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

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Post by aasasd »

> but it takes me too much time to do that every time

Good. It means you will stop hoarding bookmarks that you don't need.

An inherent problem with digital content is that it's pretty easy and cheap to produce (with corresponding quality), and almost free to copy―but still expensive in effort to consume and take meaningful action. You need to move the balance if you want to avoid piling up digital garbage that you won't ever conscientiously touch.

If you don't have time now to not even read the articles, but to just add tags, you won't have it later either unless you take a sabbatical or retirement to go through that mess. Filing the pages in an organized system needs a quite good amount of work in exchange for a chance that you at least can find them in the future if the need arises. As a minimum, it requires that you have some understanding of what the page is about.

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

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Post by matusnovak »

I use this: https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori

It's a self hosted web application. I host it on my homelab server. It will also archive the bookmarks so you can view them offline. FireFox and Google Chrome addons are available too. You can also import bookmarks from Pocket.

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

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Post by kayf »

Many thanks for your feedbacks!

What stays in my mind :

1. Try to not use bookmarks for long terms. Keep useful information in a personal wiki, website, ... It's probably the best way to remember information and to be able to refind them when needed.

2. If you still need to use bookmarks, there are lots of custom tools. I checked all of your submission and there is some very nice stuff. It all depends on your use on how you use bookmarks :)

I like how Toby allows organizing bookmarks per session. I'm gonna give a try to this tool, but with a limited number of bookmark.

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

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Post by ryanmercer »

I stopped bookmarking 99% of stuff the better part of a decade ago. I have these folders:

- Church: (links I frequently use related to my religion, such as the tithing payment portal and shared Google docs)

- STB: (stuff to buy) stuff I want to buy eventually but aren't immediate priority and stuff I think I want to buy.

- STB House: (inside the STB folder) stuff I want to purchase for a house when I purchase a house. Fiance and I plan to start looking as soon as she has an employment contract here (teacher).

Then I keep a few things on the bookmark toolbar not in a folder: uvere login portal, the YouTube subscriptions page, my HRA portal, Hulu, Netflix, Disney+, my training log (strength athlete).

That's it. I simply don't bookmark anything else anymore. If I want to reference something later, and think it will be in the near future, I leave it open in a tab.

If I want to save something for possible future reference I clip the page/article to Evernote and tag it how my brain works. Frequently this is Wiki entries (that get archived as the wikiwand version) and lengthy articles/blog posts. This actually makes the content useful as I can search an idea/topic in the future and find relevant stuff.

When I find a non-fiction kindle title useful, I open it in Calibre and print it to PDF, I then add the PDF to Evernote as well and tag it accordingly.

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

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Post by eftokay83 »

buboard wrote: post #24

i have made my own (because why not): https://pinplz.com/ . I tried to make it as simple as single-pressing the bookmarklet because usually i have nothing to add to the bookmark. plus it saves an archived copy

Exactly what I was searching for! Do you plan to create a business out of this or is there a chance for open sourcing/self hosting?

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

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Post by ChrisSD »

rwnspace wrote: post #38
ChrisSD wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Wow, thanks! OneTab has changed my life and also saved me about 1gb of memory.

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

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Post by majewsky »

Probably not what you're asking for, but I've recently started archiving interesting articles in a Git repository, especially those that I fear I would not be able to find again via search engine.

I store articles as Markdown (there are online converters that take a URL and extract the Markdown, e.g. http://fuckyeahmarkdown.com) with some manual cleanup. It's a bit expensive, which means that I only do it for stuff that I really really want to keep. I have about two dozen things in that folder by now.

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

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Post by dave333 »

My home page is a hand crafted page of links to the sites I use the most. Each row contains links on a particular type of site like social networks, financial sites, news sites, hobby sites etc. I have a simple script that makes it easy to add a new site, but I haven't added one for a couple of years. Bookmarks are still just a big list in a menu - sites I don't want to forget about, but not ones I visit often. So when I need to visit one, searching the list isn't too onerous.
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