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

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Post by zmix »

beernutz wrote: post #394
narrowrail wrote: post #362

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I used Scapbook forever, but started recently using: https://github.com/danny0838/firefox-scrapbook/wiki/Features

Holy smokes thank you for this link! I have been looking for a page archiver that would actually pull down ALL the files needed for a page and fix the relative links. All the others I have found simply ignore css includes like fonts or css images. This one works great! Finally!!

Another option is the Firefox "Print Edit" Addon. It allows you to remove any unwanted stuiff from the webpage and then save it as a single file (or print it). This will include all the CSS, Javascript and raster-images as base64 encoded data-urls. What you gain, in the end, is a single HTML (not MHT) page, that contains all the requisites and has crap removed (by you).

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

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Post by mr_spothawk »

rz2k wrote: post #187
mr_spothawk wrote: post #181

I 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…

This seems like such an obvious way to use bookmarks in the toolbar, and it keeps me from using Safari more often.

I've mostly switched to Safari for personal stuff, and there's a New Tab screen with all your favorites on it... works similarly, but not as pretty. Still gotta stick with Chrome for work.

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

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Post by yetanotherjosh »

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…

You don't even use bookmarks for short-term shortcuts to to highly-accessed, complex, URLs? For instance, someone in your team shares a google doc with you that has the specification for a feature you're building. It takes weeks to build this feature, and you've got a browser window sitting on that spec doc half the time. You won't bookmark that? You'll load it up from an email search every time?

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

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Post by idlewords »

tptacek wrote: post #224
jcrites wrote: post #57

I 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…

It also does fulltext indices of PDF files, which is pretty awesome if you read a lot of CS papers. It's become my cryptography research search engine for that reason.

I can't believe the PDF fulltext search works. Must be a rare alignment of bugs across search engine, PDF parser, database, and website.

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

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Post by idlewords »

criddell wrote: post #354
nebabyte wrote: post #312

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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.

It's something like that (I'm not being coy, I just haven't run the numbers). It comes out to $200K/year on ~$15K of operating expenses.

More people should run niche sites! A vanilla Flickr reboot, for example, is a livelihood waiting to happen.

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

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Post by nebabyte »

idlewords wrote: post #405
criddell wrote: post #354

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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.

It's something like that (I'm not being coy, I just haven't run the numbers). It comes out to $200K/year on ~$15K of operating expenses. More people should run niche sites! A vanilla Flickr reboot, for example, is a livelihood waiting to happen.

Image hosting is so much heavier

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

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Post by nebabyte »

criddell wrote: post #354
nebabyte wrote: post #312

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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.

Other than the archival for $25, I don't see what I'd pay for that my own bookmarks don't already get me.

And the archival itself is likely only useful for stuff other people have already archived anyways; in the rare instances I find something I definitely want to ensure I have a copy of, I can usually find a way to get a copy onto my local machine and NAS.

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

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Post by fasquoika »

fenchurchh wrote: post #262
Houshalter wrote: post #164

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Chrome has the option to export all bookmarks to an html file, which I think can be given as an input to wget. Now if I understand that correctly, won't it recursively download every web page and all it's links 5 levels deep? Because that could be quite enormous if there are just a few web pages with lots of links...

You will get some duplicates of Kevin Bacon's homepage but should be fine otherwise.

Also around 500 papers about number theory
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