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

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Post by nexuist »

StavrosK wrote: post #78
monkeynotes wrote: post #69

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 wi…

> I guess you need to create a search engine so you can search your bookmark collection I did: https://historio.us

Your demo page throws a security error on Firefox FYI.

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

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Post by ShamelessC »

aswerty wrote: post #105

I built devmark.io a couple of years ago but it never took off - never went beyond a Chrome extension. It is a bookmarking tool designed so it didn't feel like you were collecting urls - you'd save them and rely on the search function (which isn't that advanced unfortunately - postgres full text search). I still use it myself but hosting costs about 300euro every year so it's a questionable investment from my own poi…

That sounds high for a few text searches a day. Do you have a large number of sites saved?

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

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Post by Psyladine »

btrettel wrote: post #91

I used to bookmark pages frequently. I think at one point a few years ago I had more than 15,000 bookmarks in Firefox possibly dating back to 2001 or so (when I used IE!). (Edit: According to a file I have, I had 12,072 bookmarks on Aug. 1, 2015. As I recall this wasn't my peak.) In practice, I found that by the time I would return to them (often years later), I frequently lost the context and the page went offline.…

>So now I will typically instead paste the URL into an organized series of text file notes on various subjects, sometimes including a short summary of what interested me, a quote, or both.

This has been my way of doing it for some years. Usually end up writing a blog-ish sort of shorthand in sublime text with some thoughts and perspective to prime my later self on what I was thinking and why it caught my attention. Usually leave a few hanging questions for followup as well.

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

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Post by mjankowski »

My approach is to keep adding those to github wiki using a simple bookmarklet which asks me for a link name and url

https://github.com/maciejjankowski/2020/wiki/Jan

good things: it is stored as a markdown file for each month, it is a github repository, so it can be edited either online or in text editor, it is quite easy to search it using command line tools or 'find in folder' option from text editor

missing features - tags, longer descriptions

bookmarklet code: https://gist.github.com/maciejjankowski/312800dd22fbd8cd8f07...

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

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Post by dgellow »

ShakataGaNai wrote: post #115
dgellow wrote: post #107

I don't. I arrived to the conclusion that just collecting everything I find interesting doesn't make sense if I never consume the resulting collection. When I see something that could be related to a project I have, and I know that I will check it in the near future, I save a copy of the web content to OneNote. But mostly I stopped caring about bookmarking/saving everything that I find interesting.

100%. I used to have massive bookmark collections all extremely well organized. But at some point in time I realized it was a huge amount of effort and rarely go back and use them. For links I want to keep, for say education, related to a project I'm working on, or similar - I simply write them down in Inkdrop (notepad system of choice) under the relevant note/header. Honestly I don't often go back to those anyways,…

Self-texting you on Telegram is a great idea. That way you don't feel the pressure to keep it organized, you have a way to find it if you need it in the next few days, and you have some sort of historical records. That's neat.

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

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Post by tkainrad »

I have a multi-layer approach that I recently documented in detail [1].

To summarize: 1. Chrome Bookmarks 2. Workona 3. Notion 4. Native Bookmark Sources (e.g. HN, Stack Overflow, Twitter)

The large bookmark library you are talking about lives in layer 3, Notion. I too have issues with its Web Clipper. However, I came to realize that it is a very good habit anyway to manually curate recently added bookmarks. I do it about twice a month and usually, I can throw out a good portion of the new additions because they do not seem quite as relevant on second look. The big advantage of having your bookmarks library in Notion is that you can relate to other databases in Notion, e.g. projects, blog posts, ideas.

Another important lesson: Be careful not to do too much bookmarking. A large library can feel overwhelming and most things can be easily found again with a simple google search.

[1] https://tkainrad.dev/posts/managing-my-personal-knowledge-ba...

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

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Post by yboris »

winternett wrote: post #84

I just create a new folder and that pushes all the other ones to the bottom of the pile, and then I forget everything more than 1 year old... Forwards ever! :/ Seriously though, I can't believe it's 2020 and browser makers haven't updated the way bookmarks are saved, they should have had search functionality years ago...

Google Chrome has bookmark search now :)
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