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

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Post by kragen »

joshu wrote: post #141
kragen wrote: post #134

I use a text file in Git with one URL per line with commentary following the URL, with hashtags in the line. This makes text search through the comments really easy (especially including isearch in Emacs) but doesn't provide archival, thumbnailing, or full-text search of page contents. I don't have the collaboratively suggested tags from del.icio.us but what I miss more is the feed of other people's linkblogs. Each d…

FWIW this is how I saved URLs originally; when it got unmaneagable I built muxway and then del.icio.us. The notes became tags as they were often a single word. Hash because it was a comment. http://the.url/ #notes http://another.url/ http://third.url/ #word

Interesting, did factoryjoe know that when he proposed hashtags for Twitter? There weren't hash marks in the del.icio.us interface but I don't remember if muxway had them or not.

I still have an XML dump of my del.icio.us bookmarks that I haven't merged in. The linkrot rate is pretty high.

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

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Post by discardedrefuse »

https://www.xbrowsersync.org/

Locally encrypted, open source, free with no ads or can be self-hosted. And most importantly, its not tied to any particular browser. With xBrowserSync for bookmarks and Bitwarden for passwords, I can browser hop as much as I want.

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

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Post by segu »

TimC123456 wrote: post #101

I’m using Safari on macOS and iOS as my primary browsers. If I find something worth bookmarking, I add it to Reading List (the keyboard shortcut is muscle memory by now) which gives me a searchable list of offline—readable sites synced across all my devices. I’ve also found the History search really great at quickly allowing me to solve the “what was that ZFS HOWTO was looking at last week?” type of situations. I, to…

Exactly, I think friction is critical in this case. Bookmarks and native reading lists definitely have an edge with that. What you say about 'never going back' to bookmarked items is interesting, I've been feeling the same and despite trying many solutions I still have to find a tool that would help me classify, fill missing tags etc. to really organize my knowledge base better. I need something platform independent tho

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

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Post by nso »

icy wrote: post #120
pomatic wrote: post #94

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…

Hah, you might like my project https://forlater.email . :)

Took me a while to parse the name, forlater is a verb meaning "leaving" in Norwegian. "Jeg forlater deg" = "I am leaving you"

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

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Post by dizhn »

bradneuberg wrote: post #149

I think most people's "bookmarking service" these days, including myself, is to just have an extra browser window that has a million "read later" tabs.

I use the Simple Tab Groups extension. Some of my tab group names: "Good Articles", "Work but Later"

(As a bonus they get backed up automatically including my pinned tab which Firefox loves to lose.)

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

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Post by chillpenguin »

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.

I use BrowserParrot for this. Works really well.

https://www.browserparrot.com/

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

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Post by karaterobot »

> If not, do you collect web pages some other way?

I send it to myself in the @karaterobot (or equivalent) channel in Mattermost, which is the self-hosted chat program I use. This is exactly equivalent to sending it to yourself in Slack, except that free versions of Slack have a limited history, after which your archive will be lost (or, rather, held behind a paywall). The advantage of this method is that it's organized by time, and searchable, and you can save links, documents, images, notes, etc.

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

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Post by capdeck »

chazeon wrote: post #64

I use self-hosted [linkace][1]. It is similar to Shaarli but has a little nicer interface. [1]: https://www.linkace.org/

Awesome alternative. I've been using Shaarli for a very long time. Very stable, always works, everywhere works. Doesn't look fancy, but reliability is off the charts.
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