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 skinnymuch » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 2:24 AM UTC

thinkmassive wrote: post #98

Veen wrote: post #34

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I'd love something similar to automatically crawl and index every site I visit. I'm forever losing stuff. I know I saw it but I can't remember where.

ArchiveBox documents how to automatically archive links from your browser history: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Usage#Import-l...

Archive box can do authentication too. Haven’t checked if yacy can. Pinboard can’t. Pocket can.

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

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Post by cturtle » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 2:25 AM UTC

bhub wrote: post #170

I used to use pinboard[1] but since I started dicking around with self hosting I use Wallabag[2] for “read it later” articles and linkding [0] for saving links that I want to refer to later. Linkding is pretty much a self hosted pinboard [0] https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding [1] http://pinboard.in/ [2] https://www.wallabag.it/en

This gave me the motivation to finally setup linkding on my pi. Took all of 20 minutes and I’m absolutely loving it, thank you!

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

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Post by BooneJS » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 2:25 AM UTC

Not exactly what you’re asking, but I use Readwise + Pocket.

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

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Post by skinnymuch » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 2:27 AM UTC

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…

Archiving can’t do pages that need authentication. Which are frequently the most important for me. Either way the archiving does not work very well.

I have over 30K bookmarks and add multiple hundreds a month.

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

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Post by 9935c101ab17a66 » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 2:33 AM UTC

MattieTK wrote: post #360

I dropped pinboard.in recently. The interface hasn't had improvements in years, the extensions are all third party, and the API if you wanted to build your own is pretty limiting. The mobile interface is pretty poor too. I'm now moved over the Raindrop.io[1], which is another solo-developer outfit, but has had a lot of work put into it. It does all the same stuff Pinboard does (including page archiving but beside the…

I’ve moved to raindrop too. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty great, and it gets pretty frequently bug fixes and feature releases.

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

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Post by oska » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 2:50 AM UTC

jfk13 wrote: post #270

nso wrote: post #155

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Took me a while to parse the name, forlater is a verb meaning "leaving" in Norwegian. "Jeg forlater deg" = "I am leaving you"

Hah, to me it looked like an ASCII-fied version of the Swedish word verb meaning "forgive". "Jag förlåter dig" = "I forgive you".

This interesting variation might explain why the Swedes so easily forgave the Norwegians for leaving (in 1905)

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

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Post by Jistern » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 2:57 AM UTC

Bookmarks never worked for me. If I find something interesting I add it to an existing Google Doc, or create an new Google Doc for it. Google Docs are easy to search.

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

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Post by artdigital » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 3:01 AM UTC

I'm using https://anybox.cc to hold my work life together. It's a native Mac/iOS app (not web based like raindrop) and very keyboard shortcuts heavy

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

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Post by platz » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 3:04 AM UTC

bhub wrote: post #170

I used to use pinboard[1] but since I started dicking around with self hosting I use Wallabag[2] for “read it later” articles and linkding [0] for saving links that I want to refer to later. Linkding is pretty much a self hosted pinboard [0] https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding [1] http://pinboard.in/ [2] https://www.wallabag.it/en

I also used to use pinboard. I created a clone of the basics called Espial and enjoy that it serves my huge collection a bit faster when filtering:

https://github.com/jonschoning/espial

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

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Post by idealmedtech » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 3:04 AM UTC

When I find incredible in depth content that I plan to read later, my first step is always to drop it into archive.org, and then to bookmark the original link. That way if you're perusing later on and some links have died or been moved, you can always recover the content you want. Plus, it's archived for everyone else on the Internet which is a net benefit.

I donate to them yearly for being such a crucial piece of Internet infrastructure (in the historical, not literal, sense)