Ask HN: Where do you store bookmarks?

Same here. I also use tags a lot in my bookmarks.

I have tried Pocket and Google Keep before, but Firefox Sync is an order of magnitude more fluid to me.

on macOS i just drag link to Finder. Or drag "+" in the left of address in Safari. In chrome drag https lock icon.

It is .webloc format.

I sort it, move folders/subfolders. You can easily preview it with space button in Finder.

The whole folder is repo stored on github. Also there are many markdown files, screenshots, interesting files.

I use symlinks (softlinks) which points to large binary files outside repo.

Often i want to put bookmark in markdown file. For this i use this bookmarklet:

javascript:var%20text='-%20%5B'+document.title+'%5D('+location.href+')';window.prompt(%22Copy%20to%20clipboard:%20Ctrl+C,%20Enter%22,text);void(0);

it is 5th bookmark in my Safari's favorites. I just hit ⌘⌥5 then ⌘C - and then paste it in markdown.

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If you're interested in this system there are PRO-TIPS:

* if you drag "+" in safari or "https-lock" in chrome - the .webloc is binary.

  - name of .webloc is page 

* if you drag link on page - then .webloc is plain text. And name is na

  - name of .webloc is what inside  html - tag

* there'is plain text .url format, which you can also open in both macOS and windows. But macOS's Quick Look is not works. Thats the reason why I decided to keep using bad-for-git binary .webloc

* .webloc is actually plist which is actually xml. You can easily parse binary plists with python's plist module

I'm curious as to the reason for storing bookmarks. It was a feature long ago, before search engines became so powerful. So what exactly is the use case now?

This guy on the Pinboard google group reached TEN THOUSAND bookmarks. For what reason exactly? https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pinboard-dev/JKSUpO6...

Here's another user with A HUNDRED THOUSAND.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/pinboard-dev/JKSUpO67cuA/7Hd...

Ooh, that looks useful, thanks! (I’m approaching the 100k bookmark barrier, and I’m well-behind in tag maintenance over the last couple of years. Thank goodness for full-page search of my archives!)

- Lynne

That sounds like a manual search engine to me?

I tried many times to manage bookmarks in various forms, and it just turns into a giant list that you never revisit. Cathartic to just delete them all.

It sounds like a utility for people who hoard things in general.

Thoughts?

I use falcon extension on Chrome. It indexes all the sites you visit so you can find the same site again with a search instead of a bookmark.

Firefox Sync + Firefox Bookmarks + Firefox Addons for managing native bookmarks + https://github.com/WebMemex/webmemex-extension for indexing + custom code to generate static web pages with pure JS search with content out of bookmarks + I send interesting links to my friends if these could be interesting to them via email.

Do not use proprietary closed source solutions.

UPDATE: For something more importatng I use gitlab/gitlabe pages(my works usually) or syncthing (copies)