Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

Post by nix23 » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 7:10 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.

Post by bachmeier » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 7:12 PM UTC

Post by aquajet » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 7:13 PM UTC

have_faith wrote: post #234

I'd rather not use a 3rd party service. All I really need is the bookmarking UX already built into the browser but behind the scenes it captures the contents of the link (locally) and stores it against the bookmark. Bonus points if it asks where I want the bookmarks and their snapshots to be stored/synced to. Does such a plugin exist?

Post by tacheiordache » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 7:17 PM UTC

Post by aquajet » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 7:20 PM UTC

jrochkind1 wrote: post #124

frosted-flakes wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For posts, it's in the list of button links under the post title at the top of the discussion page. For comments, you have to click the timestamp first. Note that favourites are public and anyone can see what you added to your list. If you don't upvote spuriously, upvotes can also function as a private favourites list.

I totally didn't know/forgot that I can get a list of everything I upvoted from HN, but yeah, there it is on my profile! That could have saved me a lot of time in the past trying to figure out "what was that thing again I saw on HN last week?"