I use Nextcloud Bookmarks [1] and Floccus [2] to sync the bookmark toolbar on Firefox/Chrome. I like to host my own, I don't need to sign into a 3rd party, and it's more cross-platform than browser sync.
Ask HN: Where do you store bookmarks?
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#62OneDrive, text files. I can access it on my phone too if I need to.
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#63TiddlyWiki + SyncThing! I'm a heavy emacs user and used org-mode for a long time, but I'm finding that TiddlyWiki already lives in the browser, so it works well in places that Emacs has a harder time (tablets, phones, Chromebooks, whatever).
TiddlyWiki is quite underrated, I think. https://tiddlywiki.com/
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#64I'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/7…
it lets me cite myself easily. "I read somewhere that X" is much less useful than "on such and such a date, person X wrote this oped in Y that asserted Z and i thought that was interesting..."
That sounds like a ton of administrative work. Imagine 100,000 bookmarks!
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
it lets me cite myself easily. "I read somewhere that X" is much less useful than "on such and such a date, person X wrote this oped in Y that asserted Z and i thought that was interesting..."
That sounds like a ton of administrative work. Imagine 100,000 bookmarks!
search is fast when you have many tags (and tag suggestions on new bookmarks) and full-text search of your cache.
Normally I can remember a phrase to search on, and that's fast.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
That sounds like a ton of administrative work. Imagine 100,000 bookmarks!
search is fast when you have many tags (and tag suggestions on new bookmarks) and full-text search of your cache. Normally I can remember a phrase to search on, and that's fast.
Yeah, my brain tends to categorize things a little differently than Google does, so being able to tag something in Pinboard makes it much easier for me to find it later.
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#67Diigo is working fine for me. They try to do more (annotations eg) but I don't use it.
I switched from pinboard to diigo around 2 years ago. I love the "Annotate Page" functionality. I use it on all my bookmarks to quickly save the parts that I found useful or interesting. It is particularly useful when bookmarking HN/Reddit discussions, newsletters / link aggregations like High Scalability Newsletter. The hightlights are available when I open the page later so I know what I liked. Furthermore, the highlights show up when browsing the bookmarks on diigo, which makes it really great for research.
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#68I just use Chrome everywhere (home, work, phone, tablet) and it syncs everything real well if you're signed in. I have a "to read" folder I dump stuff in to go through later.
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#69hacked this https://github.com/grafoo/webdmp together some time ago.
nothing fancy but works for me and i can host it on my own server.
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#70I'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/7…
Easy, there are are people who sort everything into a system that often no one besides themselves see through and people who use search. I'm absolutely #1 - I've been filing my emails into a set of folders and I usually find everything I need by just looking through one folder (because sometimes you don't know the keyword or the person, just a vague feeling of "I'll notice when I see it"). In my last job we used GMail and the labels just didn't cut it (partly my bad because I didn't set up this elaborate folder structure) and I hated it.