Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by czam » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 9:03 PM UTC

I'm running a bookmarking site with a specific set of features at kntm.org and am using it since 2014, please join!

I also use OneTab (or similar) to clear up open tabs. I use Pocket just for sending articles to my kobo reader and Instapaper for read-it-later. Also using Materialistic app to quickly save HN articles.

I think the basic functionality of bookmarking will never be obsolete.

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by xenodium » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 9:03 PM UTC

https://plainorg.com (iOS/share sheet from Safari) - I authored this one.

https://braintool.org (Chrome)

Both powered by a plain text stores.

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by ghaff » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 9:08 PM UTC

robterrell wrote: post #210

pratyushmittal wrote: post #119

I (still) use Pinboard: https://pinboard.in/u:pratyush Reasons: 1. Archives - those tutorials and guides stay when the original pages go 404 2. API - I use the api to automatically post my bookmarks to my blog 3. Full-text search: this is very very useful when needed 4. Social Discovery: Search that niche website / app on Pinboard. It shows lots of other people who found that same thing as interesting. We can then fo…

I also continue to use Pinboard, for much the same reasons. Since 2010! I don't use the social features but it's nice to have a tool that's been constant and reliable for over a decade.

The same. I started using it after Magnolia died. I used to do link blog posts via a script that used the API but stopped doing that at one point.

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by danielovichdk » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 9:10 PM UTC

I bookmarked this comments page because it has a lot of great tools

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by bazmattaz » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 9:14 PM UTC

I’ve tried every app under the sun over the last few years but found myself not using them after awhile.

In the end I just email myself links and it works a treat. My emails are bookmarks are in the same place

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by TillE » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 9:14 PM UTC

bravasaurus wrote: post #265

bhaney wrote: post #109

I just leave the tab open forever

This is how I discovered Safari on iOS has a hard limit of 500 open tabs. Rather horrifyingly, when you try to open tab number 501, it asks if you want to close all open tabs.

It's strange to me that browsers - both desktop and mobile - aren't more aggressive about "paging out" unused tabs. I end up just restarting Firefox now and then when I'm not ready to do a full cleanup.

Even with the fancy mobile interface you really just need to store a thumbnail (plus the URL and title) for each tab, and even an older iPhone should have little trouble scrolling through thousands of tiny images.

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by derekzhouzhen » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 9:14 PM UTC

For private stuff I only bookmark locally. For non-private stuff I use https://roastidio.us

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by marcomezzavilla » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 9:14 PM UTC

freediver wrote: post #72

I use TinyGem (disclaimer: creator) as a reading list/bookmarking tool https://tinygem.org My public feed https://tinygem.org/tomcat/

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Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by BlackForestBoy » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 9:18 PM UTC

I found bookmarking tools often lacking a more holistic integration into research workflows that are not just about saving things, but also taking notes.

We’ve developed Memex to solve for that. It’s an offline first extension for bookmarking and annotating websites, pdfs and youtube videos. Also you can collaboratively curate and discuss them, and it has a mobile app to save and annotate websites. It’s availabe for Chrome/Brave and Firefox (memex.garden)

3min Demo: https://links.memex.garden/3mindemo

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Post by archi42 » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 9:20 PM UTC

For private use: I rarely bookmark anything anymore. Lots of info is easy to find (e.g. Arch Linux Wiki) and reasonable reliable. Also my password manager has a list of all accounts with associated URLs, so I can search that.

For work I have a wider variety of information. I'm often doing Pentests, so I read up on related research a lot. Since I can't keep every minor detail in my head, I bookmark interesting things in the browser; that's then backed up, but that's about it.

As a typical tech hobby, I run a few home servers and recently got myself an "always on" machine. Now I'm looking at self hosted services my family and/or I could genuinely benefit from. Bookmark sync between my work laptops could be nice, but Yacy mentioned in the top comment is insanely attractive - indexing (+archiving?) beats bookmarking.