Yes. In a "folder" hierarchy in the built-in Firefox bookmarks manager.
I often wish for a better interface to move around in the tree though (e.g. filter for a bookmark or folder and see what's stored close to it) and some sort of aliases for multiple classifications would be handy sometimes.
Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#272I use them to make sure I can find the site again via Chromes autocompletion. I don' organize them and I never open the bookmarks view.
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#273Only for short-term. For things over a month of age: key words + web search is faster, at least for me.
That really depends. Sometimes, things can be pretty generic or the main site can be badly organized. In that case, I find that a folder in my bookmarks bar with links can be a lot faster. Even without using the bookmark, autocomplete in the bookmarks bar can be faster than a search engine.
In other cases, it can be a pain to get specific enough. If I want the English version of Chihayafuru Volume 1, but on Bookwalker, not Kindle/Comixology? How much typing am I going to have to do? Note that if I'm not specific enough, I'll get a bilingual edition meant for Japanese people to learn English as the first result. It's an imported physical book and not a digital one, either.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#274I use bookmarks a lot and using Chrome I sync them on multiple machines. Yet, I find that bookmarks management is a neglected feature in Chrome. I have hierarchies of bookmarks, and while creating a new bookmark it's very hard to find the appropriate folder, especially when I remember the name of the folder vaguely.
If any Chrome Developer is listening:
It will be amazing if there is some form of autocomplete to specify the folder for the bookmark. Right now on Mac, finding the folder in the drop-down is very hard. To find a folder, typing needs be fast. I almost never find the right folder, if the folder name contains a space. As after the space it starts to match from the first letter in the folder names if you take a brief pause to start typing the next letter.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#275Not in the browser, just markdown files structured like those github *-awsome repos.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#276Personally, I've stopped bookmarking everything I find somewhat interesting. Now if I do find something and it will be used in the next week/month, it's often part of an existing project or idea, and so it gets thrown in a text file that's versioned.
I started doing this after accumulating a huge index of bookmarks spread across saved.io, Evernote, Google Bookmarks, iCloud, Firefox, Opera, txt files, Google Spaces and the other dozen or so bookmarking/collaborative knowledge sharing platforms showcased on Product Hunt.
I'm surprised there's no digital equivalent to the Hoarders TV show. I suppose thousands of bookmarks are less impressive than a garage full of old newspapers and rats.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#277Sure. Chrome syncs them and does autocompletion. Some shortcuts are also used as icons on the bar, but autocompletion is the most important feature.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#278Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would have bookmarked your link :) except that it doesn't seem to index xkcd comics. I tried "xkcd duty call" and it gave no results [0] while Google lists the comic as the first result for the same keywords. [0] http://ohnorobot.com/index.php?s=xkcd+duty+call&Search=Searc...
I'd say XKCD is a special case. Considering the "There is always a relevant XKCD" meme, I think google has a pretty decent grasp of what terms relate to what XKCD comic. Not to mention the transcripts and explanations of explainxkcd.com.
Another possible explanation is that Google's search engine is exhibiting, due to the lack of a better term, a form of "transference" [0].
Google engineers are huge fans of XKCD as is evident from Randall Monroe's well attended talk at Google some time back. In my mind, his talk was easily one of the most attended talks, second only to Linus Torvalds talk on Git.
[0] I'm sure there is a standard term for software exhibiting biases held by its authors when making decisions on behalf of users.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#279Of course I do. Some of them neatly stacked in labeled folders, some of them just higgledypiggledy in the great unsorted. I have my bookmark history on hand to way back before the turn of the century. A lot of those links have died, obviously, but it's a neat historical record of my foci, foibles and obsessions over the years. My data belong either offline or on serverspace I control myself. There's nothing especiall…
Do you think that Pale Moon will live? I'm not really happy with firefox nowadays (not that I'm too much tied to it, a switch-away is as hard as exporting my bookmarks), it's getting slower and slower, sometimes uses all the ram and cpu on my Xubuntu laptop for no apparent reason, and I hate this recent WebExtensions thing. I want to switch, but I don't want to use sth. that's destined to die soon.
Why can't we have a Linux of a browser, that's built with large collaboration, is highly customisable, and completely focused on being merely a browser in itself. Kind-a webkit, but with minimal chrome... All that said, Xombrero my ex that I'll always miss.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
#280I use bookmarks at work, mostly as a big jar of deeplinks to wiki pages, dashboards etc etc - I do not organize them nicely into subfolders, just rely on my memory on how I named them and parts of URL. The more often I use the page, the shorter the keyword. I use CTRL-L and bookmark name to open pages all the time.