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Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

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Post by creesch »

9dev wrote: post #4

Aside. I completely stopped using book marks. Everything relevant to me will be an open tab, and closed once read or no longer useful; everything not immediately relevant enough to warrant an open tab will probably not be read anyway, or the link broken once I get back to it. This has made my digital life a lot less burdensome to manage, and it also felt freeing to drop all that unorganised baggage. To all those book…

I mostly use bookmarks as "speeddials" for frequently visited websites in my browsers bookmark bar. Just the icons, no text so it is fairly clean as well.

I then keep one directory for stuff that is on my short term future "todo" list. For example, when I am deciding on buying a product I might have multiple shop listings there.

So to your statement here

> To all those bookmark junkies out there

My response is that there is a middle ground ;)

Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

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Post by rsolva »

9dev wrote: post #4

Aside. I completely stopped using book marks. Everything relevant to me will be an open tab, and closed once read or no longer useful; everything not immediately relevant enough to warrant an open tab will probably not be read anyway, or the link broken once I get back to it. This has made my digital life a lot less burdensome to manage, and it also felt freeing to drop all that unorganised baggage. To all those book…

I did not stop bookmarking, I just radically simplified my routine. No (sub)folders, no system, just bookmark everything into one folder, lightly sprinkled with some tags from the top of my head.

Since I never know what I will actually find useful at a later time, I spend no energy organizing them. But having a simple record of my (want to) reads is super useful whenever my brain vaguely remember having seen or read something that comes up in a conversion/project, but not where and the exact name. Since I use broad on-the-top-of-my-head tags, I usually find what I'm looking for within a few seconds.

This strategy has lowered my barrier to bookmark something significantly, and reduced the mental overhead to almost zero.

Decades of overthinking my bookmarking habits and this has been by far the most useful system!

Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

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Post by toastercat »

skilled wrote: post #11

Why did browsers fail when it comes to bookmark management? I mean seriously, it is arguably one of the most important features for organising your digital life and the best that a browser vendor can do is “folders”? This has always baffled me. Who enjoys opening their bookmarks and seeing 500 links in an unordered list? Metadata has been a thing for how long now, and yet no browser that I know of has gone ahead and…

For what it's worth, I gave up on all external bookmark tools and went back to using Firefox's built-in bookmark manager. I enjoy that it's a CTRL+B away to see all my bookmarks, and that I'm able to sync it with my Firefox account.

Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

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Post by cyberbolt23 »

devsda wrote: post #30
bemmu wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In that case I search my browsing history or re-navigate to that thing with a search engine.

History search is not an option when my browser is mostly in private window. For me, Google has a mind of its own and has not been reliable in giving out related links even when I search with the exact page title from memory. Happened a lot with stackoverflow type sites. I use Firefox bookmarks and think it has a reasonably good bookmark manager with support for tags and custom keyword searches etc. Tip: In Firefox y…

In Chrome you can search bookmarks too. Start typing @bookmarks and it autocompletes search on your bookmarks. Same with @tabs to search through open tabs.

Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

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Post by sundarurfriend »

Having a first-class UI for bookmarks really does make a difference. I used to agree with some of the sentiments expressed in comments here - that bookmarking is a write-only activity, that just feels satisfying without actually being useful. Then I started using Zotero for my bookmarks, organizing them into collections, tagging them, adding descriptions ("Abstract"), etc., and I find that I actually go back to them a lot more, and find it really useful.

The UI browsers provide for bookmarks is pretty atrocious, and seems to have been the main reason I didn't go back to use them much - which I didn't realize until I had the idea to use Zotero as a bookmark manager. It has a lot of the features that Grimoire lists, including separate "user accounts" - I have a separate Work profile, for which I've created a desktop shortcut the same I do for Firefox [1], with its own collections and tags.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37953035

Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

cyberbolt23 wrote: post #34
devsda wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

History search is not an option when my browser is mostly in private window. For me, Google has a mind of its own and has not been reliable in giving out related links even when I search with the exact page title from memory. Happened a lot with stackoverflow type sites. I use Firefox bookmarks and think it has a reasonably good bookmark manager with support for tags and custom keyword searches etc. Tip: In Firefox y…

In Chrome you can search bookmarks too. Start typing @bookmarks and it autocompletes search on your bookmarks. Same with @tabs to search through open tabs.

Edge has helpfully copied Firefox's "awesome bar" in doing bookmark search and history search with * and ^, respectively.

Sadly Edge doesn't do tags, I initiate them by appending keywords to the bookmark name.

(I have to use Edge at work.)

Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

progbits wrote: post #15
duiker101 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is when I suddenly remember something I saw a month ago that is now relevant and I can't find it anymore. That's why I preemptively bookmark interesting stuff

This. I also edit the bookmark title to include a bunch of keywords. Finding an article I have only a vague recollection of on the wide web can be hard, but finding it in my bookmarks is easy. I was a big del.icio.us user back in the day, maybe self hosting something like the OP is the way to go.

Self hosting only makes sense to me if the bookmark search is integrated into the address bar?
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