Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by JamesLeonis » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 6:29 PM UTC

rsolva wrote: post #52

I 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…

I also use Firefox bookmarks. To tack onto this, you can also select multiple tabs and bookmark them all into a bookmark folder.

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

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Post by stavros » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 6:30 PM UTC

ryan29 wrote: post #200

stavros wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I have 3 tech related subscriptions; BorgBase, JetBrains, and historio.us. I self-host everything , but I've never found anything that replaces historio.us. It indexes just enough to always get me a complete copy of the data I want cached and the search results are just right. I often have about 1 page of search results when I'm looking for old info and I can pick out the page I'm looking for instantly. I use it a lo…

Thanks, I'm glad you like it! I really should give it some love, but I'd need to do a fairly sizable rewrite for most stuff...

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

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Post by danesparza » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 6:30 PM UTC

miiiiiike wrote: post #179

I use Google Keep. It's amazing. It's one of those side tabs on GMail that you close when you first start a new account and never look at again. I use the web and iOS version (through "share") half a dozen times a day. https://keep.google.com/

You just wait. You're going to get hooked. Then Google is going to take it away. I used Google Reader daily until Google taketh away.

I'm not bitter, or anything.

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

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Post by vasili111 » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 6:31 PM UTC

I use Chrome extension "Save as Shortcut" (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-as-shortcut/f...) to save the link as a file on the file system. Works for me pretty well.

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

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Post by shkliarau » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 6:33 PM UTC

I’m only saving articles for later (and then videos directly on YouTube). The problem with bookmarks is going back to them (if ever), so I always tend to forget about what I’ve saved and then just google what I need in the moment. With articles it’s a bit different but I used to save a lot of articles to Pocket and then Instapaper, and reading them not too often. Now using Alfread that sends me quotes from saved articles as reminders, so that helps a bit.

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

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Post by AlecSchueler » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 6:33 PM UTC

No, I used to be super into bookmarks and a lot of the first code I wrote was to help me manage them and to discover new things from others via delicious bookmarks and things like that.

In recent years I've found that I only visit 5 out so websites with any regularity and everything else is as quick to Google for as to search my bookmarks for.

I've completely given up on bookmarks.

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

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Post by unethical_ban » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 6:34 PM UTC

Most of the things I find interesting are on HN or reddit, though I probably make about 20 bookmarks a year in my browser. I have Vivaldi sync set up.

I have an interest in building a "saved item" extraction tool for my reddit accounts that exports them to a bookmark file for offline storage. Same with Hacker News. Though if the tool already exists, please link it here!

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

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Post by humanistbot » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 6:38 PM UTC

Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #63

I use Zotero for this now. I have a bunch of sub-collections (e.g. technical, interesting, fitness, etc.) and when I see a webpage I like I use the plug-in to save to Zotero. Better than a bookmark because it also saves a snapshot of the webpage, and, I can easily cite it if I'm writing a document. https://www.zotero.org/

+1 for Zotero. If you are writing academic or technical documents and need to cite the documents you save in a standard format, it is a life saver.

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

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Post by pizzicato » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 6:39 PM UTC

I use Pocket quite a bit.

I've also recently cobbled together a CLI tool that lets me save discussion threads on Reddit, HN and Stack Exchange. Very much a beginner-level project but here it is in case anyone is interested:

https://github.com/PizzaMyHeart/filum

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

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Post by robterrell » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 6:39 PM UTC

pratyushmittal wrote: post #119

I (still) use Pinboard: https://pinboard.in/u:pratyush Reasons: 1. Archives - those tutorials and guides stay when the original pages go 404 2. API - I use the api to automatically post my bookmarks to my blog 3. Full-text search: this is very very useful when needed 4. Social Discovery: Search that niche website / app on Pinboard. It shows lots of other people who found that same thing as interesting. We can then fo…

I also continue to use Pinboard, for much the same reasons. Since 2010! I don't use the social features but it's nice to have a tool that's been constant and reliable for over a decade.