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

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Post by hooande »

tunesmith wrote: post #197
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?

it's entirely for personal use. this iteration is an android app with a ui similar to twitter.

I manually save urls to a file in broad categories and occasionally import them into a database. It parses titles tags, favicons and some content. Some times I do different ml things with page content (lsi models, summaries, etc), but not recently.

Literally anyone here could make this in an afternoon

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

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Post by mcint »

I save URLs of particular interest in my command-line notes tool, and save urls visited with reckless abandon using OneTab, or now, by exporting URLs with AppleScript or directly from Browser Session files.

I think of Gwern's https://www.gwern.net/Archiving-URLs

Which gets part of the way to having a full index, and gives you offline searchability.

As noname120 mentioned, the "memex" extension indexes what you read, but I found the slowdown from indexing work interfered with normal browsing too much for me. Maybe batched, or manually triggered, indexing would work for me.

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

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Post by erikig »

I've been using Google Chrome's bookmarks and I'm pretty happy with the cross device capabilities.

I ended up creating folders to manage my workflow GTD-style. It turns out everything in my life has a URL.

- START (Workspace, Email, Calendar)

- INBOX (Random things that come up)

- TODO (Next Actions)

- PROJECTS (Things that can't be done in one step. One subfolder for each)

- OFTEN (Reference, Documentation, Utils etc)

- LATER (Anything I want to read later, I empty this every couple of months. This is just a procrastination busting hack)

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

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Post by beenBoutIT »

monadgonad wrote: post #152
nounaut wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google (and related services, such as youtube) allows you to use before:YYYY-MM-DD and after:YYYY-MM-DD to only show results that were created before or after a certain date.

I think you're missing the wood for the trees a bit there. The point is that there's so much on Google now - and a lot of it is effectively just crap data like pinterest posts - that it becomes increasingly impossible to find specific needles in that haystack. If I know at some point in the last 10 years I've read an article online that could have been written any point in the last 30 years, before and after dates do…

Pintrest seems to inappropriately float to the top of way to many searches.

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

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Post by winternett »

yboris wrote: post #128
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 :)

Yes, within the bookmark manager, but not on the main search bar... It should be much easier to use in that way... :/

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

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Post by mateioprea »

zorbash wrote: post #36

I use https://tefter.io (Disclaimer I'm a founder) Usually my workflows are: 1. Use the chrome extension to add something 2. Sometimes I add tags or add it to a list 3. If it's related to work I'll add it to my work organisation For links I come across on Slack, I use the Slack app ( https://slack.com/apps/AFBC4A147-tefter ) to quickly bookmark any links included in a message somebody posted. When it comes to bookmar…

any plans for a mac app?

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

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Post by anais9 »

I got addicted to del.icio.us in its heyday, so once it got acquired and subsequently sunset I wrote https://savecrate.com and haven't looked back. The ability to save anything (public/private) without having to weigh whether it's "important enough" and retrieve it quickly via search/tags (eliminating the necessity of messy folder/hierarchical structures) is indispensable to my workflow.

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

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Post by bhl »

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…

The type of serendipity you get from Google versus Bookmarks is not the same. Do you really want a singular company and search engine to determine how you surf the web? That was partially facetious but I do think bookmarking and googling are two different types of search.
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