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

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Post by jcul »

JamesLeonis wrote: post #201
rsolva wrote: 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 also use Firefox bookmarks. To tack onto this, you can also select multiple tabs and bookmark them all into a bookmark folder.

Another related feature I find very useful is you can right click a bookmark folder and open all the bookmarks in separate tabs.

It's useful for grouping a set of pages that you use together, but only now and then.

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

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Post by dobin »

The bookmarks i require are usually research related, therefore clustered. Just add the link into Trilium (or other note taking software), and add a few bullet points of description.

If i need it again, i either know where it is (part of which research), or can find it with the note search.

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

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Post by eitland »

blakewatson wrote: post #355
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…

I’ve been a Pinboard customer since 2010 and I subscribed to the archival service several years. But archival seems to have stopped on my account. I think I emailed once but never received a reply (which I’ve heard is common). I love the philosophy of Pinboard and I also like Maciej. That said I recently decided to roll my own bookmarks tool with Wayback Machine archival capability. https://github.com/blakewatson/boo…

Archival hasn't been working for months for me and nobody answers the mails (I've tried three times over the last year or so) so as much as I like pinboard.in at the moment I am looking for something else

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

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Post by eitland »

dotcoma wrote: post #391
akrymski wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do the same, but search really sucks. I miss Delicious, and tag based org.

What about… http://pinboard.in/ ?

Archiving stopped working months ago and no one answers the support mail.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

kybernetikos wrote: post #274
danesparza wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance

That's a good one, but I was thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Desktop > Google Desktop was a computer program with desktop search capabilities, created by Google for Linux, Apple Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows systems. It allowed text searches of a user's email messages, computer files, music, photos, chats, Web pages viewed , and the ability to display "Google Gadgets" on the user's desktop in a Sid…

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

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Post by kristofferR »

ecliptik wrote: post #96

I use Raindrop.io and have it hooked up to NewsBlur and ArchiveBox as secondary backups [1]. This way whenever something is bookmarked it's saved in Newsblur and published to Dropbox, which ArchiveBox picks up every hour and saves a local copy and to archive.org. 1. https://www.ecliptik.com/bookmarking-with-raindrop/

That's really neat, I think I'm gonna implement that ArchiveBox solution myself. Thanks!

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

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Post by MrVandemar »

rsolva wrote: 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 also do this, but I don't like my browser cluttered up with thousands of accumulated bookmarks, many of which I don't return to. So I export them every month, delete the embedded favicons, and then wipe. If I want to find something I just grep for it.

A bit primitive, but it works for me.

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

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Post by account42 »

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 sounds really cool. How difficult is this to set up?

How confident are you that this will keep your bookmarks safe? Losing indexed data might not be such a big concern for a search engine that is intended to re-index everything continuously.

I defnitely felt betrayed when I found out that Firefox automatically deletes old history :/ I guess they think that most users need to trash their profile to fix some obscure bug before that anyway...

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

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Post by account42 »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #318
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…

How mozzilla is not pursuing that kind of innovation in Firefox itself is beyond me. Instead they continously try to ape the Chrome UI and collect telemetry without permission so that they can give you "exciting" "new" features like colorways.
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