Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

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Post by undebuggable » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 11:41 AM UTC

A lightweight online utility to host them as JSON so I can edit them from anywhere and then export to Netscape Bookmark format. The specification of the format is probably the silliest one on the entire web [1]. Then importing manually the HTML to all browsers on all machines, sigh. Looking around for some self-hosted solution or established but necessarily lightweight online solution.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/i...

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

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Post by frindo » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 11:42 AM UTC

Hey I built https://www.linkdrop.co/ about 6 months ago to solve exactly that problem.

Linkdrop doesn't have any unread article lists. When you "save" an article, it queues it up to send it to you in an email the next day.

Since I've been using it I find that my actual bookmarks are things I want to save instead of just random articles. Makes things a lot cleaner :)

It's got a good number of users atm and things are running smoothly, it's also free. If you do use it, feel free to send me any feedback you have. I've been trying to find more time to hack on it and would love some more direction.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

#13

Post by shane156 » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 11:44 AM UTC

I have the same problem and have started using https://raindrop.io

Hope it serves you well

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

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Post by incognos » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 11:44 AM UTC

Tomte wrote: post #4

pinboard.in It's great (again). I have around 3.5k bookmarks, sloppily tagged, and it's such a great resource to have.

seconded... I love my pinboard. It's nice to have bookmarks, it's much nicer to be able to find them later.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

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Post by calpaterson » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 11:44 AM UTC

Well...I'm working on my own thing (FOSS)

https://github.com/calpaterson/quarchive

It's quite early but I'm able to use it as a near replacement for pinboard (including search but not including tags). I have circa 6k bookmarks so I feel your pain.

It's based on sync of your browser bookmarks via an extension. This works well because it allows you to bookmark on your phone.

Here are some features I have planned:

1. Show what pages link to a bookmark

2. Show discussions (HN/Reddit/Lobsters) about a bookmark

3. Full text search (including of PDFs), perhaps including the above discussions

4. The ability to additionally just record everything you browse (including full text)

Right now it works for me but looks a bit basic - I plan to soup up the graphic design once I have the MVP working:

https://i.imgur.com/5VdgGU7.png

I'm hoping to make it available as a hosted service at some point

If you're interested in this topic, have feature ideas or are even interested in working on it with me either comment here or please send me email - cal@calpaterson.com . I know social bookmarking is not trendy any more but I still use it a lot and pinboard is a bit limited.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

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Post by fifnir » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 11:49 AM UTC

I threw everything in a checkvist (https://checkvist.com) list and generously annotated every bookmark with tags, now I have bookmarks and attached notes and it's searchable with tags, it works really good !

I think this offers the exact same thing as the popular pinboard but it's free !

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

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Post by cycler13 » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 11:49 AM UTC

Tomte wrote: post #4

pinboard.in It's great (again). I have around 3.5k bookmarks, sloppily tagged, and it's such a great resource to have.

Another vote for Pinboard. I have over 12,000 bookmarks. It's simple, fast, and flexible. You do need a system for choosing tags or things can get lost easily.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

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Post by fifnir » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 11:51 AM UTC

shane156 wrote: post #13

I have the same problem and have started using https://raindrop.io Hope it serves you well

maybe I'm "that guy", but why does everything have to have thumbnails and icons these days? that's so much space that's wasted instead of harboring more information... we need more geeky, dense, info-rich UIs

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

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Post by mrisoli » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 11:53 AM UTC

I use Toby as a Chrome extension and new tab page:

http://www.gettoby.com/

I find it has some tiny glitches with drag and dropping to rearrange, but otherwise it's free and works pretty well.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

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Post by towb » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 11:55 AM UTC

I keep the tab open until I read it... or just as likely, until I close it x months later. At least I won't have 5 year old bookmarks that I never looked at.