Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

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Post by mathnmusic » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 12:24 PM UTC

I decided to make my own system, but I wanted one that gets better as others use it. The idea is to find everything related to a learning resource (book, summary, author's TED talk, podcast) on a single page, asking with other users' reviews and famous experts' recommendations. Do give it a try:

https://LearnAwesome.org

It's FOSS, of-course.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

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Post by asdaljsdajsd » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 12:25 PM UTC

psv1 wrote: post #9

> I have more than 5000 bookmarks on firefox With the risk of sounding like someone on StackOverflow, do you even need to do this? I have <100 bookmarks at any time and regular bookmark directories with browser sync work great. I don't have a good solution for efficiently managing thousands. But I also can't imagine that you'll ever actually read all of them, or need to re-read most of them. It's okay to see somethin…

This!

Some long time ago i started adopting the habit of keeping my tab-count low to get more focus on things i need in this exact moment. I only work session-based and like to start things of clean every day. This then resulted in (obviously) lots and lots more bookmarks. But soon i realized that this is headache inducing too. Since then I try to think about if i really need this bookmark and also clean my bookmarks out every few months.

The few bookmarks i have get organized in simple folders like news, programming, books, , music. That's it. Done. Try to be minimalistic my friends! It's awesome!

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

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Post by exitnode » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 12:29 PM UTC

A little bit complicated but I organize my bookmarks in Markdown and put them on my website which is generated by Hugo.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

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Post by lucaspottersky » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 12:32 PM UTC

psv1 wrote: post #9

> I have more than 5000 bookmarks on firefox With the risk of sounding like someone on StackOverflow, do you even need to do this? I have <100 bookmarks at any time and regular bookmark directories with browser sync work great. I don't have a good solution for efficiently managing thousands. But I also can't imagine that you'll ever actually read all of them, or need to re-read most of them. It's okay to see somethin…

yeah. my bookmarks are basically for a quick access of things that i access over and over again, but that i can't reach out simply by typing in the address bar.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

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Post by dewey » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 12:33 PM UTC

I used to collect a lot of bookmarks too, I sorted them in folders in the Firefox bookmark bar and thought it's important to keep track of them.

After switching to a different browser for a while I just didn't port them over and realized I actually don't need any of them (Except maybe 1-5 shortcuts for sites I open often, usually they are just pinned tabs now).

I'd suggest to give it a try. I don't think I ever had the problem that I couldn't find something again and if it's important enough there will be a way to find it again.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

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Post by zorbash » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 12:40 PM UTC

I use https://tefter.io (Disclaimer I'm a founder)

Usually my workflows are:

1. Use the chrome extension to add something

2. Sometimes I add tags or add it to a list

3. If it's related to work I'll add it to my work organisation

For links I come across on Slack, I use the Slack app (https://slack.com/apps/AFBC4A147-tefter) to quickly bookmark any links included in a message somebody posted.

When it comes to bookmarking, plenty of options out there. For me effective collaboration was the feature missing from most of them and that's why we're building Tefter.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

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Post by michaelanckaert » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 12:41 PM UTC

It looks like everyone is building their own thing... So am I: https://trackr.sh

I have a couple of thousand bookmarks, which as some might say is a ridiculous amount. Except they aren't really bookmarks in the strict sense. For me they are webpages that contain useful information. Some bookmarks don't get opened for years but I know that if I ever need information on compiling SBCL I can click the tags 'sbcl' and 'compilers'. Searching the internet for that exact article probably wouldn't get me what I found 4 years ago.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

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Post by rwnspace » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 12:42 PM UTC

ChrisSD wrote: post #25

towb wrote: post #20

I keep the tab open until I read it... or just as likely, until I close it x months later. At least I won't have 5 year old bookmarks that I never looked at.

This way leads to madness. I have nearly 3000 tabs open. I'm trying to sort through them but it's a lot.

There's a Firefox extension named OneTab, it aggregates all your open tabs into a single page, closing every tab except the OneTab. I have mine pinned. That, or Ctrl+Shift+D in Firefox to bookmark all tabs. I tend to have 10+ tabs open myself but the thought of that many tabs gives me the heebie-jeebies.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

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Post by mvp » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 12:43 PM UTC

I use Google Keep for saving anything I find interesting online. There's a chrome extension that you can use to do it from the browser. It allows you to write some text around the link/text you are saving. I write enough text so that I am able to find it by searching. I also give one standard label to these notes so these are not mixed up with other Keep notes for tasks, book notes etc.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

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Post by gedazz » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 12:44 PM UTC

Besides pushing articles I want to read later to Pocket I tend to use the principle "if I cannot remember the name/address of the website, I do not need to bookmark or visit it". Browsers nowadays are excellent at autocompletion which kind of supersedes bookmarks.