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Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
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Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#292I get the feeling most ppl keep tons and tons of tabs open these days. Browsers keep having to reduce the workload of background tabs, and have even added some UX features like tab grouping and pinning. And then there's the success of tab manager browser extensions...
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#293I use Slack as my bookmark manager ;) Have my own personal Slack workspace where I have various channels for certain types of bookmarks(coding/emacs/history,etc). On my Debian box at home I have weechat with the weeslack plugin where my weechat instance runs in a tmux session 24X7 and I log everything locally to disk. That way I can just open up the Slack log for a given channel to find a specific bookmark in Emacs via search/regex search. Have Slack clients at work, mobile, and home, so it seems to work pretty good for me.
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#294For articles to read later I use the Safari Reading List. To store bookmarks I use GoodLinks (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/goodlinks/id1474335294) that syncs via iCloud and has iOS and macOS apps to store and display the collection. To catch any articles I may forget to store I use the Safari extension History Book (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/history-book-browse-search/id1...) that saves a searchable article list to return to later.
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#295With FF it's Tab Stash for me[0].
Then I export to Chrome when I have a period of using it as my main browser.
For portability, I use a public Telegram channel that I post interesting links to for later reading. Given the web version doesn't require to be logged in and has a search bar it's very good for accessing everything you have.
[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-stash/
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#296Earlier quoted context omitted.
+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.
I highly recommend it, even for this use case. It takes a bit to get used to in how it works and setting so that it works well for your given workflow. For example, I'm a latex user so I had to add extensions to zotero so it can output to bibtex. But again, it wasn't that bad. Once its set up and you used it a few times, it easy and super useful.
I use it not only for web bookmarks, but as my main 'library' for all my documents. Even random scanned docs or even funny gifs I will store in zotero because I can tag them and put in notes so they are easy to find later.
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#297I 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…
This is great! I use Feedly for RSS but didn't realize I could subscribe to my own Pocket feed.
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#298I use Dynalist and a custom chrome extension which uses its API to save links to a list. On Android I use an app which can send http requests to any address. I use that to share urls from browser etc to that app which again send that link to Dynalist.
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#299Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice! How about getting it to automatically index your whole search history? Not what you're going for -- you don't have a list of specifically opted-in 'bookmarks' to browse. but I have often wanted "wait, what was that site involving X I was looking at maybe last week?"
It would also be nice to be able to search through my aggregated browsing history on every device I use. Maybe I should open a feature request to Google/Fracebook to provide an API hook for that, since they probably already have all that information anyway.
Facebook doesn't share data out in APIs!
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#300I (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 use pinboard as well. Early user of del.icio.us, I exported it all to pinboard and paid a one-time lifetime fee. Too many old links are dead, but that's the nature of the web, and I hope waybackmachine can help with some of them (I never paid for the full-text-archive feature of pinboard, it would have been a good idea but it's too late now). Sometimes it definitely helps me find some old highlights that still lurk in a shiny way in my mind.