Ask HN: What do you do for bookmarking?

#1

Post by steiger » Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 12:50 AM UTC

Hello, fellas.

What do you guys prefer as a bookmarking tool? Do you use your browser bookmarking? I've been searching for better ways to remember and organize some sites, and I'm unsatisfied with local bookmarking.

I've been trying del.icio.us lately,

I wish to know from you if I you know something else I can try to make my experience better. What do YOU use?

Re: Ask HN: What do you do for bookmarking?

#2

Post by DanielStraight » Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 12:53 AM UTC

Browser bookmarking with TagSifter in Firefox.

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#3

Post by bbgm » Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 1:06 AM UTC

delicious, pretty much since the day it started. Probably would not be using it that heavily without the Firefox plugin. Ctrl-D is one of my more used actions.

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#4

Post by chrisduesing » Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 1:13 AM UTC

I tried delicious for a while but it never really clicked for me. I now use Xmarks with Firefox and love it. It keeps my bookmarks the same on my several personal and work computers with different views for each, not to mention it syncs usernames and passwords.

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#5

Post by jperras » Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 1:27 AM UTC

A combination of Instapaper for PDFs and the like, with Delicious for everything else.

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#6

Post by nostrademons » Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 1:55 AM UTC

Browser autocompletion, with Google for the tricky ones. I visit the same 6 sites all the time anyway.

I figure that if I can't remember a useful keyword off the page, it must not've been a site worth remembering.

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#7

Post by alanthonyc » Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 2:00 AM UTC

command-B

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#8

Post by ams6110 » Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 2:17 AM UTC

I use InstaPaper for stuff that I want to "read later" as is its intended purpose, or stuff that think I might want to return to occasionally. I like that I can get to it from anywhere, doesn't matter if I'm using my local machine.

For pages I use all the time... I have a local HTML file as my home page. It's just a simple set of links organized into a few broad categories. Faster than navigating the browser's bookmarks, for me, though slightly more work to update.

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#9

Post by earl » Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 2:22 AM UTC

zotero for saving pages that I'll want to see again or want to be able to search locally

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#10

Post by Slzr » Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 2:32 AM UTC

bbgm wrote: post #3

delicious, pretty much since the day it started. Probably would not be using it that heavily without the Firefox plugin. Ctrl-D is one of my more used actions.

thnks for the tip