What is the selling point of this over the existing bookmarks.html "standard"? How is it superior?
Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files
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Re: Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files
#122Given that the aim is to still visit the URL, this appears to be browser bookmarks with extra steps. I am not seeing an advantage to the external storage mechanism and the overhead it brings. Browsers have been doing an excellent job of managing bookmarks, you can tag and search for them from the address bar itself which is very convenient.
I've often wished I could find back-references and search my bookmarks as if they were part of my Obsidian database. This would help with that.
I keep bookmarks as a Markdown file so I can sync it using Syncthing. I use either Obsidian or KRunner (desktop-only, similar to mac's Spotlight) to open bookmarks. It's been working well enough for me.
The KRunner plugin I use doesn't have a comprehensive Markdown parser, but it works great with the format I've been using. https://github.com/andrewrabert/krunner-markdown-bookmarks Ex:
# Bookmarks
## Code
- [GitHub](https://github.com)
- [GitLab - Arch Linux](https://gitlab.archlinux.org)
## Social
- [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com)
- [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com)
Re: Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files
#123what i wish i could find would be a solution that would bookmark the page, store the full text of the page i bookmarked, with the option to highlight any important sections.
the closest i've found is hypothes.is but i'd love to find an extension that maintains this information locally so that i dont have to periodically auth to a web service.
Re: Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files
#124what i wish i could find would be a solution that would bookmark the page, store the full text of the page i bookmarked, with the option to highlight any important sections. the closest i've found is hypothes.is but i'd love to find an extension that maintains this information locally so that i dont have to periodically auth to a web service.
I want "save page to HTML" locally to friggen actually work
Re: Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files
#125I think this is going in the wrong direction. While cool URIs don't change [0], many URLs that you'd like to bookmark are not cool. So for bookmarks to be useful long-term you need to store much more data than just the URL. At the very least you need a timestamp to be able to find the resource you wanted to bookmark on the Internet Archive in the future. But better would be to save a snapshot of the site alongside th…
This feels like it relates to why for many Tabs seem to be the "new" bookmarks. Browser bookmark UX stagnated at some point in the 90s, but tab UX keeps improving. Especially on mobile devices, tabs keep screenshots of at least their last state. Users often have a general sense of time from their order of tabs.
I can't stand having more than a dozen or so tabs open, let alone hundreds. And I might not want them to keep state, but I could see how a "snapshot" bookmark could be very handy, so why not have "bookmark tab" automatically save the state? Or heck, let me drag a tab onto my bookmark bar. We already have the technology, but the UI around it has barely evolved in 20 years.
Re: Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
This feels like it relates to why for many Tabs seem to be the "new" bookmarks. Browser bookmark UX stagnated at some point in the 90s, but tab UX keeps improving. Especially on mobile devices, tabs keep screenshots of at least their last state. Users often have a general sense of time from their order of tabs.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I love bookmarks. They allow me to keep a long history of things I've found that are interesting, or useful, or otherwise important. I have hundreds of bookmarks that I may not be using right now but end up being useful years later. To me they're completely different purposes. Tabs are short term - for whatever you're working on right now. It's like a short-term cache, a worktable to k…
> I have hundreds of bookmarks that I may not be using right now but end up being useful years later.
I pulled up an old bookmark file that I had backed up on CD-R and pretty much every single link was dead. So at best, it was just a memory of something that I thought was worth saving at one point and might go back to someday. So more like what you said: "history of things I've found that are interesting" but not being able to use them to get the website (unless it's in Wayback Machine perhaps).
Re: Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files
#127My new bookmark solution is email, with some extra steps to get back single click bookmarking.
1. Use Raindrop and its browser extension (or mobile app) for saving bookmarks.
2. Subscribe to the RSS feed of my new bookmarks.
3. Use Feedmail to send my bookmarks to me via email, with the full scraped article text included.
Email is a durable format with lots of powerful tools and easy automation. My bookmarks and workflow can survive the death of any of these services. I can tag, search, and read my bookmarks anywhere along with all of my other feeds, newsletters, and notifications. I can also easily forward an article I've bookmarked this way, or reply to self if I want to save my own commentary on it.
Re: Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files
#128My new bookmark solution is email, with some extra steps to get back single click bookmarking. 1. Use Raindrop and its browser extension (or mobile app) for saving bookmarks. 2. Subscribe to the RSS feed of my new bookmarks. 3. Use Feedmail to send my bookmarks to me via email, with the full scraped article text included. Email is a durable format with lots of powerful tools and easy automation. My bookmarks and work…
The one thing raindrop does that’s magic is you can save all your open ios safari tabs at once. While I never go back and review the 300 open tabs I had open, i have a false sense of security of not losing something i had open.
Re: Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I love bookmarks. They allow me to keep a long history of things I've found that are interesting, or useful, or otherwise important. I have hundreds of bookmarks that I may not be using right now but end up being useful years later. To me they're completely different purposes. Tabs are short term - for whatever you're working on right now. It's like a short-term cache, a worktable to k…
> I have hundreds of bookmarks that I may not be using right now but end up being useful years later. I pulled up an old bookmark file that I had backed up on CD-R and pretty much every single link was dead. So at best, it was just a memory of something that I thought was worth saving at one point and might go back to someday. So more like what you said: "history of things I've found that are interesting" but not bei…
Weird. For me it's quite rare that I run into a dead link. I think I ran into one Youtube music video recently that was taken down for Copyright, and an old niche forum that went down. That's about it. The rest are still valid.
Re: Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files
#130Given that the aim is to still visit the URL, this appears to be browser bookmarks with extra steps. I am not seeing an advantage to the external storage mechanism and the overhead it brings. Browsers have been doing an excellent job of managing bookmarks, you can tag and search for them from the address bar itself which is very convenient.
chrome doesn't have tags for bookmarks though.