I use Wallabag on a yunohost server. I highly recommend it. Easy saving, offline reading, and sharing between devices. I wish it were easier to share with others, but I read some PR comments yesterday clarifying why support has bigger implications for the tool.
Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
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Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#162My 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 . :)
small critical comment, if btc is not preferred, remove the option, or don't say that. That may be meaningful to you, but not to anyone else.
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#163I 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 Google for this. It's really annoyingly good at finding previously visited pages.
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#164I use https://mymind.com
It's also a good dumping ground for any kind of interesting snippet, image, or whatever I find interesting. There are some neat little features for occasionally sorting through your "mind" and discarding unused information.
It's not free, but I don't mind because the UI happens to work well for me. It's thoughtful, well-crafted, and I'm happy to support them.
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#165My 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 . :)
For the record, just tried this with my protonmail and the response went straight to spam.
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#166Apple Notes is where I put urls along with just about everything else. The one and only thing I miss about Delicious is that it was great to see what other people were saving under a specific tag or topic.
I do the same, but search really sucks.
I miss Delicious, and tag based org.
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#167I have tried many different solutions the last two decades, but none of of them really stuck or became useful over time. I kinda gave up and as a last ditch effort started to do the simplest thing I could think of: ctrl+D to add bookmarks in Firefox, jotting down a few keywords on each entry. No folders, no structure, just a flat list and some keywords. A few months in I noticed how powerful this simple system was. W…
Good tip. I just recently started tagging my bookmarks because I have too many to easily sort.
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#168I use Evernote. It's the last "killer feature" of the platform. The software is too slow and clunky for taking notes (OneNote or Apple's stock Notes app are far better for this), even after the somewhat-recent update that improved performance, but it succeeds at saving webpages where other services fail. I tried to switch to OneNote's web clipper, but too often it could only save a link instead of clipping the page.…
Totally agree, application is weak. Don't understand the new listing and task management features. It just seems like a distraction.. why not have a proper table editor before you start adding new features. Also, the time to startup should be much shorter. I suggest they make a simple version of the tool, just list on the left (simplify the notebooks, and tags, etc). Get rid of the homepage. However, I just can't leave that clipper.
Even the simple fact that you can screenshot a part of the screen, annotate it, a toss it on the heap is so awesome. I don't worry about space, I don't worry about finding it. Search is really great on Evernote even picks up the text in images way..... before any tool was doing that.
Also, you can actually save the content of a page to a note (not just a link with an avatar). This is great for recipes that once you found it, you can never seem to find it ever again on google. Having a copy of that particular recipe with the right mix of ingredients I still have laying around. PERFECT!
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#169Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#170I used to use pinboard[1] but since I started dicking around with self hosting I use Wallabag[2] for “read it later” articles and linkding [0] for saving links that I want to refer to later. Linkding is pretty much a self hosted pinboard