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

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Post by ComputerGuru » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 7:39 PM UTC

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…

How does yacy handle paywalls? Does it use the cookies from your browser instance or can it use bypass services like 12ft and co?

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

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Post by jrib » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 7:41 PM UTC

stavros wrote: post #99

mitchdoogle wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

product looks very promising!

Some UI feedback: I went to check out https://historio.us/ and on my macbook air I saw the top of the green button "see our plans". Took me a couple of clicks until I realized I had to scroll down to click the real "plans and pricing" button that was off my screen.

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

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Post by looknround » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 7:41 PM UTC

I still fill up my bookmarks bar with folders and use Skrollo.com to store all my memes/fun stuffs.

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

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Post by lukaszkups » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 7:41 PM UTC

Similarly to other commenters here, I would like to share my approach:

- if it's an article related to my interests and that fits for the overall contents I share on twitter - I simply tweet about it.

- if it's code-related (e.g. github repo) - I just "star" it

- if it's something else - it depends what category it is, because I have two bookmark folders in the browser: "4 later" (so that if something seems to be interesting but I don't have time right now to read it) or "saved" folder where I just put something that I would like to have bookmarked (I've also have then nested year sub-folders (as I don't bookmark THAT often that this approach wouldn't be sufficient for me)).

- if something is very important for me, I simply send an e-mail to myself with tagged content so I can easily find it through e-mail search engine later - I have a dedicated e-mail suffix for this (imagine xyz+bookmark@gmail.com) and it automatically goes archived into "bookmarks" folder instead to inbox.

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

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Post by bravasaurus » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 7:42 PM UTC

bhaney wrote: post #109

I just leave the tab open forever

This is how I discovered Safari on iOS has a hard limit of 500 open tabs. Rather horrifyingly, when you try to open tab number 501, it asks if you want to close all open tabs.

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

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Post by ilaksh » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 7:44 PM UTC

tacheiordache wrote: post #247

Im using onetab. I setup a shortcut (ctrl+shift+z) and close all my tabs which I may want back at some point with that shortcut. This healed me from wanting to hold onto my tabs. I kill them off with onetab and rarely do I revisit. Just knowing it's there helps a ton.

Thanks for the recommendation. This is going to change my life.

https://www.one-tab.com/

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

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Post by stavros » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 7:45 PM UTC

jrib wrote: post #262

stavros wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

product looks very promising! Some UI feedback: I went to check out https://historio.us/ and on my macbook air I saw the top of the green button "see our plans". Took me a couple of clicks until I realized I had to scroll down to click the real "plans and pricing" button that was off my screen.

Ahh, thanks! The same link is at the top, but I'll see if I can reposition.

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

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Post by didip » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 7:47 PM UTC

I don't use bookmarking services.

In between:

1. Sending email to myself with appropriate keywords.

2. Writing them in Notes app.

3. and private git repo for my personal knowledge bank.

I got all my needs covered.

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

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Post by RheingoldRiver » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 7:49 PM UTC

I have literally thousands of bookmarks in Firefox that I use for their keyword aliases and manage by regex. But I don't think that's what you meant.

I also have several hundred "normal" bookmarks across several folders. Documentation, Hobby, "randomly cool," etc. But I definitely lose a lot of content that I wish I didn't.

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

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Post by jfk13 » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 7:50 PM UTC

nso wrote: post #155

icy wrote: post #120

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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"

Hah, to me it looked like an ASCII-fied version of the Swedish word verb meaning "forgive".

"Jag förlåter dig" = "I forgive you".