Any etymology other than "female virgin" in hebrew?
Betul (with umlaut) is a common Turkish name as well, from Arabic, of similar meaning. Also name of birch tree and related things, e.g. Fomitopsis betulina for birch fungus.
Betula – federated bookmarking software for the independent web
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Re: Betula – federated bookmarking software for the independent web
#22Lately I've been more in favor of making notes with hyperlinks in markdown over bookmarks as I can search those better with vscode and will have more context to what those links are used for.
Re: Betula – federated bookmarking software for the independent web
#23Misread it as “federated bookmaking software for the independent web” and thought “Yes, a useful application of blockchain!”
Blockchain is useful in very limited circumstances. Namely, when: 1) The central party running the website accumulates value from its growing network but doesn’t want liability for their database being hacked and corrupted (eg having someone give themselves a lot of votes or internal credits), or prevent the fear that they won’t pay out (eg when PayPal froze accounts for the tiniest reasons, or Lebanese banks, or Can…
bookmaking != bookmarking
Re: Betula – federated bookmarking software for the independent web
#24My main problem with bookmarks that I forget about them. I don't need a bookmark keeping service, I need one which would bring them forward when I look for something, based on context too. Something like which also makes a plain text searchable snapshot of the page? Maybe LLMs can solve that.
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#25Oh nice. I have a static html page I maintain on my website. the simplicity of maintaining that can't be beat, but it would be nice to give other people an easier way of following that if they'd like.
ironically i didn't went that route because it would be a pain to add content from both computers and mobile... turn out i now think maintaining a static html or md page on a remote server is less work than dealing with all the bs of thise things. including the bookmark Managers built into browsers which are all garbage to retrieve links
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#26My main problem with bookmarks that I forget about them. I don't need a bookmark keeping service, I need one which would bring them forward when I look for something, based on context too. Something like which also makes a plain text searchable snapshot of the page? Maybe LLMs can solve that.
I solve this by saving links in Org Roam with links to other notes for related topics. Then when I want to find things, I can look at the backlinks for some topic note.
There are lots of similar tools that also support this flow; basically anything that supports note backlinks (Obsidian, Joplin, Logseq, etc.). I don't ever really use browser bookmarks, because I never found myself actually doing anything but saving links (I never referred to them later). I actually find and navigate to links I save in my notes all the time though.
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#27What's wrong with browser bookmarks?
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#28What's wrong with browser bookmarks?
I use bookmarks + OneTab. Seems to be the simplest solution that doesn't overload my brain.
On bookmarks, if you impose some logic and organization, you can actually deal with a large number of them.
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#29My main problem with bookmarks that I forget about them. I don't need a bookmark keeping service, I need one which would bring them forward when I look for something, based on context too. Something like which also makes a plain text searchable snapshot of the page? Maybe LLMs can solve that.
Same problem here. I have thousands of bookmarks and have no quick way to find out what I have. The bookmarks just get lost in the nested folders. I built a browser extension for myself to show all the bookmarks on one page, making it easy to access them and to search them. I called it One Page Favorites. Basically all my bookmarks/favorites on one page.
Edit: Also it’s the first time for me to try to do an extension for all three browsers at the same time, Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.
Re: Betula – federated bookmarking software for the independent web
#30My main problem with bookmarks that I forget about them. I don't need a bookmark keeping service, I need one which would bring them forward when I look for something, based on context too. Something like which also makes a plain text searchable snapshot of the page? Maybe LLMs can solve that.
Same problem here. I have thousands of bookmarks and have no quick way to find out what I have. The bookmarks just get lost in the nested folders. I built a browser extension for myself to show all the bookmarks on one page, making it easy to access them and to search them. I called it One Page Favorites. Basically all my bookmarks/favorites on one page. Edit: Also it’s the first time for me to try to do an extension…
Betula bookmarks can be tagged, so to the extend you can add relevant tags, you should be able to find bookmarks you are looking for.