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

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Post by warmwaffles »

santoshalper wrote: post #235
rglullis wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it failing for you? Would you switch to some other alternative?

Exactly, I hate the idea that software has to be constantly updated. That's how we end up with so many bloated messes that started out simple ( cough dropbox cough ). Pinboard is simple, and for my needs at least, perfect. If he kept it in maintenance mode forever, I'd be fine with that.

Ah yes, this is why Hackernews is now abandonware. /s

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Post by aiisjustanif »

maneesh wrote: post #280

I pay for raindrop.io. Their free version is fantastic and i recommend it

Raindrop.io at scale did not work well for me it was a lot more upkeep and the load times were a bit much. Also, the main pain point for me was the browser extension would constantly crash and not populate my tags or folders.

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

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Post by jxm262 »

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…

Ive never even considered something like this before, but its genius!

The offline caching sounds awesome.

Thanks for sharing

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

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Post by TheCowboy »

humanistbot wrote: post #208
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.

Do you or anyone else have thoughts on if Zotero would be too much for someone who doesn't need to write papers or cite documents? A large component of my day-to-day work is doing a lot of research and managing it for the duration of the project.

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

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Post by mark_h »

I recently started actively bookmarking pages again recently (after being an early Pinboard customer, but not a particularly busy one). I wrote a script to email me 5 random bookmarks every day, so now I treat bookmarking as a "like" button; something I find interesting at the time, and may want to rediscover in the future. I rarely use bookmarks to find something I'm searching for though.
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