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Betula – federated bookmarking software for the independent web

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Re: Betula – federated bookmarking software for the independent web

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Post by rsolva »

1oooqooq wrote: post #58
rsolva wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox is actually decent for retrieving taged links, you just type * in the address field and it will only show you results from your bookmarks. It has become my second brain. I have written more about my use of the built-in bookmark manager in earlier comments if you are interested. My only real gripe with Firefox is that the mobile client lacks the option to add tags. So frustrating!

it is crap and you know it. it barely search the title. not url. not description or tags. which they add and remove from the add bookmark dialog every blue moon. btw i don't know which weird version your using because the current one doesn't have tags even in the desktop. maybe you didn't notice last random change

I have used this method for years and it has not changed at all in that time period. I put all my bookmarks in one folder, no hierarchy, and add the tags that is on the top of my head, and move on. I save new bookmarks several times a day and retrieve them within seconds. For me, it is a perfect system and has not changed at all while I have used it. And believe me, I have tried a lot of bookmarking solutions the last 20 years, nothing has stuck like this basic habit has.

I'm have been using the latest version of FF for about 14 years, first 10 years on Arch Linux, and the last 4 years on Fedora (the Flatpak version).

Re: Betula – federated bookmarking software for the independent web

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Post by tetrisgm »

renegat0x0 wrote: post #60
tetrisgm wrote: post #57

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I browsed yours as I like the idea of scraping g wha ti capture. Couldn't see any screenshot or figure out if there's an android app though

Sorry, no android app. Currently everything is through web interface.

That's a shame! I'd love to have a cross device way to save my bookmarks

Re: Betula – federated bookmarking software for the independent web

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Post by SpaceGlow »

TrickyFoxy wrote: post #11
SpaceGlow wrote: post #10

Any etymology other than "female virgin" in hebrew?

> A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch You can see that the Mastodon account is made in the style of the bark of this tree https://fosstodon.org/@betula

Thank you!

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Post by CPLNTN »

andrei-akopian wrote: post #27

What's wrong with browser bookmarks?

More powerful organization tools compared to browsers, but most importantly, I can switch browser at no cost, use multiple of them without worrying about synchronization, and access them on other PCs. I also thought it was useless until I tried it

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Post by dcsan »

haunter wrote: post #24

My main problem with bookmarks that I forget about them. I don't need a bookmark keeping service, I need one which would bring them forward when I look for something, based on context too. Something like which also makes a plain text searchable snapshot of the page? Maybe LLMs can solve that.

A friend is building service called memxi that scrapes thr page you bookmark and then gives u a rag like way to look up things later with LLM fuzzy search

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Post by sodimel »

kal247 wrote: post #50
sodimel wrote: post #35

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I had the same problem for my bookmarks, but I (kinda) answered it using 2 ways: Random link (when you don't know what to search but want to visit a (curated) cool link), and search (search in title, link, tags, description). On the paper it works great, if only you can tags those links and write a comprehensive description using keywords you'll remember. But in real life, it's something like this: https://links.l3m.…

I do something similar with interactive fuzzy search (CLI), and the search experience is quite good for me, even with limited tagging. Links contain a lot a useful information...

Yeah, if the search is not about something too niche I can find results using the search feature of my share links instance.

Here's a recent example; I searched for "search engine", and found the article I wanted to share ("A look at search engines with their own indexes" by seirdy).

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