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

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Post by encryptluks2 »

discardedrefuse wrote: post #152

https://www.xbrowsersync.org/ Locally encrypted, open source, free with no ads or can be self-hosted. And most importantly, its not tied to any particular browser. With xBrowserSync for bookmarks and Bitwarden for passwords, I can browser hop as much as I want.

I recall in the past lots of people reporting issues with their bookmarks going missing with xBrowserSync. It also hasn't been updated in quite some time. My biggest issue, is it appeared to primarily integrate with the browsers bookmark manager... and once you had thousands of bookmarks in the browser bookmark manager, it started lagging. I prefer something with a native local service to search and manage bookmarks, like Shiori.. but I don't like Shiori all that much either.

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

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Post by octref »

I built my own. It's a Chrome extension that

- captures a tree tab structure (inspired by Tree Style Tab)

- has a text-heavy interface

- is keyboard driven (inspired by Vim)

- keeps data local or syncs to a GitHub gist (no server)

- exports to Markdown

I often hear from others they need something similar, and I thought about finishing it up so others can use it. But my fear is that I made too many personal design choices that nobody else would like, and changing those choices would make myself less happy (but surely make it easier for others to use).

If you are intrigued, here are some screenshots:

- https://imgur.com/a/D5CtJ6A

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

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

probotect0r wrote: post #143
jrochkind1 wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you pay for pocket or use the free tier? I hadn't heard of pocket before, but am looking at it... it's not clear to me what is limited in free tier/what the difference is. "Permanent library of everything you’ve saved" is listed as a feature of only the premium paid tier, leading me to wonder if that means your saved things disappear from the free tier after a certain amount of time?

I use the free tier, didn't even know they had a paid tier, and I have had nothing disappear. Edit: They have more details here: https://help.getpocket.com/article/929-pocket-premium-perman... Permanent library means they make copies of the articles and links that you save, so they are available even if the original goes down.

Copying, and making available for money, someone else's webpage sounds a lot like copyright infringement?

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

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

TillE wrote: post #306
bravasaurus wrote: post #265

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's strange to me that browsers - both desktop and mobile - aren't more aggressive about "paging out" unused tabs. I end up just restarting Firefox now and then when I'm not ready to do a full cleanup. Even with the fancy mobile interface you really just need to store a thumbnail (plus the URL and title) for each tab, and even an older iPhone should have little trouble scrolling through thousands of tiny images.

Firefox mobile does, it puts things behind an "inactive tabs" title on the tabs page.

In Chrome I use a tab suspender extension, in part because there was a bug that bit me alot where it would leak memory of you leave a tab active with a highlight. Don't know if the bug is fixed yet. Tab suspending makes my Surface Pro run better; seems like it shouldn't be needed.

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

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

obaid wrote: post #80

I have been looking into this lately as well. My problem is that even if I visit back those pages, I don't remember the context of why I bookmarked it. I have been toying with a chrome extension that enables me to add "annotations" to these pages and it helps me find websites based on my note search. It's far from perfect but I realized that I remember my notes / thoughts more than the website url or name.

In Firefox I heavily used tags, "tags are great, mini notes, super useful", but they're missing from Brave, Chrome, etc.

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

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Post by RF_Savage »

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…

That's an awesome idea. I'll have to look into this. Been looking for something like this.

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

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Post by blm »

hanoz wrote: post #352

Upvoting posts on Hacker News is my substitute for bookmarking things these days, as it's almost the only route by which I find stuff I wish to find again these days. I'm just (still) waiting on someone to develop the app which lets me search it.

When people talk of searching Hacker News they seem to use algolia: https://hn.algolia.com/. Does this help you?

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

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Post by Myrmornis »

ryankshaw wrote: post #70

I have the pocket extension installed in chrome. Not so much because I actually refer back to the things I have added to it but so that when I have wayyyy too many tabs open I can click the "add to pocket" button on a few of them and not agonize about closing them.

I've used Pocket for years and recently started paying for it because I thought I would like to use the indexing + search feature.
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