[HN Gopher] How I centralize and distribute my bookmarks
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       How I centralize and distribute my bookmarks
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 156 points
       Date   : 2022-01-10 15:55 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | evo_9 wrote:
       | So you re-created delicious?
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_(website)
       | 
       | What happened to Delicious:
       | https://www.failory.com/cemetery/delicious
        
         | abetusk wrote:
         | del.icio.us is still up, albeit with a "note secure" warning
         | [0].
         | 
         | """
         | 
         | My name is Maciej Ceglowski. I bought what remains of this site
         | in 2017 for about the price of a Volkswagen. I got that money
         | from running a paid clone of del.icio.us called Pinboard.
         | 
         | """
         | 
         | [0] https://del.icio.us/help
        
           | alexpotato wrote:
           | I was a user of del.icio.us and now a VERY happy paying
           | customer of Pinboard.
           | 
           | It really is an incredibly powerful tool that I use for all
           | kinds of things (e.g.
           | https://twitter.com/alexpotato/status/1447155166453567497)
           | 
           | Every time I send someone a topical/relevant link for a
           | discussion or project I'm involved with, people always ask
           | "How do you find this stuff?". I mention that it's primarily
           | reading great Hacker News posts or tweets and just saving it
           | over time.
           | 
           | Maciej's blog is also particularly entertaining including
           | both funny technical and non-technical posts.
        
             | gear_envy wrote:
             | Pinboard is $22 a year which is around $1.83 a month.
             | 
             | Very reasonably-priced, might have to give it a try.
        
             | ushakov wrote:
             | there's also a nice Pins app (third-party) for mac, ios
        
             | LVB wrote:
             | I'm a longtime Pinboard user but it has some annoying
             | quirks. The biggest weakness for me is the limited search.
             | e.g. Yesterday I was trying to find my kids' school menu
             | site and searched for "menu"... nothing. Turns out I did
             | have it bookmarked, but the title is "Menus and Pricing".
             | So you have to search for "menus" to find it. I've made
             | suggestions to the developer on stuff like this over the
             | years but it hasn't improved much.
        
         | thearegee wrote:
         | I'm the author of the post, it was actually inspired by me
         | missing del.icio.us
        
         | kingcharles wrote:
         | Both my delicious accounts are still accessible. I was away
         | from the Internet for eight years (jail) and when I got out
         | delicious was one of the only accounts that still worked, since
         | it hadn't changed its authentication system while I was gone.
         | Sadly, 99% of my bookmarks are dead links now.
        
           | wrycoder wrote:
           | Lots of times, just doing a current search on the title will
           | recover it.
        
             | kingcharles wrote:
             | Yeah, definitely a percentage of them are just "moved"
             | links.. things that pointed to say a .html file before
             | people realized that file extensions were out-of-date.
        
       | post_hoc_dog wrote:
       | Not distributing per se (even though this would be possible) but
       | I am storing my bookmarks in OneNote in a logical structure.
       | OneNote has the advantage to easily switch between browsers and
       | is fully searchable.
        
       | pmarreck wrote:
       | I log into Firefox Nightly and it syncs across all my Firefoxen.
        
       | epiecs wrote:
       | I have everything in zotero synched via webdav to my synology
       | nas. All my bookmarks and docs. Zotero also keeps an offline copy
       | + its as easy as clicking the button in whatever browser you are
       | using.
       | 
       | You can also share this easily with other users
        
       | allochthon wrote:
       | Adjacent to what the author is doing, I manage my bookmarks in a
       | web app. The main principle is that it should be possible to add
       | any link, no matter how trivial, and have a good chance of
       | finding it later on. (Eventually, in the far-off future, search-
       | engine numbers of links.)
       | 
       | https://digraph.app/
       | 
       | https://github.com/emwalker/digraph/
        
       | h0p3 wrote:
       | Protip: fondly remember your dial-up modem days for a few moments
       | while your browser downloads and computes it:
       | https://philosopher.life/#:[tag[Link%20Log]!tag[Log%20Audit]]
       | 
       | This is about half of my links to the web in the Hypertext.
       | Sometimes a different context is better for linking. I can't say
       | I know how to do it well enough.
        
       | onassar wrote:
       | Very cool! I've been playing with a side project (link below) to
       | try and make bookmarks easier to search through, and have run up
       | against the whole "normalizing bookmark data" challenge.
       | 
       | Most browsers do seem to follow a standard, but I've yet to find
       | a way to sync them across browsers, devices and machines (without
       | having to use some 3rd party service like Evernote, or what have
       | you). I always prefer solutions/approaches that don't require
       | users to change their behaviour (eg. use another service to track
       | links).
       | 
       | With the forthcoming version manifest v3 for Chrome extensions,
       | this may prove trickier, but it should in theory be possible :)
       | 
       | Bookee: https://onassar.github.io/extensions/bookee/
        
       | raghavtoshniwal wrote:
       | https://www.oslash.com/ does something similar, with a nicer
       | interface and more collaboration.
        
       | rank0 wrote:
       | Anyone have experience using this project:
       | https://www.xbrowsersync.org/ ??
       | 
       | I have always wanted to self-host an instance of this app as I
       | use several different desktop/mobile browsers.
        
         | hrez wrote:
         | Yes, and it's great, including self-hosting.
        
         | wrycoder wrote:
         | No MacOS / iOS / Safari support.
        
         | overtomanu wrote:
         | i used it but i had problems with bookmarks starting with
         | chrome:// and "data:text/html;" syncmarx
         | https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/syncmarx/llcdegcpe...
         | 
         | is a good alternative
        
           | hrez wrote:
           | I have chrome://settings/help and chrome://restart/
           | bookmarked with no issues.
        
       | tconfrey wrote:
       | My similar scratch-my-own-itch solution is BrainTool[0] - a
       | bookmarking extension which syncs to a shareable org-mode file.
       | Nested topics, per-item notes and tab group support.
       | 
       | [0] https://braintool.org
        
       | darekkay wrote:
       | I have written a similar tool[0], also using the YAML format. The
       | output is a small web app, contained in a single HTML file. We
       | host our YAML project bookmarks in a Git repository and
       | automatically deploy the generated web app, so it's available to
       | the whole team. I do the same with all my private bookmarks.
       | 
       | [0] https://darekkay.com/static-marks/
        
       | thearegee wrote:
       | I'm the author of this post and its been really cool to see all
       | the different comments and projects looking to solve this problem
       | - they all make mine look like amateur hour!
       | 
       | Much like other posts on here, todo apps and bookmarks don't
       | really work for me either, they just get out of date. It's not
       | really about personal bookmarks, it's more about trying to give
       | people in a company a consistent experience and making onboarding
       | a bit more self-service. I use this as a way to store my
       | companies URLs, keep them centralised and stored in my browser.
       | The Slackbot was then a way of making it accessible to non-
       | technical users.
       | 
       | I had ideas about making a web app and other interfaces to update
       | the YAML but I wanted to keep it simple, base it peoples existing
       | toolchains and a GipOps approach for versioning. There are a
       | bunch of other tools I want to build around onboarding and OOH
       | support but I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested so all of
       | this was really nice to read.
       | 
       | Thank you
        
       | eavotan wrote:
       | For my 80k+ bookmarks I use buku. Everything goes in there. It`s
       | just a sqlite database (and buku is also a library for python).
       | Good resources are saved in archivebox.io and are searchable via
       | `rga`.
       | 
       | In order to access my bookmarks i either need a local copy or
       | have access to where my stuff is stored. To open any bookmark i
       | search with `fzf` outside the browser. so i can work browser
       | independently. (Can be integrated in rofi or dmenu.)
       | 
       | And in the near future I`ll upload resources in a webarchive
       | format to ipfs node to preserve some of the current internet (and
       | to not get involved with rate limiting when I update my buku
       | metadata. Sorry HN, I'm not spamming, just updating meta data for
       | my bookmark archive.)
       | 
       | https://github.com/jarun/Buku
       | 
       | https://archivebox.io/
       | 
       | https://github.com/oduwsdl/ipwb
       | 
       | [edited1 for formatting] [edited2 forgot to relate to the linked
       | article]
        
         | jaytaylor wrote:
         | Cool! This sounds like a great setup, better than mine (posted
         | in a separate reply in this thread).
         | 
         | I've bookmarked your post for later ;), will have to go back
         | and review in detail when time permits.
        
         | m_a_g wrote:
         | 80k+ bookmarks... How many of them do you actually need and how
         | many of them are FOMO?
        
           | loceng wrote:
           | I have no idea how bookmarks I have but my plan is to
           | eventually use them to remind me of things I want to make
           | sure I want to cover in a book with quite a breadth,
           | regarding health and health systems, that I hope to write
           | some day.
        
           | glenstein wrote:
           | I assume that with something that extensive it's like a
           | research/knowledgebase type thing.
        
             | eavotan wrote:
             | Almost.
             | 
             | Those bookmarks are more or less the tip of the iceberg.
             | And they were almost all created during $DAYJOB which was
             | years ago. Although already then (~2017) i had about 3500
             | sources in my RSS Server. And of course, I lost track of
             | everything remotely interesting.
             | 
             | Archiving those links was fundamental work for creating my
             | news blog, which is still run privately until I figure out
             | how to implement a community communication system (mostly
             | commenting) that will work on an IPFS backend. I mean, the
             | comment section of HN is what has made me come to this site
             | for years.
        
       | isaaafc wrote:
       | I was trying to do the exact same thing without git and coding
       | (so that people could just view the bookmarks, maybe react to
       | them as a voting mechanism). Ironically I ended up coding a
       | solution for that - https://www.axomark.xyz .
       | 
       | The previous version was a free service without the need to sign
       | up - just create a bookmark collection page with an optional
       | password, then anyone with the password can use it right away.
       | The link to the collection could be totally anonymous because the
       | app tracked nothing at all. But I got 0 users, apart from myself.
       | So I rewrote it from scratch to make the collections more
       | organizable. The sharing is still anonymous because there's no
       | way for another user to know who created them. There has to be a
       | way, however to track your own bookmarks, so I guess it's not
       | truly "anonymous" as in "impossible to track" (the database
       | contains the bookmark owner). But it seemed this time around
       | people are more interested. I guess there has to be a balance.
        
       | sigmonsays wrote:
       | everything supports links these days, so anything beyond firefox
       | already has links. That being said, I keep links in the following
       | systems 1. google docs 2. emacs and org 3. private github
       | markdown files
       | 
       | These 3 systems allows me to adequately save links to almost
       | anything based on context.
       | 
       | I wish the tools in this space were better to share bookmarks
       | between systems but it seems like a lost cause with all the
       | bookmark systems shutdown.
        
       | axegon_ wrote:
       | For years on I endured ads because they were the sole source of
       | revenue to millions of sites online and to people who were
       | getting peanuts for their efforts of building, maintaining and
       | pouring contents which have been priceless to me. But the more I
       | endured them, the further they were pushed down my throat, most
       | of all youtube. So around 6 months ago I decided that I've had
       | enough and switched to brave. And fundamentally the one thing
       | which I still dearly miss was quick access to my
       | bookmarks/history from any of my devices. History more so than
       | bookmarks but hey... I might end up doing something similar
       | specifically for history.
        
         | wrycoder wrote:
         | I spend about $11 a month to eliminate YT ads. The DYI stuff
         | there is just too good to miss.
        
         | basch wrote:
         | History should sync between all your devices.
         | 
         | https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360021218111-How...
        
       | dopylitty wrote:
       | Synchronizing bookmarks between browsers and endpoints is a
       | surprisingly long standing and thorny issue within enterprise IT.
       | You'd think it would be simple but every profile synchronization
       | service I've ever encountered has had severe failure scenarios. I
       | guess it makes sense when you think of it as a CAP theorem
       | problem.
       | 
       | One solution kept the bookmarks in an internal DB and would
       | create them on an endpoint (eg a non-persistent virtual desktop)
       | at sign-in. Sometimes this failed due to whatever reason and you
       | had no bookmarks for that session. Oh well.
       | 
       | But wait the solution also synced bookmarks when the browser
       | process was closed. That sync didn't fail so now all your
       | bookmarks were overwritten with a blank bookmarks file and were
       | thus erased from the DB too! Now you got to call support and have
       | them revert your bookmarks to the previous version. But
       | thankfully the service eventually included a self-service portal
       | where you could revert them yourself.
       | 
       | Heaven forbid you have two active endpoints. Last write wins?
       | Maybe!
        
         | robertlagrant wrote:
         | > every profile synchronization service I've ever encountered
         | has had severe failure scenarios. I guess it makes sense when
         | you think of it as a CAP theorem problem
         | 
         | I don't think CAP theorem is particularly relevant in this
         | scenario. Sounds more like they were doing an overly basic
         | "just overwrite with the current state" instead of sending
         | individual commands, e.g. "create this bookmark".
         | 
         | The reason is likely a procurement problem. Anything that's
         | "enterprise" and calls things "endpoints" is off to a bad start
         | in my book.
        
       | phgn wrote:
       | I've seen a few large tech companies where internal "bookmarks"
       | where all just shortlinks you had to remember (using golinks.io
       | or another internal config).
       | 
       | So for example http://go/project-X, go/JIRA-123, go/team,
       | go/team/oncall. References to the links were scattered across
       | dozens of documentation pages and you just got used to that state
       | over time. I always thought that a proper bookmarking system
       | would do wonders for onboarding and documentation (by forcing
       | people to maintain organisation if they wanted to use the links).
        
       | WallyFunk wrote:
       | With Pinboard down recently[0], I have made a pledge to myself to
       | export from Pinboard.in as frequently as possible to a local
       | hard-drive where I then back that up in several cloud locations
       | for peace of mind. As a rule of thumb: I don't build my castles
       | on other people's land. Edit: the cloud is building castles on
       | other people's land, but I have local backups and don't put all
       | my eggs in one basket (i.e use several providers like Backblaze,
       | Dropbox etc).
       | 
       | [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29873306
        
       | bullen wrote:
       | I also made a system for this: http://tentacle.rupy.se
       | 
       | More out of inspiration from digg and similar sites.
        
       | zakokor wrote:
       | In 2019 I built my own bookmark while learn Reactjs, I launched
       | it as open source and I still use it even though I am the only
       | active user. This is an example with my profile:
       | https://pegao.co/@zakokor
        
       | karlicoss wrote:
       | I'm not using browser bookmarks anymore, instead I am just using
       | plaintext files (org-mode in my case). When I want to make a
       | bookmark I use grasp [0] to simply capture in in the 'links.org'
       | file, possibly with some notes/selected text and tags. Now and
       | then I would skim through this file, refile the most
       | important/interesting things to other files, and put the rest
       | into 'later.org' (things I might never look at again :) ). The
       | upside is that bookmarks become alive this way, you can easily
       | edit them, add more context, interlink, etc.
       | 
       | I also mirror saved items from other services (e.g.
       | reddit/HN/twitter/instapaper) as plaintext org-mode files, via
       | orger [1].
       | 
       | Then, all of this feeds into Promensia [0] [1], a tool I wrote
       | that serves as a web browsing copilot and surfaces my bookmarks
       | (or any relevant links, really) when I'm browsing.
       | 
       | That way I don't need to worry about spending too much time
       | processing bookmarks and that I'd never read them, I can just
       | read the most interesting stuff and the rest is searchable (so I
       | use it as a knowledge base/personal search engine), and surfaces
       | in my browser via Promnesia, so I can find out if I have some
       | relevant information in my knowledge base without actively
       | searching. I don't need to suffer from vendor lock-in (even if
       | the service/tool is open, migration is always painful), I can
       | just add another adapter to my system and feed it into
       | Promnesia/Orger.
       | 
       | [0] https://github.com/karlicoss/grasp#readme
       | 
       | [1] https://beepb00p.xyz/orger.html
       | 
       | [2] https://beepb00p.xyz/promnesia.html
       | 
       | [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23668507
        
       | l00sed wrote:
       | I typically export my bookmarks as JSON from Firefox and use a
       | custom script to loop through and convert each bookmark into HTML
       | nodes. I use JavaScript to expand/hide nodes with buttons (styled
       | with CSS). Overall pretty simple but really sustainable and easy
       | to use IMO ... Pretty proud of it:
       | 
       | https://l-o-o-s-e-d.net/bookmarks
       | 
       | Eventually, I'd like to add "level" markers that give more info
       | about number of levels contained or number of bookmarks therein.
        
       | codeptualize wrote:
       | Bookmarks, gotta love something so simple that just never works
       | for me. It's the same as todo list apps, I tried all of them, and
       | non really stick (although Things3 is doing well atm). Things get
       | outdated, I don't organize it well and it becomes a mess, or I
       | simply stop using it. I think I'm just not organized enough.
       | 
       | But I really enjoy reading the comments how everyone has either
       | build something themselves, uses some (sometimes obscure/niche)
       | tool, or has bundled a bunch of stuff together into something
       | that works for them. OP's solution also looks nice.
        
       | jaytaylor wrote:
       | I actually do something similar, but no upvotes and it uses
       | Evernote WebClipper to capture and track tags archive a snapshot
       | of the page. They are then indexed by both tags and date and
       | rendered into templates to be stored statically forever.
       | 
       | https://jaytaylor.com/notes (warning: all on one page, it's grown
       | large over the years, please be gentle to my poor server)
       | 
       | It's open-source, just a python module you hook up an Evernote
       | API key and tell it which "notebook" to use:
       | 
       | https://github.com/jaytaylor/evernote-publisher
       | 
       | Really handy to not lose track of links and pages (though my
       | system could definitely be further improved). I also like that
       | it's naturally cross browser since the clipper plugin is
       | available for both FF and Chrome.
       | 
       | AFAIK, I'm the only one using it :)
        
       | inanutshellus wrote:
       | I keep making bookmarks, but I don't know why... I never, ever,
       | ever, ever go back and use them. I even think about how I'm not
       | going to use a bookmark as I create it. :-\
        
         | voltaireodactyl wrote:
         | Right there with you. I have this vague dream that one day, the
         | tech will be there to automatically collate and reference all
         | my stored data more easily, sort of like how I work with
         | physical sources.
         | 
         | Even as I type this, though, it feels more and more like a pipe
         | dream.
        
           | bckr wrote:
           | What would be the minimum useful version of this?
           | 
           | How do you work with physical sources?
           | 
           | What makes you think it's a pipe dream?
        
             | voltaireodactyl wrote:
             | Working with physical sources = being able to spread ten
             | books out on a table and easily flip between sections in a
             | tactile way (physical pages). That's really what I mean.
             | For some reason physical objects are much simpler to work
             | with (for me) and opening ten windows (even on a giant
             | screen) just doesn't work for me the same way.
             | 
             | The minimum useful version for me would be something that
             | recognizes all media types AND allows commenting/notes in a
             | standard format that links between them and is easily
             | manageable.
             | 
             | In particular that would mean for me:
             | 
             | - read/highlight/notate/manage/organize functionality for
             | epubs, PDFs.
             | 
             | - import physical books via ISBN and allow me to attach my
             | notes there (ideally with a companion phone app that lets
             | me scan/photograph relevant sections.
             | 
             | - photo library (ideally containing the aforementioned book
             | pics while leaving them linked to the notes).
             | 
             | - multiple routes for surfacing old stuff.
             | 
             | But in all honesty: the reason I think it's a pipe dream is
             | because I'm fairly certain the limiting factor is being
             | human, not the technology. Like I'm kind of hoping for a
             | new paradigm for digesting media, but I also recognize
             | that's a pretty steep ask.
             | 
             | Relatedly I've been trying to build what I'm talking about
             | out of emacs since COVID started, and I get some of the way
             | there by org roam + org noter, but the difficulty of
             | connecting emacs with various work cloud services and such
             | has proved quite daunting.
             | 
             | But I'm still at it, because most tools of this nature are
             | dev centric, whereas I'm prose centric, so much of my
             | frustration comes from having tools that are CLOSE but fall
             | apart in the last mile workflow (for my purposes).
             | 
             | Honorable mention to hookapp for mac, which I'm still
             | wrapping my head around but may end up solving some of my
             | nicher problem areas.
        
               | bckr wrote:
               | Thanks for going into detail on that. This makes me
               | wonder if information organization and traversal is truly
               | the killer app of AR + AI. Arrange your data like
               | physical objects. See the connections like literal
               | threads in 3D space. Have a librarian who can actually
               | understand your natural language queries help you find
               | things.
        
               | voltaireodactyl wrote:
               | For me it absolutely would be. Allow me to interact with
               | my (personal, DRM free, already owned and stored locally)
               | digital media as if it were physical media and you will
               | have my money day one (unless Zuckerberg).
        
         | LVB wrote:
         | It has become more important to me as search has deteriorated
         | in general. If I find a possibly useful site that isn't SEO-
         | compliant, there is a decent chance I might not be able to find
         | it again if I don't save a link.
        
         | SloopJon wrote:
         | I tend to keep way too many tabs open in my browsers, some of
         | which I never, ever go back and read. Once in a while I dump
         | these evergreen tabs into bookmarks.google.com (yeah, I know),
         | which is just enough to satisfy my inner hoarder that I haven't
         | completely lost whatever was so special about that tab.
         | 
         | I have this fantasy about a browser history on steroids that
         | remembers not just the URLs, but the contents of everything
         | I've ever visited. Not necessarily 100% retention of images and
         | layouts, but at least searchable text. There are so many times
         | when I'm simply unable to convince Google to find a page I read
         | a few years ago. I've probably even bookmarked a project or two
         | along those lines.
        
           | 1MachineElf wrote:
           | I've the same fantasy, plus some extra features. The
           | organization of the browser tabs is also important. Sometimes
           | that's because a windows contains tabs all on an important
           | topic. Other times it's because there's a hierarchical-
           | ordering of the tabs. Either way, I'd like to save this
           | information in addition to the tab/bookmark and (optionally)
           | content.
        
           | mxuribe wrote:
           | Hmmm...like a sort of fuzzy IPFS, eh? I don't mean this
           | sarcastically...i lefgitimately think this is a good idea. I
           | knwo they have the wayback machine, etc...but i imagine you
           | mean a more local, personal thing...i like this idea!
        
           | wozacosta wrote:
           | Check out raindrop.io, it features search throughout your
           | bookmarks (even pdf contents are indexed)
           | 
           | https://help.raindrop.io/using-search/
        
           | zerkten wrote:
           | Doesn't pinboard.in support full-text archiving? If so, it's
           | probably still limited to public content. Conceivably a
           | bookmark extension could save a full-page screenshot and all
           | of the text, even if the page requires auth, isn't resolvable
           | from the internet, etc.
           | 
           | I suffer from the same affliction for the most part, but I do
           | end up capturing sets of bookmarks related to research or
           | projects that I share with colleagues. It also sometimes
           | happens that I start a new browser profile for learning a
           | tech and save all my bookmarks from that with the code. That
           | has helped when it's a case of "how did I do this one thing I
           | know I did in throwaway project X?"
        
         | japhyr wrote:
         | My bookmarks are roughly broken into two groups - a small set
         | that I go to specifically on a regular basis, and a much larger
         | set that's organized loosely into a long list of folders. I
         | rarely go into my bookmark folders to click on one of these
         | links specifically.
         | 
         | The value of that larger set of bookmarks is like a
         | personalized search history. When I search for a topic, I
         | really like knowing whether I've already visited a relevant
         | site. It saves sifting through raw search results for topics
         | that come up a few times a year, or when I work on specific
         | kinds of projects.
        
         | 63 wrote:
         | Some time ago I went through my several hundred bookmarks,
         | rooted out link rot, and tagged all of them. The tags have been
         | a godsend for finding high quality resources quickly. Recently
         | I needed materials on C and systems programming and I found the
         | perfect site bookmarked who knows when. My bookmarks are more
         | of a very niche, manual high quality index for searching.
        
         | ajvs wrote:
         | Protip: switch to an outliner with infinite nesting like
         | Dynalist and dump bookmarks in there. You can far more easily
         | categorise, tag and interlink bookmarks that way, and it
         | eventually evolves into a personal wiki almost.
        
           | GaylordTuring wrote:
           | While we're plugging different software solutions for
           | creating indented lists, I would recommend TaskPaper 3 for
           | MacOS. It's a fantastic piece of software that runs natively
           | on Mac.
        
         | blowski wrote:
         | I've spent more time trying to find a page I wish I'd
         | bookmarked than bookmarking. The friction is so low adding a
         | bookmark, even when I doubt I'll need it.
        
         | codeptualize wrote:
         | I gave up, no use. Important work links I know how to find
         | again (I always remember who I send links to on Slack and then
         | I can find them very quickly).
         | 
         | I gave up on collecting links, I'm not organized enough, it
         | always turns into an unusable mess.
        
         | wwweston wrote:
         | There's a real point here -- not every thing we note will ever
         | have value to us again.
         | 
         | OTOH, I taught high school math briefly, and this reminds me of
         | the evergreen question "When are we ever going to use this?"
         | And the _honest_ answer that most students in the classroom
         | will never use more than a tiny portion of the anything they
         | 're taught beyond basic algebra (maybe not even that).
         | 
         | And yet it's worth doing sometimes because at any given point
         | in life, you don't know exactly what you're going to be or do
         | later. You want to do what is more likely to open doors than
         | close doors later.
         | 
         | Even if you learn your HS math well, you probably won't get by
         | on that skill specifically. You'll either train on deeper
         | specifics that HS math gatekept... and/or you'll probably
         | forget enough of it that you'd have to come back and brush up
         | and _then_ get into specific applications.
         | 
         | But you'll remember there was such a thing as this kind of
         | problem solving and have some idea of what it entailed and
         | where to find out more.
         | 
         | Kindof like a bookmark.
        
         | mark_h wrote:
         | I recently created a daily "random 5 bookmarks" email using
         | GitHub actions and Pinboard's API. I love it; it's a
         | serendipitous reminder of things I once thought were
         | interesting, and now I bookmark things with abandon just so
         | they may show up again. I rarely use bookmarks to find
         | something again because search is still low-friction, but that
         | assumes I know what I'm looking for.
        
         | defaultchar wrote:
         | I had the same problem. I made this browser add-on to try and
         | fix that...
         | 
         | https://defaultcharacter.com/2021-09-bookmark-controller-int...
        
         | basch wrote:
         | and like you always mean to someday migrate everything to
         | https://pinboard.in/ or https://historio.us/ but the task has
         | become so daunting?
        
       | kirubakaran wrote:
       | If I may shamelessly plug my startup: https://histre.com/ I'm
       | building recommendations on top of your bookmarks / notes /
       | highlights. This could be interesting because there is no
       | conflict of interest in those recommendations (ie not trying push
       | anything). It has a lot of integrations including with IFTTT and
       | Twitter, with more coming.
        
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