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Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by tomfitz »

No.

I use Google Keep to store URLs, typically with some note, for example: * "Specialized Sirrus bike rear derailleur. Model number: DO20. URL: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0047D192E/ " * 2015-03-01: Visited doctor. They referred me to physio, and told me to read http://www.arthritisresearchuk.org/arthritis-information/con... for exercises/stretches to relieve pain."

Google Keep supports tagging and search, so I can usually find things. For things I want to read later, I either put it in Pocket or use Google Keeps' reminder functionality.

Chrome integration looks decent (save web pages as an image), but Firefox integration is lacking.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by d0vs »

derimagia wrote: post #194
mintplant wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do the same. Tangentially, I find Firefox's address bar autocomplete to be far superior to Chrome's (better partial/fuzzy matching and combination matches across URL and page titles). A bit ironic given one is the product of a search company.

Chrome has a flag in chrome:\\flags to enable partial matches.

What's it called exactly? I can't find it.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by kusmi »

haffi112 wrote: post #192
kusmi wrote: post #163

I used to, I now use zotero to save whole pages onto webdav, from there bunch of scripts peel the ads off, scrape the text, convert to PDF, store in cms and index for full text search on solr. Also hooked up Dropbox to do the same for one click archiving from mobile. Since Dropbox and the webdav are shared between my partners and I, it's a convenient way to build knowledge base. Experimenting hooking up Telegram and…

Are you planning on sharing your setup? This sounds like a great way to organize research in a group at a university.

Originally no, it was supposed to be a tool to help us generate IP and analyze patents. I'm considering peddling it to other biotechs on a word-of-mouth basis and see where that goes. To make this into a production ready service would require more effort than just me alone, so I'm still exploring options.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by tptacek »

jcrites wrote: post #57

I don't use browser bookmarks but I do use bookmarks through pinboard.in: https://pinboard.in/u:jcrites With a paid feature called an archival account, Pinboard stores an actual copy of each bookmarked article, kind of like your own private Wayback Machine. It provides full text search over these articles. I frequently save articles that I read so that I can refer to them later. It doesn't happen often, but once in a…

It also does fulltext indices of PDF files, which is pretty awesome if you read a lot of CS papers. It's become my cryptography research search engine for that reason.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by sah2ed »

nickpsecurity wrote: post #130
maneesh wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org It's been backing up the internet for over a decade

Oh, the one on Shark Tank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in4mAqHn_d4 What a treat. Too bad the longer one where you explain it got taken down. Anyway, although highly skeptical about the product, I'll at least give you props for turning down the final offer on grounds of who offered it. Most wouldn't. I'd never do a deal with him if it was about public benefit. Plus, seeing all of them loose their shit (esp Cuban's…

Seems like you posted in the wrong thread.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by rvern »

Smart bookmarks! Bookmarklets! RSS bookmarks! Awesomebar fuzzy matching! Along with bookmark keywords and bookmark syncing! Firefox's implementation of bookmarks is right next to Wikipedia and ad blockers among the crowning inventions of the World Wide Web.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by grafoo »

the thing that always bugs me is how to use bookmarks when working with multiple browsers. the various bookmark service platforms never fully scratched the one itch i was feeling => simply save a bookmark and let me add some tags to it.

right now the only browser based bookmark i'm having is a bookmarklet that takes me to my own bookmark store ( see https://github.com/grafoo/webdmp if you're interested.)

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by kusmi »

ravendug wrote: post #197
kusmi wrote: post #163

I used to, I now use zotero to save whole pages onto webdav, from there bunch of scripts peel the ads off, scrape the text, convert to PDF, store in cms and index for full text search on solr. Also hooked up Dropbox to do the same for one click archiving from mobile. Since Dropbox and the webdav are shared between my partners and I, it's a convenient way to build knowledge base. Experimenting hooking up Telegram and…

Sounds awesome! Have you ever considered turning it into a product/service?

I was considering piecemealing it out as Saas. The CMS component is heavily dependent on Alfresco, which is a bit of a nightmare to work with, to the extent I code around it instead of directly integrating the components. If I find funding, I wouldn't mind splitting this off as its own project (apart from our more wet-lab oriented work which has nothing to do with software). I'd need to payroll a Java developer.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by kusmi »

x0x0 wrote: post #180
kusmi wrote: post #163

I used to, I now use zotero to save whole pages onto webdav, from there bunch of scripts peel the ads off, scrape the text, convert to PDF, store in cms and index for full text search on solr. Also hooked up Dropbox to do the same for one click archiving from mobile. Since Dropbox and the webdav are shared between my partners and I, it's a convenient way to build knowledge base. Experimenting hooking up Telegram and…

That's a crazy (awesome?) level of effort. May I ask why you went to it? What type of knowledge base are you building?

I work in molecular genetics research, and I've noticed how disconnected subfields within the life sciences can be. For example, a classical geneticist working with yeast can spend their entire career oblivous to the fact that the problem they've been working on has been indirectly solved by a biochemical engineer working in the same building. This happens for a number of reasons, they publish in different journals, use different terminology, the relationship may not be obvious, etc. Originally, I only had metadata extractors and various NLP parsers specific to the bio/life sciences, but I felt that was too limiting and began to expand it. The backend which ties all the services is almost entirely written in Lua/Torch, and Redis. And everything is built around the Alfresco CMS which comes with Solr, and Mattermost as a locally hosted slack alternative. Mattermost bots report on new content (http://imgur.com/a/P3YK1, http://imgur.com/a/GTVEX) wherever it comes from.

There is too much information to stay on the bleeding-edge of things without serious commitment of resources, which start-ups don't have. My intention was to track the content a group of people go through in a day and visualize connections in the data that may not have been obvious before.

Essentially, it's meant for harvesting IP in biotech field.

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