Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks and notes?

#1

Post by thrwaway69 » Sat, Dec 21, 2019, 9:41 PM UTC

After reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21840140 I was looking for tools to organize my links and archive them for future but I couldn't find anything that fullfiled every requirement I had in mind. Is there anything that will allow me to -

1. Put a bookmark list page on my website on a subdomain or embed it.

2. Access control and management with multiple members or family.

3. Detach myself from it anytime I want with a local offline app to browse them later on. (I hate subscriptions)

Bonus - open source, privacy oriented.

Things I did check out - pinboard, umark, pocket, evernote, notion etc.

Maybe my requirements are common or obscure so I also made a survey (plug) - https://forms.gle/WcgWKR95M5fgxsW97

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks and notes?

#2

Post by roleone » Sat, Dec 21, 2019, 9:44 PM UTC

raindrop.io is kinda great. gettoby.com as well.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks and notes?

#3

Post by thrwaway69 » Sat, Dec 21, 2019, 9:47 PM UTC

roleone wrote: post #2

raindrop.io is kinda great. gettoby.com as well.

Looked into raindrop but stopped at their pro plan cost. Is that monthly?

Edit: The time bar on mobile site wasn't visible. It's paid yearly

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks and notes?

#4

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Dec 21, 2019, 9:52 PM UTC

thrwaway69 wrote: post #3

roleone wrote: post #2

raindrop.io is kinda great. gettoby.com as well.

Looked into raindrop but stopped at their pro plan cost. Is that monthly? Edit: The time bar on mobile site wasn't visible. It's paid yearly

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Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks and notes?

#5

Post by thrwaway69 » Sat, Dec 21, 2019, 10:02 PM UTC

roleone wrote: post #2

raindrop.io is kinda great. gettoby.com as well.

Raindrop lack the features I want. Toby doesn't yet have a mobile presence and no teams on public? The team button lead me to email app. I want the ability to generate a static website listing bookmarks so I can put it on bookmarks.example.com

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks and notes?

#6

Post by willcate » Sat, Dec 21, 2019, 10:30 PM UTC

Poorly!

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks and notes?

#7

Post by thrwaway69 » Sat, Dec 21, 2019, 10:44 PM UTC

willcate wrote: post #6

Poorly!

is that an actual app? Can you link me?

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks and notes?

#8

Post by tony » Sun, Dec 22, 2019, 12:23 AM UTC

Google Chrome Bookmark Manager.

I've also tried:

- Pinboard (favorite)

- Pocket

- Raindrop

Have a lot of bookmarks already and value to your time? You are better off going into Bookmark Manager on Firefox or Chrome/Chromium and organizing there.

I learned that the hard way - none of the bookmark places are good at bulk organizing tagging unfortunately! So if you're getting into a dedicated bookmark service, assume upfront time organizing what you have currently.

Unfortunately - why I ultimately burnt out is none of them - to my knowledge - sync back into chrome bookmarks so I get them in the bar. And they don't integrate / sync with my bookmarks in Chrome automatically. These services end up getting bolted on and treated as second class to the browser's bookmark manager. So they're not bookmarks anymore.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks and notes?

#9

Post by karlicoss » Sun, Dec 22, 2019, 2:42 AM UTC

I've written browser extension (https://github.com/karlicoss/grasp), that allows me to create bookmarks straight into org-mode. Then I can manage them in emacs alongside other org-mode notes.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks and notes?

#10

Post by thrwaway69 » Sun, Dec 22, 2019, 2:51 AM UTC

karlicoss wrote: post #9

I've written browser extension ( https://github.com/karlicoss/grasp ), that allows me to create bookmarks straight into org-mode. Then I can manage them in emacs alongside other org-mode notes.

That's pretty neat!