simple: I email the link to myself with keywords in subject, message, etc.
Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
#182I keep the tab open until I read it... or just as likely, until I close it x months later. At least I won't have 5 year old bookmarks that I never looked at.
This way leads to madness. I have nearly 3000 tabs open. I'm trying to sort through them but it's a lot.
Yes, it's easy to ignore open tabs too. No system is perfect but I do this to increase the chance of me reading or watching whatever it is. I wouldn't let it go to 3000 so it sort of works for me, better than bookmarks anyway!
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
#183I use Notion too. I have added Notion Webclipper extension to all my browsers on, to save link I have created lists based on category i.e study, tech, life, etc. While bookmarking I just add the link to the respective category. On Phone, Notion has this feature to share a link to the app to save the bookmark. Before this, I used Chrome Bookmark manager. A pocket is a good tool too but I am fed up with having an individual app for every use case(bookmarking, todo, calendar). Notion is one good service with all the features that I need as a student, but their Andriod UI suck. You can hit them up on twitter and request the feature to add tags.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
#184There are 3 types of bookmarks:
1) Read-later
Something interesting you want to read. Items in this category should be automatically removed after a certain period of time, so it doesn't get out of hand. New RSS feed items would also fit into this category.
2) Save-for-later
Something you're sure will be useful down the road. This should be retrieved first and foremost using a powerful full-text search engine. Minimal tagging can also be very helpful. Lastly, it's critical these items are archived by the bookmark manager so you always have the content even if the website shuts down.
3) Todo
Something you need to take action on. For example, buy this product, try this new open-source library, install an app, etc. These should have optional reminders to alert you at a certain day or time.
Currently my system is a terrible mess: I email myself for read-later and todo but put save-for-later in Pocket. This is very frustrating because there's tons of bookmark manager options but none support all 3 types, most have terrible search, are slow, and don't have full-text search or archival.
So last year I started building what's going to be the Superhuman of Bookmark Managers:
It will be 100% open-source and available as a hosted service.
I'm focusing on the fundamentals: speed, performance, robustness. I'm using PouchDB, so all your data is 100% offline which makes it very, very fast. Of course, it'll support all 3 bookmark types, have full-text search and archival. It'll run on all browsers and platforms, including mobile apps built in react-native. It's UI is going to be fun, geeky, and beautiful sci-fi with multiple light/dark color themes.
If this sounds interesting, sign-up on the site — I'd love to chat with you about this.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
#185If 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.
How does Pinboard compare with Pocket? Pocket appears to be integrated into Firefox.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
#186i have made my own (because why not): https://pinplz.com/ . I tried to make it as simple as single-pressing the bookmarklet because usually i have nothing to add to the bookmark. plus it saves an archived copy
Cute. Does it search within the cached pages? What's the search performance for very large bookmarks collections (10000+ bookmarks)? Is it possible to import / export / backup?
none of the above. but i will try to implement them soon
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't necessarily have to tag them, if you pay a bit extra for full-text archive, then import your browser's bookmarks.
Are there any services where you can submit a URL and get a list of tags back curated by humans? EDIT: Looks like Pinboard does this already! Mea culpa.
When you try to bookmark a page, it shows recommended tags based on the other users' tags. So I can safely answer yes.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't necessarily have to tag them, if you pay a bit extra for full-text archive, then import your browser's bookmarks.
Are there any services where you can submit a URL and get a list of tags back curated by humans? EDIT: Looks like Pinboard does this already! Mea culpa.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
#189> but it takes me too much time to do that every time Good. It means you will stop hoarding bookmarks that you don't need. An inherent problem with digital content is that it's pretty easy and cheap to produce (with corresponding quality), and almost free to copy―but still expensive in effort to consume and take meaningful action. You need to move the balance if you want to avoid piling up digital garbage that you wo…
Digital content being so easy to produce and often of such poor quality is the best reason to use bookmarks. Trying to get back to the same tutorial I liked is impossible when searching “react firebase authentication” shows a hundred new poor quality articles being written every day. If I see a couple that might be promising I’ll throw them into my bookmarks to go through later. Because most of them might be trash bu…
Yes, in the past the web was able to self curate. People were creating links to stuff they found valuable. Google amplified these signals. These days it is too easy to copy-paste stuff and creating meaningless content is valued over referencing reference material. Google search quality went down.
What we need is a way to get Google and other search engines to index our bookmarks to figure out what people value.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
#190There are 3 types of bookmarks: 1) Read-later Something interesting you want to read. Items in this category should be automatically removed after a certain period of time, so it doesn't get out of hand. New RSS feed items would also fit into this category. 2) Save-for-later Something you're sure will be useful down the road. This should be retrieved first and foremost using a powerful full-text search engine. Minima…
Would love to know when it's opensource (so we can get it packaged for Cloudron). Signed up for early access.