I haven't bookmarked anything in over 20 years. I just use my memory + search. Obviously bookmarking can retain far more than my memory, but my use of the web is deep, not wide (i.e. small number of sites, used heavily) so is easily handled by local site search engines.
Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
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Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#112I have started doing something completely different than using bookmarks. I set up yacy[1] on a personal, internal server at my home, which I can access from all my devices, since they are always on my wireguard vpn. Yacy is actually a distributed search engine, but I run in 'Robinson mode' as a private peer, to keep it isolated, as I just want a personal search of only sites I have indexed. Anytime I come across som…
Nice! How about getting it to automatically index your whole search history?
Not what you're going for -- you don't have a list of specifically opted-in 'bookmarks' to browse.
but I have often wanted "wait, what was that site involving X I was looking at maybe last week?"
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#113I do use bookmarks, but usually it's about crudely saving a session for easy access, to continue from where I left off the next day more than anything.
If I want to save a page for future reference because it's useful more generally, I actually have a special "References" deck in Anki for that, which has various useful levels of categorization applied.
Similarly, if it's an article I want to queue for serious future reading, I have a "Reading" deck. After reading (and potentially after having been converted to anki notes in the Main deck) notes from the reading deck go either in the Archived deck after reading, or in the References deck accordingly.
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#114I use my browser's bookmarks bar.
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#115I just leave the tab open forever
same
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#116I use DEVONthink to keep a local copy (WebArchive) of interesting pages. On top of obvious bookmarking features like tags I get good search, annotations, and preservation to name a few things. Preservation is underrated. I have quite a few pages that are no longer available on the web (even in various archives).
DevonThink is one of those rare old-school apps which support open-standard protocols, e.g. self-hosted (FreeNAS/TrueNAS) WebDAV for sync of archives between iOS and macOS.
> Preservation is underrated. I have quite a few pages that are no longer available on the web (even in various archives).
Lire is an RSS reader that can archive the full text of all articles, even if the RSS feed is limited. Allows offline reading and mitigates the risk of blogs disappearing. http://lireapp.com/
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#117I have been looking into this lately as well. My problem is that even if I visit back those pages, I don't remember the context of why I bookmarked it. I have been toying with a chrome extension that enables me to add "annotations" to these pages and it helps me find websites based on my note search. It's far from perfect but I realized that I remember my notes / thoughts more than the website url or name.
https://histre.com/ lets you add notes and highlights to your bookmarks, if that's what you're looking for. Disclosure: I'm working on it.
Neat. I will check it out!
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#118I have the pocket extension installed in chrome. Not so much because I actually refer back to the things I have added to it but so that when I have wayyyy too many tabs open I can click the "add to pocket" button on a few of them and not agonize about closing them.
Do you pay for pocket or use the free tier? I hadn't heard of pocket before, but am looking at it... it's not clear to me what is limited in free tier/what the difference is. "Permanent library of everything you’ve saved" is listed as a feature of only the premium paid tier, leading me to wonder if that means your saved things disappear from the free tier after a certain amount of time?
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#119I (still) use Pinboard: https://pinboard.in/u:pratyush
Reasons:
1. Archives - those tutorials and guides stay when the original pages go 404
2. API - I use the api to automatically post my bookmarks to my blog
3. Full-text search: this is very very useful when needed
4. Social Discovery: Search that niche website / app on Pinboard. It shows lots of other people who found that same thing as interesting. We can then follow them and subscribe to their favourites as RSS feed.Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#120My 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…
Hah, you might like my project https://forlater.email. :)