find myself staring at the url bar not being able to think of anything to do because I've…

I don't think this is a bad idea. Let other's aggregate what's important and filters up to the top. I'm the same way. I used to subscribe to a lot of blogs and stuff, now I just visit Hacker News and my custom Reddit front page, and read a couple articles that are popular, and then get on with my day.

If you find yourself staring at the URL bar with nothing to do because you already visited your curated aggregation site, maybe you don't need to be randomly surfing the Internet, and instead can accomplish some important work. (This is a good place to be in as opposed to someone hot-tabbing to 10 different websites.)

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

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Post by nebabyte »

criddell wrote: post #308
rootsudo wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

To each their own :)

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

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Post by interfixus »

gkya wrote: post #279
interfixus wrote: post #203

Of course I do. Some of them neatly stacked in labeled folders, some of them just higgledypiggledy in the great unsorted. I have my bookmark history on hand to way back before the turn of the century. A lot of those links have died, obviously, but it's a neat historical record of my foci, foibles and obsessions over the years. My data belong either offline or on serverspace I control myself. There's nothing especiall…

Do you think that Pale Moon will live? I'm not really happy with firefox nowadays (not that I'm too much tied to it, a switch-away is as hard as exporting my bookmarks), it's getting slower and slower, sometimes uses all the ram and cpu on my Xubuntu laptop for no apparent reason, and I hate this recent WebExtensions thing. I want to switch, but I don't want to use sth. that's destined to die soon. Why can't we have…

It's a small project - I have no guarantee that it will. I shall do my little bit to keep it afloat, though, as it is by far the most promising FF alternative or fork that I have found. But then, I rely heavily on certain add-ons which will soon go extinct in mainline FF, but may have a future in PM. Your mileage may indeed vary.

I can't help noticing: Pale Moon is slightly faster in most regards, and it gobbles slightly more than half of what recent Firefox does. This is Arch Linux, I have no idea how the world looks outside that small bubble.

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

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Post by mud_dauber »

My bookmarks bar has my top-30 list (mail, feedly, HN, ...) I tried a folder system but found the amount of overhead to be WAY too cumbersome.

I capture stuff to read in Pocket. If I eventually find the link to be valuable (news: almost never; how-tos: much more often), I move it into a Google Keep "PostIt".

The value-add is that I can add pics, notes, links to Dropbox docs, etc in the same PostIt, and organize them as I see fit.

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

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Post by ollieco »

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 a lot and I also like Chrome's handy way of managing bookmarks into folders. I just wish there were better keyboard shortcuts for creating bookmarks and automatically sending them to specific folders (e.g: Cmd + D + T will send it to 'Tech' folder).

Regarding linkrot, I think Pocket or Instapaper will solve that for your because they copy the underlying content from the page.

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

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Post by ollieco »

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 a lot and I also like Chrome's handy way of managing bookmarks into folders. I just wish there were better keyboard shortcuts for creating bookmarks and automatically sending them to specific folders (e.g: Cmd + B + T will send it to 'Tech' folder).

Regarding linkrot, I think Pocket or Instapaper will solve that for your because they copy the underlying content from the page.

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

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Post by smonff »

All my bookmarks collection inside browsers always end up turning to a horrible stack of junk: I don't know how to get rid of the old stuff, you know something that interested you at some point won't be interesting later but you never know...

With the intelligent address bars of the browsers, you can search and find for most of the recent stuff that you used, and even sometimes very old stuff.

I don't use bookmarks anymore, and I feel like the bookmark bar is most of the time a useless distraction.

If there is things I really want to keep, I post it in a public Shaarli[1] instance where I force myself to use tags, description and informative title.

[1] https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli

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