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

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Post by mendeza » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 3:05 PM UTC

I use slack to manage bookmarks. I was using Toby Chrome plugin, but after 1000 bookmarks, its search is really slow. Slack is awesome for personal use because you can easily search for links you written, and organize with new channels. Discord may be a better alternative, because there is no limit to how many messages you have.

I agree with monkeynotes that you have to be mindful on how much time you spend collecting bookmarks, I felt consumed at one point and unproductive because you skim, you save, and you find other links to the original link you are saving. Probably set a time limit to how long you spend.

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

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Post by RP_Joe » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 3:10 PM UTC

I use libre office spreadsheets. You can export them to xhtml.

One column for the url another for notes. I have about 10 sheets organized by topic. I click on the xhtml file and it opens in the browser and my links are all there.

Very flexible, easy.

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

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Post by mvip » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 3:12 PM UTC

I've been using Buku (https://github.com/jarun/Buku) for some time and I really like it. Allows for tagging, and even visualization. I normally use the web interface, but there are browser extensions and CLI available too.

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

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Post by psv1 » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 3:12 PM UTC

silon42 wrote: post #70

psv1 wrote: post #9

> I have more than 5000 bookmarks on firefox With the risk of sounding like someone on StackOverflow, do you even need to do this? I have <100 bookmarks at any time and regular bookmark directories with browser sync work great. I don't have a good solution for efficiently managing thousands. But I also can't imagine that you'll ever actually read all of them, or need to re-read most of them. It's okay to see somethin…

I have many bookmarks too (10k+ -- firefox is not very fast handling them). Most of them not needed of course, but there have been several instances I tried to open something in my bookmarks and the site no longer existed... so obviously bookmarks also need to store the last viewed site content)

> so obviously bookmarks also need to store the last viewed site content

Yeah, just save every page you ever open to disk. Just in case. Right? Also sync all of that data on multiple machines. But what if the syncing service disappears some day? Better ask for a self-hosted solution. But a free one. Which saves everything. Just in case anything ever gets lost. How much better life would be then.

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

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Post by aswerty » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 3:13 PM UTC

I built devmark.io a couple of years ago but it never took off - never went beyond a Chrome extension. It is a bookmarking tool designed so it didn't feel like you were collecting urls - you'd save them and rely on the search function (which isn't that advanced unfortunately - postgres full text search). I still use it myself but hosting costs about 300euro every year so it's a questionable investment from my own point of view.

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

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Post by kasperset » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 3:13 PM 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.

I loved pinboard.in and had the subscription with archival support for more than 5 years. However, the search "full-text" did not work all the time. I used to get some server-side error. As a bookmark only tool, it still works excellent almost all the time.

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

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Post by dgellow » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 3:15 PM UTC

I don't. I arrived to the conclusion that just collecting everything I find interesting doesn't make sense if I never consume the resulting collection.

When I see something that could be related to a project I have, and I know that I will check it in the near future, I save a copy of the web content to OneNote. But mostly I stopped caring about bookmarking/saving everything that I find interesting.

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

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Post by marcinem » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 3:18 PM UTC

mendeza wrote: post #101

I use slack to manage bookmarks. I was using Toby Chrome plugin, but after 1000 bookmarks, its search is really slow. Slack is awesome for personal use because you can easily search for links you written, and organize with new channels. Discord may be a better alternative, because there is no limit to how many messages you have. I agree with monkeynotes that you have to be mindful on how much time you spend collectin…

Im using Mailist App to collect bookmarks which are then composed in a weekly, personal newsletter. That makes me actually read then and not only store and forget :)

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

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Post by sfgweilr4f » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 3:20 PM UTC

Add them to a journal I keep. They become part of my day's activity.

I don't use the web browser bookmarks for "keeping" anything. Web browsers have a tendency to "misplace" them for all sorts of reasons. Brave on ios recently destroyed all my favorites I had on the empty tab screen when I recently applied an update. Glad I had them in my journal.

Project related bookmarks go in a file associated with that project.

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

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Post by afita » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 3:20 PM UTC

buboard wrote: post #24

i have made my own (because why not): https://pinplz.com/ . I tried to make it as simple as single-pressing the bookmarklet because usually i have nothing to add to the bookmark. plus it saves an archived copy

Cute. Does it search within the cached pages? What's the search performance for very large bookmarks collections (10000+ bookmarks)? Is it possible to import / export / backup?