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Pinboard Turns Eleven

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Re: Pinboard Turns Eleven

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Post by beardicus »

bachmeier wrote: post #21
thaumaturgy wrote: post #12

Pinboard is my secret weapon for those obnoxious lists of citations I sometimes get to spackle onto the end of comments on the internet. I've been on there since December 27, 2010 (Merry Christmas to me), and currently have 8,698 bookmarks across 1,544 different tags. I'd have a few hundred more if I could hurry up and transfer all the open tabs from ios safari. ...so I'm genuinely worried about those declining user…

> ...so I'm genuinely worried about those declining user numbers My story might be relevant. I only recently learned about Pinboard. $22/year isn't terrible, but it's just a bookmarking service. Free trial? Nope - you need to pull out your credit card and fork over $22. You get seven days to request a refund. (Will I actually get it? No idea who's holding my money.) He's happy to boast about competitors disappearing,…

> but I use OneNote, and Microsoft isn't going anywhere.

"I use Google Reader, and Google isn't going anywhere."

I imagine requiring a credit card up-front cuts down on a ton of automated spam, and this tradeoff is worth it to pinboard.

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Post by flobosg »

washicalendar wrote: post #32

Can you all share your workflow/use cases with this and other bookmarking services? I’m geniounly curious because the way I treat bookmarks is that they are temporary links I wanna go back to, so they all end up being deleted sooner rather than later. When I want to visit a website I just type in the website’s name in my browser and either let autocomplete do its magic, or just let it take me to Google where I tap on…

I'm not much into tags, but Pinboard has a paid archiving upgrade (https://pinboard.in/upgrade/) that allows you to search within the archived full-text versions of your bookmarks. That's how I roll mostly.

Re: Pinboard Turns Eleven

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Post by petercooper »

washicalendar wrote: post #32

Can you all share your workflow/use cases with this and other bookmarking services? I’m geniounly curious because the way I treat bookmarks is that they are temporary links I wanna go back to, so they all end up being deleted sooner rather than later. When I want to visit a website I just type in the website’s name in my browser and either let autocomplete do its magic, or just let it take me to Google where I tap on…

I don't use Pinboard (yet) but I have my own system of many thousands of bookmarks, and the reason is that I can't always remember stuff.

So if I see, say, a good online tool for checking an email for spam-like features, I might bookmark that with tags of 'email', 'spam', etc. Then if in future I don't need to Google "email spam tool" and find 1001 irrelevant things, I can just search my bookmarks instead and find that it was https://spamcheck.postmarkapp.com/ (I just did this very search as I couldn't remember what that tool was called).

Pretty much every valuable tool or site I've ever seen is organized in such a way that I can bring it up on a second's notice.

I also can bring up things I once thought were neat and that I've totally forgotten about just by searching for a tag.

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Post by chris_st »

washicalendar wrote: post #32

Can you all share your workflow/use cases with this and other bookmarking services? I’m geniounly curious because the way I treat bookmarks is that they are temporary links I wanna go back to, so they all end up being deleted sooner rather than later. When I want to visit a website I just type in the website’s name in my browser and either let autocomplete do its magic, or just let it take me to Google where I tap on…

I use kind of like my own personal Stack Overflow. I tag stuff with several (hopefully memorable) tags, and when I can't remember how to (whatever), I search and usually find an article which I thought was helpful enough at the time. Yup, I could google it too, but as you know, sometimes info is out of date, wrong, etc. I keep the good ones.

I also bookmark stuff I want to get back to; for instance, I do eventually want to start an SaaS, so I've got a lot of 'business', 'marketing', etc. links.

At work once, someone mentioned some particular technology and I said, "I think I have some links for that!" His office-mate promptly said, "You have a link for everything!" :-)

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Post by wexxy »

washicalendar wrote: post #32

Can you all share your workflow/use cases with this and other bookmarking services? I’m geniounly curious because the way I treat bookmarks is that they are temporary links I wanna go back to, so they all end up being deleted sooner rather than later. When I want to visit a website I just type in the website’s name in my browser and either let autocomplete do its magic, or just let it take me to Google where I tap on…

Mostly I save ideas for projects or personal development things that I need to do a more "deep read" of (this also allows me to tag it for that purpose, and when I want to go back to something I've worked on I can find references I've used for specific projects that I may not have saved elsewhere), things I've read that I might want to reference later/thought was a good read or interesting and tag it with the relevant stuff. Mostly I just use it as an instapaper backup, where I have it automatically save my Archived stories and it tags it with a "tagme" tag that I go through once a week or so.

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Post by truculent »

mcherm wrote: post #38
thaumaturgy wrote: post #12

Pinboard is my secret weapon for those obnoxious lists of citations I sometimes get to spackle onto the end of comments on the internet. I've been on there since December 27, 2010 (Merry Christmas to me), and currently have 8,698 bookmarks across 1,544 different tags. I'd have a few hundred more if I could hurry up and transfer all the open tabs from ios safari. ...so I'm genuinely worried about those declining user…

> currently have 8,698 bookmarks across 1,544 different tags I'm at 17,614 bookmarks 2,530 tags. And it's incredibly valuable to be able to go back and find things, even things I bookmarked and categorized a long time ago. > so I'm genuinely worried about those declining user numbers. I agree. In fact, that was the second thing I noticed, right after the declining revenue numbers. Earlier this year I went ahead and p…

If you read his 10 year post he mentions the drop in subscribers is due to his neglecting much needed maintainence and feature additions while working on other commitments (such as The Great Slate). Having made the requisite upgrades and so on, he is now, presumably, able to devote more time to these issues.

Re: Pinboard Turns Eleven

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Post by bachmeier »

cpach wrote: post #36
bachmeier wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> ...so I'm genuinely worried about those declining user numbers My story might be relevant. I only recently learned about Pinboard. $22/year isn't terrible, but it's just a bookmarking service. Free trial? Nope - you need to pull out your credit card and fork over $22. You get seven days to request a refund. (Will I actually get it? No idea who's holding my money.) He's happy to boast about competitors disappearing,…

To me it’s definitely worth the price. Dunno why he doesn’t do trials though. Maybe it’s not worth the hassle? Those interested in the service can get a good feeling for it by looking at the product tour and recent bookmarks. And if you sign up and don’t like it then $22 is not that much money[1]. (No idea if he does refunds or not.) [1] In a Western country that is. I know $22 can be a lot of money depending on the…

> And if you sign up and don’t like it then $22 is not that much money[1].

??

I'm not giving $22 to someone I don't know and then saying, "Well the service sucks, but it's not much money." He claims to give refunds, but the time cost for me - assuming I actually get it - would be far more than $22. Again, this is 2020, the world has moved on from this type of business model.

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Post by thaumaturgy »

dna_polymerase wrote: post #13
thaumaturgy wrote: post #12

Pinboard is my secret weapon for those obnoxious lists of citations I sometimes get to spackle onto the end of comments on the internet. I've been on there since December 27, 2010 (Merry Christmas to me), and currently have 8,698 bookmarks across 1,544 different tags. I'd have a few hundred more if I could hurry up and transfer all the open tabs from ios safari. ...so I'm genuinely worried about those declining user…

I can recommend PushPin on iOS for that, it's another ten bucks (once) but well worth it if you are constantly on iOS devices and need Pinboard.

Nice! Thank you.

Re: Pinboard Turns Eleven

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Post by tokamak-teapot »

washicalendar wrote: post #32

Can you all share your workflow/use cases with this and other bookmarking services? I’m geniounly curious because the way I treat bookmarks is that they are temporary links I wanna go back to, so they all end up being deleted sooner rather than later. When I want to visit a website I just type in the website’s name in my browser and either let autocomplete do its magic, or just let it take me to Google where I tap on…

I don't treat bookmarks as a list of sites. I treat them as a list of jumping-off points for any kind of resource whatsoever.

Everything I come across that I might want to be able to find my way back to goes into Pinboard as a bookmark.

The full-text indexing feature means it's my own personal search engine of (most things) I've ever seen. I imported my previous bookmarks, which go back to 1994.

Everything I come across that I will likely want to go back to and digest later goes into Pinboard as a bookmark set to 'unread'.

When I have some time to relax, catch up, and read, I open my list of unread bookmarks and work backwards. Or I skip back a month, or a year, or several. It's amazing what I'm reminded of. Sometimes I decide I don't care any more and delete or just keep links as bookmarks, but more often than not I'll go and read whatever it was I'd left as a gift for future me.

Re: Pinboard Turns Eleven

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Post by jermier »

If I have the time, I like to open up /recent[0] to see what's in there. /popular[1] is good too, but with /recent you usually find some obscure less popular (but still good) link that always surprises me. I am glad the Internet still has little rabbit-holes like this that you can get lost in.

[0] https://pinboard.in/recent/

[1] https://pinboard.in/popular/

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