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Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 4:36 PM UTC

benrapscallion wrote: post #59

night-rider wrote: post #6

Pinboard is still quite active. If you need proof just go to /recent which is a live firehose and interesting to see what people are bookmarking. I use Pinboard and regularly export my bookmarks incase their servers are hacked/wiped/corrupted.

As a paying customer, I would not recommend pinboard. Just look at some recent discussions on HN. It has been abandonware for years now.

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Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by dontbesquare » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 4:39 PM UTC

I use Nextcloud's bookmark features via the YunoHost instance I self host. A simple roll your own solution of sorts. https://yunohost.org/ is a really cool project. I love what they're doing.

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by user00012-ab » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 4:39 PM UTC

I use http://dynalist.io you can clip anything into your inbox, either the url (default when nothing is selected), or selected text on the page (with url of where it came from), and it works on all platforms. Once you have your data in a list you can do whatever you want with it and curate it the way you want, search it, and tag it.

Also, you can export the data out pretty easily also, which may not be the case with other bookmarking services.

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by pomatic » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 4:41 PM UTC

My incredibly unsophisticated, but surprisingly effective approach, is to share by email with myself (e.g. mail to myname+bookmark@mydomain.com).

Mail rules can then file them, I can add any relevant notes or hashtags to the mail body at the time I share the link, and the chronological ordering is helpful. Imap search is usually 'good enough' to turn up a half-remembered link or article.

I have been meaning to add an imap script to complement this with something like a simplepage archive, but have never got round to it.

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by tenzo » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 4:41 PM UTC

https://www.instapaper.com

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by ecliptik » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 4:41 PM UTC

I use Raindrop.io and have it hooked up to NewsBlur and ArchiveBox as secondary backups [1].

This way whenever something is bookmarked it's saved in Newsblur and published to Dropbox, which ArchiveBox picks up every hour and saves a local copy and to archive.org.

1. https://www.ecliptik.com/bookmarking-with-raindrop/

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by johncalvinyoung » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 4:41 PM UTC

I still use Instapaper, though their mobile apps are not terribly useful, and very slow. Mostly I just use it to bookmark things--I read so voraciously that searching through 25 new bookmarks a day is way easier than searching through 250+ history entries a day, not to mention Chrome isn't indexing every page I've visited.

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by thinkmassive » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 4:41 PM UTC

Veen wrote: post #34

l72 wrote: post #27

I have started doing something completely different than using bookmarks. I set up yacy[1] on a personal, internal server at my home, which I can access from all my devices, since they are always on my wireguard vpn. Yacy is actually a distributed search engine, but I run in 'Robinson mode' as a private peer, to keep it isolated, as I just want a personal search of only sites I have indexed. Anytime I come across som…

I'd love something similar to automatically crawl and index every site I visit. I'm forever losing stuff. I know I saw it but I can't remember where.

ArchiveBox documents how to automatically archive links from your browser history:

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Usage#Import-l...

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by stavros » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 4:42 PM UTC

mitchdoogle wrote: post #86

l72 wrote: post #27

I have started doing something completely different than using bookmarks. I set up yacy[1] on a personal, internal server at my home, which I can access from all my devices, since they are always on my wireguard vpn. Yacy is actually a distributed search engine, but I run in 'Robinson mode' as a private peer, to keep it isolated, as I just want a personal search of only sites I have indexed. Anytime I come across som…

If anybody is interested in this, there is also a service which offers very similar thing: https://historio.us/

That's mine! Feel free to drop a line if you need anything.

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by pointlessone » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 4:46 PM UTC

I use DEVONthink to keep a local copy (WebArchive) of interesting pages. On top of obvious bookmarking features like tags I get good search, annotations, and preservation to name a few things. Preservation is underrated. I have quite a few pages that are no longer available on the web (even in various archives).