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

#331
Yes and depending on what.

- Notable things that are urgent gets emailed to myself.

- Sites and pages get bookmarked in the browser

- Notes and tasks are added directly into an extension like Notion [0] or Taskade [1] or Pocket [2] and synced to all my devices

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[0] - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/notion-web-clipper...

[1] - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/taskade-team-tasks...

[2] - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-to-pocket/nil...

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

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post #52

I have tried many different solutions the last two decades, but none of of them really stuck or became useful over time. I kinda gave up and as a last ditch effort started to do the simplest thing I could think of: ctrl+D to add bookmarks in Firefox, jotting down a few keywords on each entry. No folders, no structure, just a flat list and some keywords. A few months in I noticed how powerful this simple system was. W…

I do this as well, and then Firefox Sync ensures I have the same bookmarks on laptop and mobile.

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

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post #52

I have tried many different solutions the last two decades, but none of of them really stuck or became useful over time. I kinda gave up and as a last ditch effort started to do the simplest thing I could think of: ctrl+D to add bookmarks in Firefox, jotting down a few keywords on each entry. No folders, no structure, just a flat list and some keywords. A few months in I noticed how powerful this simple system was. W…

I do this, as well as having an automated menu with 10 last bookmarks to continue reading things I just bookmarked

How do you accomplish this?

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

#335
If it's something I want to read and then be done with it, I keep the tab open.

If it's something I may want to come back to, or something that I'd be sad if it disappeared from the web, I save it to a synced folder using the SingleFile extension which inlines all content into a single HTML file.

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

#336
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…

What a good idea. A search engine like Kagi could support importing your existing bookmarks as a custom lense.

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

#338
post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I use BrowserParrot for this. Works really well. https://www.browserparrot.com/

> Right now we only support MacOS

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

#339
Not sure if you noticed this bubble up on HN earlier in the week but this might be helpful.

It's not bookmarking as much as site-marking, and then having your own search engine based on that collection.

Figured it was worth mentioning.

https://github.com/brave/goggles-quickstart/blob/main/gettin...

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

#340

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…

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