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.
one of best comment I have read.
Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
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#272I add stuff in FF Group Speed Dial [0] under a variety of headings. I try to stick to ~100-150 links in there, deleting entire headings once past their usefulness.
They're no good as a long term knowledge base however -- search is too limited.
[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/groupspeeddia...
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#273Raindrop. Every day, for all things. The snapshots of the pages it takes means that if I see something I can later say something, it doesn't matter who grooms the content meanwhile.
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#274Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is great, and is something I've wanted for a while. I use pinboard which is supposed to have similar capabilities (click 'search full text', 'search mine' after turning on and paying for 'archiving'), but I've never been totally confident in it (pages would change, and the cached version was updated to a 404 page), and ended up letting my archiving subscription lapse. I think google used to offer something that…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance
That's a good one, but I was thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Desktop
> Google Desktop was a computer program with desktop search capabilities, created by Google for Linux, Apple Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows systems. It allowed text searches of a user's email messages, computer files, music, photos, chats, Web pages viewed, and the ability to display "Google Gadgets" on the user's desktop in a Sidebar.
Discontinued in September 2011
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#275Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a paying customer, I would not recommend pinboard. Just look at some recent discussions on HN. It has been abandonware for years now.
I switched from Pinboard to Raindrop after not getting a response to pinboard support emails. I hope Pinboard’s creator is okay.
Same for me. Got an answer to my support requests months later.
I left long time ago (to Raindrop).
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#276I use Pocket to send pages to my RSS reader.
What I mean by that is if I see a page I want to read later, I need to have it in NetNewsWire to read it; otherwise I never read them. So I subscribe to my Pocket account’s RSS feed, so whenever I bookmark something in Pocket, it’s ready to be started in NetNewsWire whenever I get to reading my feeds.
I’m big on having one destination for all the things I follow. I follow YouTube accounts through RSS as well.
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#277Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is great, and is something I've wanted for a while. I use pinboard which is supposed to have similar capabilities (click 'search full text', 'search mine' after turning on and paying for 'archiving'), but I've never been totally confident in it (pages would change, and the cached version was updated to a 404 page), and ended up letting my archiving subscription lapse. I think google used to offer something that…
There's also https://historio.us/ - it's essentially same as what OP is doing but it's as easy as bookmarking
That does look pretty cool, and unusually for a SaaS has chosen a pricing I think is reasonable for the service (not everything should be $9 a month!).
Do you know if it does pdfs? That's a key thing I want in this kind of service.
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#278For a couple years I've been working on a personal Flask App that will collect and organize my SingleFile [1] downloads. Uses inotify to automatically detect a SingleFile generated html file and processes it into a database, where it also creates a screenshot thumbnail.
Been working great for me so far, and definitely help me improve my coding skills. One of the things I like the most is that it records the time I downloaded the SingleFile page, which means I can view a timeline of bookmarks. It is nice to visually review over the month what I decided to save, often as a way to reinforce what I learned.
[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/singlefile/mpiodij...
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#279The internet is far too "entropic" to trust bookmarks alone. This has been a clear failing of the web since the 1990s.
I've literally been downloading pages since then to have a local image. I've written various native code tools to extract text, index that and then markup the files with keywords and then create a local search engine back.
SO MUCH is shadow-edited, deleted or lost. It's foolish to rely on ANYTHING online for more than a year or even less. If it matters you must have a full archive.
When PDFs are referenced (e.g. scientific papers - I have 1000s of COVID papers), I download those and index them.
This is also why I never rely on e-books - I order a hard copy because in 20-100 years, it will ONLY be the paper version that will still be around.
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#280I pay for raindrop.io. Their free version is fantastic and i recommend it