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

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Post by Jarwain »

pmoriarty wrote: post #215
jrochkind1 wrote: post #112

Earlier 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.

My chrome history appears to aggregate my browsing across devices Anyways, so it should just be a matter of exposing that info

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Post by Semiapies »

pratyushmittal wrote: post #119

I (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…

It's a great service.

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Post by joebob42 »

throwaway23234 wrote: post #162
icy wrote: post #120

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Hah, you might like my project https://forlater.email . :)

small critical comment, if btc is not preferred, remove the option, or don't say that. That may be meaningful to you, but not to anyone else.

It was meaningful to me. To me it meant "the other options are better for me, but I'll take payment in btc if that's the best option for you. Here's the link for that"

Not sure what the harm is?

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Post by prepend »

mttjj wrote: post #38
Veen wrote: post #34

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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.

This is Mac only and I have no affiliation other than I like this developer but your request reminded me that he just launched this app: https://andadinosaur.com/launch-history-book

That’s a really genius idea. I also like the author’s pricing mode. I was fearing some stupid “$10 is just the price of coffee. This is worth 24 coffees a year for the rest of your life” and have a reasonable $7 purchase price.

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

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Post by gnuj3 »

goddamnyouryan wrote: post #289

I created yet another place for me to store all my own bookmarks: https://link.horse I mostly wanted to be able to categorize bookmarks within multiple tags, and easily be able to save them, using a bookmarklet.

Is this going to exist one year from now?

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

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…

Nice

I have wished for a while that browser would store the entire page of any bookmark you save automatically, and put a decent search engine on it. I wrote a script once to do it for my bookmarks, and it didn't even take that much space on my hard drive.

Your system could be a Firefox addon, kinda like what scrapbook used to be, but automatic. Even with a note system, and storing metadata, Zotero style, but without the need for the dual setup.

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Post by gnuj3 »

SoftTalker wrote: post #198

I used to use instapaper quite a bit, but when I figured out that I almost never went back and read any of my saved links, I stopped. If I'm not interested enough to read the link now, I almost certainly am not going to read it later. Sort of the same reason I don't take photos anymore. I never go back and look at them, so it's just a waste of time and a distraction from being really present in the moment.

You might change your mind about looking back at photos in 20 years and you probably gonna regret your current approach

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

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Post by hcarvalhoalves »

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…

Didn't know about yacy – interesting! Thank you
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