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 scumbert » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 5:54 PM UTC

The bookmark manager built into the latest version of Microsoft Edge is adequate and inoffensive

My philosophy is that the bookmarks toolbar is for "tools" and things I want myself to visit more often (a page for a good habit or a project)

Other bookmarks are split into basic categories like "Media" (A/V content), "Vintage" (old/nostalgia websites), "Games" & etc.

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

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Post by gramakri » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 5:54 PM UTC

I use Wallabag - https://wallabag.org/en . It's a read-it later style bookmark app. It's opensource, so you can self-host it.

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

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Post by cagrimmett » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 5:57 PM UTC

I use Larder (larder.io) - it has extensions and you can easily pick a category when you add. Also has good search and RSS feeds for folders. I subscribe to a few of the feeds that I use as a "read later" bucket.

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

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Post by slantyyz » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 5:58 PM UTC

I use Wallabag (https://wallabag.org/en) which is similar to Pocket, except that you can self host it.

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

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Post by ajnin » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 6:00 PM UTC

I actually made a small webapp to deal with my bookmarks. It's unfinished so it's more a dump than anything at the moment. I can categorize bookmarks using a directory structure as well as tags, to deal with search more easily.

This was also a way for me to learn about browser plugins, to integrate a bookmark button in the browser's toolbar.

I intend to make it a public service at some point. For anyone interested : https://bmlite.net (most minimalst MVP ever :)) (I have ipv6 issues at the moment, sorry about connection issues)

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

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Post by tunesmith » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 6:08 PM UTC

There's the lightweight approach of just deleting all your bookmarks and trusting you will be able to answer any future question for yourself. This is similar to choosing to live without a long-term todo list, trusting that anything that needs attention will present itself to your attention.

The latter has never really worked for me, so the heavyweight approach is to have a why-justified system. If you're going to save a bookmark, it had better be referred to in some checklist or documentation attached to a long-term project that you are actively working on, and that you've sufficiently justified as being a necessary part of your long term goals or values. In other words, any bookmark worth saving should be able to be attached to some sort of actionable tactic.

And as part of that, all of these projects (and bookmarks) need to be actively reviewed. If you aren't regularly reviewing them, then just delete them.

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

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Post by tunesmith » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 6:10 PM UTC

hooande wrote: post #151

My problem with bookmarks isn't managing them, but remembering that they exist. It always seems faster to type words into google than to try to remember whatever taxonomy or tagging scheme. And I never go back to check for "something cool on the internet" at all. I made an app that shows me N of my previous bookmarks per day at random, loosely following spaced repetition. Seeing the same articles/conversations/tutori…

Tell us more about your app? What OS/browsers does it work for?

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

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Post by bhl » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 6:12 PM UTC

Most of my "bookmarks" are just HackerNews or Reddit posts that I've upvoted. Outside of those two, it's too inconvenient to save webpages. Think about it: with upvoting a post, you not only get one-click convenience but also automatic context (comments, subreddits) that almost beats tagging. It'd be nice if someone can generalize this; make any link or text on the web easily save-able and comment-able. I've looked into web annotator extensions like Liner or Hypothes.is but they don't provide I'd like. Why is the most common way to share a snippet from an article to screenshot it?

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

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Post by ggregoire » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 6:13 PM UTC

> I have more than 5000 bookmarks on firefox. I tried to add keywords and descriptions, but it takes me too much time to do that every time.

Create directories?

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

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Post by _fat_santa » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 6:29 PM UTC

I created an app about a year ago called fav.sh. This isn't for your "everyday" bookmarks but moreso for things that you happen to come across on the internet and want to save. From there it backs up the bookmarks to Github Gist or a local file on your computer.

Right now it works, albeit not perfectly and is available for Chrome only. I recently open sourced the whole thing and plan to release a Firefox version as well.

Check it out if you are interested:

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fav-bookmark-manag...

Github: https://github.com/sgolovine/fav.sh