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

#123
I developed a product, Critical Context. Shared bookmarking and search for software teams.

You share a document with your team. E.g. "best cloud vendors".

Then for that document, each team member installs a bookmarklet, and collectively contributes to the research by submitting bookmarks, search queries, and screen shots.

Helpful if your team is collectively researching vendors, frameworks, etc.

Works well for my individual needs too.

https://critical.cx/

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

#124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN has a favorites feature?

For posts, it's in the list of button links under the post title at the top of the discussion page. For comments, you have to click the timestamp first. Note that favourites are public and anyone can see what you added to your list. If you don't upvote spuriously, upvotes can also function as a private favourites list.

I totally didn't know/forgot that I can get a list of everything I upvoted from HN, but yeah, there it is on my profile! That could have saved me a lot of time in the past trying to figure out "what was that thing again I saw on HN last week?"

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

#128
A few years ago, I started using a wiki as a sort of all encompassing knowledgebase. In time, my wiki took over even using browser bookmarks. When I found a link that I wanted to remember, I would include a link to it in the context of the entry. The upshot is that I always had context for what I wanted or thought about the link.

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

#130
I mostly use bookmarks for easy access to commonly used tools and documentation; however, typically, I suffer from the fact when I need to share a set of bookmarks, the browser support of export/import is really awful for both the exporter and importer.

I encountered it so much that I built a tool in the last few months to allow sharing of bookmarks natively in the browser. I didn't want to use a new tool to manage my bookmarks; I just wanted to enhance the browser bookmark feature with the ability to share bookmarks.

https://www.bookmarkllama.com

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