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

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Post by mspaulding06 »

Currently I use a variety of techniques for managing content I would like to revisit on the web. I do use bookmarks mostly for often visited websites and I always using syncing if possible with Chrome and other browsers that support it (Brave does now!). I've also discovered some browser plugins that really help with this. OneTab is absolutely indispensable and will store all of your currently open tabs so that you don't have to keep them open. That's great when I've got several tabs open on a single subject that I want to come back to later. I've also started to use Pocket for most blog posts and random things that I want to read some time in the future but can't right now. The nice thing is that it is accessible from all my devices so I can put links into Pocket from my phone and then go to them from my desktop computer.

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

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Post by susam »

I don't use browser bookmarks.

I save my bookmarks in a text file, commit it and push it to a remote Git repo. I have this Git repo cloned on every system I use. Since the Vim editor is part of my daily workflow, visiting one of the URLs in the text file is a simple matter of pressing `gx` while the cursor is on a URL.

This is useful to me because I have this repo cloned on every system I use for various reasons, e.g. it contains my daily notes, productivity scripts, etc. So it makes sense to keep all my bookmarks also in this repo. Also having the bookmarks in a text file provides me the flexibility to add arbitrary notes/comments for each URL I save. The fact that I don't have to use the mouse and I can use Vim search or motion commands to find a bookmark is a bonus.

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

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Post by criddell »

nebabyte wrote: post #312
criddell wrote: post #308

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :)

No argument on that from me.

The other part of the equation for me is that $1 / month seems like the correct price for a useful service. I think Pinboard has something like 20,000 users. If they are all paying $1 / month (I have no idea if they are), then it feels like a sustainable business.

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

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Post by Sebatyne »

I stopped using browser bookmarks to use a web app (the bookmark manager of officejs, https://www.officejs.com/), directly integrated within any browser by updating the default search engine. Having them synchronized on a webbdav server, after loging into the app I can access them from any browser on any device. Then all my searches in the browser bar go through my bookmarks first, and it redirects me to a real search engine if no match has been found.

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

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Post by seltzered_ »

No, I don't use browser bookmarks or bar shortcuts. For me at least, I feel like those needs have been replaced by:

- pinboard. Been using it for many years

- DuckDuckGo's interrobang search to quickly access pin board bookmarks / maps / etc.

- the browser URL bars own autocomplete

- this may have happened also since until recently, I used different browsers on mobile (Firefox) vs desktop (safari)

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