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

#35
I do, for frequent access stuff. Work-related things, personal apps that run in various places, frequently visited sites. The trick is to keep the number low, otherwise I'll never use them because they're impossible to navigate.

For reference material, I built something sort of vaguely like pinboard.in into a home-brew app that I run for myself. It handles search, a modified form of tagging, and a timeline-like view, and I get to it with a JS bookmark (tada) that lives in-browser and sends selected text as a search.

(The app itself is a ridiculous mess, having grown as a sort of cancer in a different app I wrote for myself that now does several unrelated things. Maybe someday I'll pick that crap back apart into something releasable.)

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

#36
I do especially because Chrome syncs them everywhere including my mobile phones, laptop and desktop.

It's also useful to bookmark in browser because the address bar gives priority to your bookmarks over auto-complete and history.. So it's much easier to access those sites too.

P.S. I organize them by folder, so it's most likely design -> landing pages -> dark -> bookmark or personal -> finance -> bookmark, etc.

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

#38
Yes, extensively - have them arranged in the Firefox bookmark bar with along with folders to drop down for categories like "search", "news", "projects", etc. For everything that needs remembering in a more tertiary sense I bookmark without folders but use tags. FF's system, similar to Chrome's, that can synchronize across to other computers and phones while keeping encrypted stuff in the cloud makes bookmarks a lot less volatile in nature than they used to be.

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

#39
Years (and years) ago, there was PowerMarks by Kaylon. It was great. Cross-browser, pretty good automated, over-rideable indexing -- space-separated words/symbols, very quick to maintain, with fuzzy matching. Rapid, "instantaneous", incremental search against thousands of bookmarks.

It's gone, now, and I've never seen its equivalent.

These days, I use an extension that saves a local copy of the page. As others have mentioned: Linkrot.

But it's not nearly as quick or convenient to return to a page as it was in PowerMarks. Although, the extension I use does have search -- manually triggered, and thereupon taking some time to initially build the index.

But I end up saving more "read later" stuff in it, as opposed to just reference links. So it ends up being a bit noisier, and size means I end up with multiple stores having multiple indexes.

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

#40
Yes.

I make sure I use a descriptive sentence when I save them.

They're useful to me because the people creating the pages don't know about SEO and Google fucking sucks at giving me the pages I need unless I use weird contorted search phrases or remember the exact name of the document.

I have 12 icons in my bookmark toolbar that I use daily. I have a few that I don't use very often.

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