Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by bluehatbrit » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 2:00 PM UTC

I used to work at the company that built https://gurn.io/ it's a bit different to bookmarks but the sharing features have been amazing. My entire team at work uses it now.

The tldr is it maps urls to key words / phrases that we input. Those mappings go into a shared list, using the browser extension you can then search for them in the browser bar.

We tend to plow in tons of stuff, some of which we may never use, but countless times I've bashed in a phrase out of pure hope and found a team member or me in the past have added the resource in.

Lists are a bit like repos, you can have private ones just for you or you can share them, and they can all be searched at the same time.

It's a bit rough around the edges, but it's free at the moment for non-enterprises.

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

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Post by abinaya_rl » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 2:00 PM UTC

I just share the link to my email and make sure inbox zero when I get time.

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

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Post by ThatFave » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 2:04 PM UTC

Im using Firefox aswell and I try to keep every link in its fitting folder, aswell as tagging them. Works for me but I only have around 250 max.

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

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Post by statictype » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 2:05 PM UTC

I used to use pinboard.in - now I just put everything I want to read into Instapaper.

I hardly bookmark sites that don't contain articles for reading.

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

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Post by arbol » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 2:10 PM UTC

The simplest way - I don't have any!

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

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Post by zylyye » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 2:11 PM UTC

I often used a Chrome extension called Toby, it has some essential feature: 1. easy to categorize 2. sync on a different 3. share with your friends

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

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Post by SAI_Peregrinus » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 2:11 PM UTC

AndrewDucker wrote: post #22

If you're willing to tag things so you can find them later, then https://pinboard.in If you're not then don't store them, just google them when you need them. That will either help you find the link you wanted, or it will find you something better, because the world has moved on since then.

Wholeheartedly agree with this. I've been very happy with pinboard, the one area that could use improvement is on the mobile side: it's a bit annoying to set a new bookmark in a mobile browser.

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

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Post by dksidana » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 2:12 PM UTC

I will recommend trying out https://refind.com/

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

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Post by monkeynotes » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 2:12 PM UTC

At what point do bookmarks essentially become an internet of your own making? I guess you need to create a search engine so you can search your bookmark collection, or maybe a Yahoo style directory to browse them.

Or...

Stop collecting the internet and give your brain a break from data overload. There is a certain flavour of FOMO that keeps tabs open forever and bookmark lists getting huge. Let go of it all. There will always be more data to consume every day, you'll never have time for that AND 5k of bookmarks. Use Google when you want to go back to something. I bet if you deleted 90% of those bookmarks you would not really miss them after a month.

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

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Post by silon42 » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 2:13 PM UTC

psv1 wrote: post #9

> I have more than 5000 bookmarks on firefox With the risk of sounding like someone on StackOverflow, do you even need to do this? I have <100 bookmarks at any time and regular bookmark directories with browser sync work great. I don't have a good solution for efficiently managing thousands. But I also can't imagine that you'll ever actually read all of them, or need to re-read most of them. It's okay to see somethin…

I have many bookmarks too (10k+ -- firefox is not very fast handling them). Most of them not needed of course, but there have been several instances I tried to open something in my bookmarks and the site no longer existed... so obviously bookmarks also need to store the last viewed site content)