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

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Post by TimC123456 »

I’m using Safari on macOS and iOS as my primary browsers. If I find something worth bookmarking, I add it to Reading List (the keyboard shortcut is muscle memory by now) which gives me a searchable list of offline—readable sites synced across all my devices. I’ve also found the History search really great at quickly allowing me to solve the “what was that ZFS HOWTO was looking at last week?” type of situations.

I, too, am (was?) a long-time paying Pinboard user, but Reading List is just so much less friction. I found myself never going back to look through my Pinboard bookmarks.

Reading List “just works.”

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

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Post by gxqoz »

simonw wrote: post #9

I use Pocket, then I have my own tool that exports my data from Pocket to SQLite: https://datasette.io/tools/pocket-to-sqlite

Awesome, I've been looking for something like this forever! I use Pocket a ton and make lots of highlights. But its search and archive features have been practically unusable for 3 years for me despite frequent complaints to support.

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

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Post by LanternLight83 »

pomatic wrote: post #94

My incredibly unsophisticated, but surprisingly effective approach, is to share by email with myself (e.g. mail to myname+bookmark@mydomain.com). Mail rules can then file them, I can add any relevant notes or hashtags to the mail body at the time I share the link, and the chronological ordering is helpful. Imap search is usually 'good enough' to turn up a half-remembered link or article. I have been meaning to add an…

I like this, and will be changing my mail situation in the near future, when I might take some inspiration c:

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

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Post by gxqoz »

arrosenberg wrote: post #85

I use Raindrop.io. Hits the sweet spot in terms of price and usability/UX.

I don't suppose Raindrop has a read-aloud feature? This is one of my most heavily used features in Pocket. Looking at Raindrop's features I might be inclined to move if it does support this.

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

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Post by causi »

Frankly I just want a progressive bookmark system. I want to be able to hit Ctrl+D on John Doe's blog site and have the bookmark keep track of where I was on the site. If I read the first three posts and then close the tab I want to pick up where I left off when I open the bookmark.

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

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Post by eddyg »

eirikvaa wrote: post #71
jimmySixDOF wrote: post #40

Also using Raindrop.io - it works great with Make integrations and the dev responds to issues. Good to sync between multiple browsers on multiple devices.

Came to mention Raindrop.io - great service.

Came here to say the same. I'm also a very satisfied raindrop.io user. Native Safari integration for both macOS and iOS is a huge plus, and the friction is low to put bookmarks into categories and apply tags when saving them.

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

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Post by and0 »

thearrow wrote: post #21

Just switched from https://pinboard.in to https://raindrop.io for this the other day. Migration went smoothly and so far the product is a bit nicer.

The suggested tags is what I'm really interested in, but don't want to pay extra for it. It'd be nice if a Chrome extension (since my bookmarks are sync'd there anyway) handled this with a nicer display but used the existing bookmarks.

For example, a tag of the subreddit would be excellent for all my recent /r/unixporn inspiration saves. Managing bookmarks is a hassle and why I usually don't bother or throw them into a "Misc" folder.

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

#110

Post by coastflow »

I use Evernote. It's the last "killer feature" of the platform. The software is too slow and clunky for taking notes (OneNote or Apple's stock Notes app are far better for this), even after the somewhat-recent update that improved performance, but it succeeds at saving webpages where other services fail. I tried to switch to OneNote's web clipper, but too often it could only save a link instead of clipping the page. Evernote also works on iOS.

There was an interesting comment on r/Evernote by a former employee who worked there about why the clipper works so well (link: https://www.reddit.com/r/Evernote/comments/fbf8an/comment/fj...), based on acquisitions of other companies, custom code for certain websites, and a willingness to test websites where clipping doesn't work and (eventually) fix them.

However, there are issues with clipping on desktop Safari (occasionally there are bugs for periods of time, until fixes are implemented in an update), and sometimes clipping does break for certain websites (though this eventually gets fixed). I also find searching can take effort to find specific past web clips, though I'm not sure if the services is actually worse than before.

Web clipping is the last reason I'm staying with Evernote, writing as a user who has paid money in an attempt to migrate notes to another service (then finding that the other service was inadequate for web clipping).

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