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Another alternative: Mozilla's FF Sync is all open source and can be self-hosted. It's easy enough. It still authenticates through their endpoints, though, so if you want to do it fully self-hosted, you also need to host their identity and accounts stack, which is doable but not for the faint of heart.
I found bookmarks to be inferior to just keeping tabs open. The other problem I have is that practically all the bookmarks I have saved over the years now point to broken links or missing domains; I could clean them up, but what’s the point? I don’t look at those links anymore anyway. I’ve come to terms with the internet, and life in general, to be too much in flux for a piece of information to provide value for mult…
All these syncers lack one important feature: local-only or otherwise visibility-managed bookmarks/folders. I don’t want my hentai preferences to be synced to my office and I don’t want all these company’s business bookmarks bs at home staring at me ruining my weekend mood. I only want to sync a handful of specific folders: documentation, tools, localhost:ports, and few common mail/yt/github/etc, which are actually s…
because it's pointless. just use different browser profiles for work stuff and fun stuff.
There is shared content there. If you lack it doesn't mean everyone else is. My music preferences are saved as bookmarks in my browser (among other places). I want to listen to the same music both at home and at work.
All these syncers lack one important feature: local-only or otherwise visibility-managed bookmarks/folders. I don’t want my hentai preferences to be synced to my office and I don’t want all these company’s business bookmarks bs at home staring at me ruining my weekend mood. I only want to sync a handful of specific folders: documentation, tools, localhost:ports, and few common mail/yt/github/etc, which are actually s…
Browser profiles exists exactly for use cases like yours.
I found bookmarks to be inferior to just keeping tabs open. The other problem I have is that practically all the bookmarks I have saved over the years now point to broken links or missing domains; I could clean them up, but what’s the point? I don’t look at those links anymore anyway. I’ve come to terms with the internet, and life in general, to be too much in flux for a piece of information to provide value for mult…
I don't disagree, but there is one use-case they cover well: quick shortcuts for the most used tools you need, particularly now that every desktop app is getting replaced by a web one. I keep updating and maintaining the bookmark toolbar in my browser, because i use it several times a day. Some people do that with some sort of homepage, but I find the toolbar quicker for me.
In my experience, using bookmarks for anything else has been an abject failure.
I found bookmarks to be inferior to just keeping tabs open. The other problem I have is that practically all the bookmarks I have saved over the years now point to broken links or missing domains; I could clean them up, but what’s the point? I don’t look at those links anymore anyway. I’ve come to terms with the internet, and life in general, to be too much in flux for a piece of information to provide value for mult…
I don't disagree, but there is one use-case they cover well: quick shortcuts for the most used tools you need, particularly now that every desktop app is getting replaced by a web one. I keep updating and maintaining the bookmark toolbar in my browser, because i use it several times a day. Some people do that with some sort of homepage, but I find the toolbar quicker for me.
I've used both but it gets annoying quickly. For me doing that by typing the first couple of letters, just one is sometimes sufficient, in the browser address bar is by far the most convenient and quickest. Like ctrl-t - type yc - down arrow - enter. Or in an existing tab replace ctrl-t with alt-d. Want to check my threads on HN instead? Just an extra down arrow away in the sequence. Want to look for history within a domain? type space then type another part of the address. No screenspace eaten by toolbar, no seperate window needed to go look for in bookmarks, single unified interface which also allows going to open tabs or search etc, no real limit on amount of entries. You should really give it a try. Granted it could even be better, it's not always flawless. There are also plugins for doing this with fuzzy matching IIRC.
No need to register, login or install anything - there's a bookmarklet on desktop and the PWA app on Android allows you to add bookmarks from the share menu. The extensions work on Android with Firefox Beta/Nightly, Mull, Fennec, Kiwi browser. You can connect to multiple bookmark stores, share bookmarks from one store to another and switch between stores easily.
A demo store with bookmarks: StoreID: store / StoreKey: 12345
Do people really use their desktop bookmarks on their phones, and how? Actually even on desktop I'm parking pages in tabs, one browser window per virtual desktop, one virtual desktop per customer, plus some links on the bookmarks bar of Firefox. That basically killed my need for bookmarks. I had hundreds of them and I'm still carrying them with me but they are buried in the bookmarks menu and seldom see the light. At…
> Do people really use their desktop bookmarks on their phones, and how? Sure. I routinely add things to Pinboard, and check it on mobile. I often look up things I found interesting, but don't remember the link. Finding categories of things using a combination of tags, and being able to drill down further by adding more tags, is very powerful and convenient. I never understood how tab pinning in a certain browser is…
^^^ This! ^^^
I use Waterfox for general web stuff and Chrome for Google Apps, on Linux and macOS; Firefox and Edge when I have to use Windows. I have 2 work laptops, and 3 main home laptops; all dual-boot 2+ OSes; and a desktop iMac.
It's a lot of stuff to keep in sync, and Mozilla's Firefox Sync is not much help because it does't talk to the Chrome-based majority of browsers. XMarks was wonderfully useful but it's gone.
So this is of significant interest to me.
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because it's pointless. just use different browser profiles for work stuff and fun stuff.
Arrogant ignorance is a giveaway of a modern developer. There is shared content there. If you lack it doesn't mean everyone else is. My music preferences are saved as bookmarks in my browser (among other places). I want to listen to the same music both at home and at work.