Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

#1

Post by indus » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 5:41 PM UTC

Many bookmarking tools were created, and then most got sucked into the tech's "how do I make more money cycle?" and died.

My favorite was delicious, and then Pocket. Even Google had a bookmarking extension.

Is saving links no longer considered fashionable?

Yes, AI, but how does it go back to my favorite that I need to either read or revisit?

Should I vibe code one?

Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

#2

Post by valdrinNereth » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 5:55 PM UTC

Honestly, since the first day I switched to Firefox I'm just saving to it's own bookmarks. Whenever I wanna check those websites I just open it either from my desktop or my laptop(s), since it's syncing in between my devices.

I don't know if there's much people using bookmarking tools, but to help you see another perspective, as a person who finds bookmarking tools not necessary I'd say it wouldn't worth your time to vibe code one. Also just for "vibe coding", be really really careful if you're gonna make it a "product" because you'll definitely face rough situations through it.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

#3

Post by mikewarot » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 5:57 PM UTC

Yes I still use bookmarks, though it's tempting to have chatgpt5 build me a memex so I can save whole pages and sites and mark them up to save in a journal instead.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

#4

Post by arthurdd » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 5:57 PM UTC

I still use traditional browser-based bookmarking, and sync with my Firefox account. I don't see the need to share my bookmarks.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

#5

Post by shydrablack » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 6:00 PM UTC

Yes, honestly I still do that! I know it's old school. But it works. easy to use, fast access and free, lool!

Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

#6

Post by PaulHoule » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 6:00 PM UTC

Another shot at a bookmark manager is welcome.

The usual story is "I bookmarked 20,000 web pages over 3 years and then I realized I never looked at any of them!"

I built an "image sorter" which used to ingest image galleries using a bookmarklet which would queue the galleries to get crawled with a web crawler, I would then classify and rank the image galleries in an HTMX-based UI. I really do look at the images every day so it is successful in that sense. The web crawler started running into Cloudflare problems so now I save the whole page with the browser and have a Python script harvest the pages out of my Downloads folder.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

#7

Post by stop50 » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 6:05 PM UTC

I use floccus to sync my bookmarks to my nextcloud. Especially on the phone its useful, since accessing my bookmarks in firefox for android is a hassle.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

#8

Post by mathiaspoint » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 6:10 PM UTC

Yes I heavily use bookmarks. I got back into it a few years ago when I quit going to large forums like Reddit and needed a way to remember important URLs I knew I'd want later.

I keep them in an HTML file in git along with all my dot files.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

#9

Post by ksymph » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 6:12 PM UTC

After years of jumping between different platforms and systems I've landed on linkhut [0]. I like that it's social by default and chronological-oriented, with flexible but really basic options for organization (tags and 'read later' flag). It makes it so that bookmarking neat things actually feels like it has a point, even if I don't always organize them in a way I can easily find later.

[0] https://linkhut.org/

Re: Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

#10

Post by yukieliot » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 6:16 PM UTC

Yeah, I bookmark stuff, but just in my browser. No apps or extensions — keeping it simple.