[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services? ___________________________________________________________________ Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services? If not, do you collect web pages some other way? Author : joe8756438 Score : 250 points Date : 2022-06-23 12:40 UTC (10 hours ago) | blaydator wrote: | I will self promote as it's one of the main use cases of | Boomerang. It's a minimal mail to self app for iOS and Android | with share extension to bookmark website in one click. Emails are | super convenient because you consult them everyday so your links | doesn't get lost in an app. | | https://boomerang-app.io | smusamashah wrote: | I use Dynalist and a custom chrome extension which uses its API | to save links to a list. On Android I use an app which can send | http requests to any address. I use that to share urls from | browser etc to that app which again send that link to Dynalist. | jamifsud wrote: | I've tried just about every app in the space (some great tools | listed in this thread) and haven't found one that works for me, | so I'm building one! | | My workflow is save for later focused (I tend to save content to | read / learn from vs bookmark resources to visit) and now days | I'm collecting content in so many different forms (podcasts, | video, newsletters, etc). I've found that nobody has native | support for every content form I save and it's been a big pain | point. We're focusing on nailing native support for all content | types / sources and building tools to help you manage the forever | growing list of content that can sometimes happen when your | library grows! | | It's called Upnext (https://www.getupnext.com), happy to share | invites with HNers in search of a tool in this space, email in | profile! | mr-karan wrote: | Yup, I use a self hosted version of [1] | | [1]: https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding | jpeeler wrote: | This is the one I'm leaning towards using as well. (Though | https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori was a close second.) | | Linkding uses SQLite as the database, which for self-hosting is | such a huge win. It doesn't do much in the way of local | archiving, but the interface looks so incredibly clean. | | I haven't tried this yet, but since I have "HTTP Shortcuts" | (wonderful Android app) already installed I really appreciated | the ability to be able to send bookmarks from my phone easily | without installing anything new: | | https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding/blob/ebbf0022bc44bf... | Aachen wrote: | Why give that link a number? | Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: | I use Zotero for this now. I have a bunch of sub-collections | (e.g. technical, interesting, fitness, etc.) and when I see a | webpage I like I use the plug-in to save to Zotero. Better than a | bookmark because it also saves a snapshot of the webpage, and, I | can easily cite it if I'm writing a document. | | https://www.zotero.org/ | humanistbot wrote: | +1 for Zotero. If you are writing academic or technical | documents and need to cite the documents you save in a standard | format, it is a life saver. | TheCowboy wrote: | Do you or anyone else have thoughts on if Zotero would be too | much for someone who doesn't need to write papers or cite | documents? A large component of my day-to-day work is doing a | lot of research and managing it for the duration of the | project. | Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: | I highly recommend it, even for this use case. It takes a | bit to get used to in how it works and setting so that it | works well for your given workflow. For example, I'm a | latex user so I had to add extensions to zotero so it can | output to bibtex. But again, it wasn't that bad. Once its | set up and you used it a few times, it easy and super | useful. | | I use it not only for web bookmarks, but as my main | 'library' for all my documents. Even random scanned docs or | even funny gifs I will store in zotero because I can tag | them and put in notes so they are easy to find later. | sundarurfriend wrote: | Same. I don't even use the citation features of Zotero, it's | purely a bookmark manager for me. I can choose whether to save | the page with or without a snapshot, use both folders and tags | for organization, add notes if I want to, and on supported | sites (like Github), get an automatic bookmark summary too. | | The interface took a bit of getting used to, but I learned some | of the shortcuts, installed Zutilo [1], and ultimately just | accepted the fact that I'll have to use the mouse for some | things, as everything else about the program makes it worth it. | | [1] https://github.com/wshanks/Zutilo | Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: | I hadn't heard of zutilo, I will check it out, thanks. | _-david-_ wrote: | I store them in markdown files. It allows me to have a | description and have multiple links for that description. I have | separate markdown files for different categories. | | For some pages I will manually use an archive service and include | the archived links with the original link. | spratzt wrote: | I use Zotero. | terpimost wrote: | Just sending it all to my Telegram... there are tags there | vasili111 wrote: | I use Chrome extension "Save as Shortcut" | (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-as-shortcut/f...) | to save the link as a file on the file system. Works for me | pretty well. | agmand wrote: | I used some of the solutions listed here (like Pocket) for a | time. Eventually, I decided I can just post them in my website | [1], because why not : that way they are accessible from | everywhere, easy to edit, categorize and comment, shareable with | anyone in seconds. | | [1] https://andirko.eu/wiki/bookmarks | | (Edit: typo) | Adraghast wrote: | I've been using Raindrop.io for this. (Not affiliated.) | rsolva wrote: | I have tried many different solutions the last two decades, but | none of of them really stuck or became useful over time. I kinda | gave up and as a last ditch effort started to do the simplest | thing I could think of: ctrl+D to add bookmarks in Firefox, | jotting down a few keywords on each entry. No folders, no | structure, just a flat list and some keywords. | | A few months in I noticed how powerful this simple system was. | When talking with someone else about a tool, github-repo or | article I had seen but did no remember the name or title of, | finding it back was suddenly a breeze. Since I keep my desktop | and mobile bookmarks in sync, it it just a matter of typing in a | keword in the address bar in firefox and it shows up instantly! | | On desktop, you can limit the search to bookmarks only by | starting with a *, which is helpful to avoid browser history etc. | | I have really low bar for adding a bookmark now as the mental | overhead is so low and it is done notime. It has become the | second brain I always wanted :) | makapuf wrote: | I do this, as well as having an automated menu with 10 last | bookmarks to continue reading things I just bookmarked | ngetchell wrote: | How do you accomplish this? | amazing_stories wrote: | Good tip. I just recently started tagging my bookmarks because | I have too many to easily sort. | JoshTriplett wrote: | I do this as well, and then Firefox Sync ensures I have the | same bookmarks on laptop and mobile. | JamesLeonis wrote: | I also use Firefox bookmarks. To tack onto this, you can also | select multiple tabs and bookmark them all into a bookmark | folder. | igammarays wrote: | I use the same app for archiving everything - bookmarks, whole | website crawls, 15+ years of email history, receipts, large files | and media, directories on my computer - everything. DevonThink - | native mac app with fast search that has never failed me. | bravetraveler wrote: | Can't say I ever have to be honest. | | The furthest I go is using the facilities built into whatever | browser I happen to be using. | | I don't find myself really in need | Arubis wrote: | I use and love Pinboard, plus the Instapaper-like read-it-later | integration Paperback (readpaperback.com) set as my home page in | my mobile browser. It's a great combo. | karaterobot wrote: | > If not, do you collect web pages some other way? | | I send it to myself in the @karaterobot (or equivalent) channel | in Mattermost, which is the self-hosted chat program I use. This | is exactly equivalent to sending it to yourself in Slack, except | that free versions of Slack have a limited history, after which | your archive will be lost (or, rather, held behind a paywall). | The advantage of this method is that it's organized by time, and | searchable, and you can save links, documents, images, notes, | etc. | marcomezzavilla wrote: | gnrfanperu wrote: | Yes, I regularly use Raindrop.io | jamisonbryant wrote: | For temporary or read-later items, I have a Todoist project | called "Links to Read" and I use the Todoist browser extension to | send the page to that project. | | For more permanent links, I maintain quite an extensive | collection of bookmarks, all neatly organized by subject area and | utility. | _ank_it wrote: | What do you use for permanent links? Manual maintenance? | devracca wrote: | I have a similar setup (I use raindrop.io) for temp links. I am | meaning to find better organization ways for my permanent | links. Curious to know details about your setup | wzdd wrote: | Yes, I wrote my own service after Maciej (very politely, this is | not a criticism!) asked grandfathered-in single-payment Pinboard | users if they would consider a recurring payment. It's a simple | Python / Flask app which runs on a host running Dokku. | jaw0 wrote: | I used to use delicious, but after it got bought the Nth time, I | went and built my own delicious clone. | czam wrote: | I'm running a bookmarking site with a specific set of features at | kntm.org and am using it since 2014, please join! | | I also use OneTab (or similar) to clear up open tabs. I use | Pocket just for sending articles to my kobo reader and Instapaper | for read-it-later. Also using Materialistic app to quickly save | HN articles. | | I think the basic functionality of bookmarking will never be | obsolete. | wazoox wrote: | I collect/sort of bookmark useful pages with Zotero. | xenodium wrote: | https://plainorg.com (iOS/share sheet from Safari) - I authored | this one. | | https://braintool.org (Chrome) | | Both powered by a plain text stores. | shkliarau wrote: | I'm only saving articles for later (and then videos directly on | YouTube). The problem with bookmarks is going back to them (if | ever), so I always tend to forget about what I've saved and then | just google what I need in the moment. With articles it's a bit | different but I used to save a lot of articles to Pocket and then | Instapaper, and reading them not too often. Now using Alfread | that sends me quotes from saved articles as reminders, so that | helps a bit. | bachmeier wrote: | Hard to beat Zotero as a bookmarking service IMO. Saves a copy of | the article and makes it available through the web interface if | you're not at your usual desktop. $20 a year for 2 GB of storage | is a good value if you want to go beyond the free plan. | kragen wrote: | I use a text file in Git with one URL per line with commentary | following the URL, with hashtags in the line. This makes text | search through the comments really easy (especially including | isearch in Emacs) but doesn't provide archival, thumbnailing, or | full-text search of page contents. I don't have the | collaboratively suggested tags from del.icio.us but what I miss | more is the feed of other people's linkblogs. | | Each day has a blank line and a "links for 02022-06-23:" header | beginning it. | joshu wrote: | FWIW this is how I saved URLs originally; when it got | unmaneagable I built muxway and then del.icio.us. The notes | became tags as they were often a single word. Hash because it | was a comment. http://the.url/ #notes | http://another.url/ http://third.url/ #word | kragen wrote: | Interesting, did factoryjoe know that when he proposed | hashtags for Twitter? There weren't hash marks in the | del.icio.us interface but I don't remember if muxway had them | or not. | | I still have an XML dump of my del.icio.us bookmarks that I | haven't merged in. The linkrot rate is pretty high. | sk8terboi wrote: | AlecSchueler wrote: | No, I used to be super into bookmarks and a lot of the first code | I wrote was to help me manage them and to discover new things | from others via delicious bookmarks and things like that. | | In recent years I've found that I only visit 5 out so websites | with any regularity and everything else is as quick to Google for | as to search my bookmarks for. | | I've completely given up on bookmarks. | rglover wrote: | Yup. Pinboard. Maciej's commitment to rigid simplicity and speed | has made me a customer for life. | dangerard wrote: | I built a little chrome extension[0] that allows you to like and | share links as you are browsing the web. It was originally | intended to be kind of like Digg, but most people just use it to | bookmark. | | [0] | https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/poster/heklcccecmo... | TimC123456 wrote: | I'm using Safari on macOS and iOS as my primary browsers. If I | find something worth bookmarking, I add it to Reading List (the | keyboard shortcut is muscle memory by now) which gives me a | searchable list of offline--readable sites synced across all my | devices. I've also found the History search really great at | quickly allowing me to solve the "what was that ZFS HOWTO was | looking at last week?" type of situations. | | I, too, am (was?) a long-time paying Pinboard user, but Reading | List is just so much less friction. I found myself never going | back to look through my Pinboard bookmarks. | | Reading List "just works." | fauigerzigerk wrote: | _> Reading List "just works."_ | | Offline reading doesn't always work. On the Mac I have to use | the "save offline" menu. On iOS I haven't been able to find out | when or why it does or doesn't work offline. | jxramos wrote: | so what is the reading list feature exactly, I was going to | post to AskDifferent what's the deal with that feature and what | does it offer precisely. I had stuff showing up in my list but | they all got added there accidentally. | | Does Safari download a static version of each page and caches | it somewhere on disk and indexes it somewhere in the browser | for you? | segu wrote: | Exactly, I think friction is critical in this case. Bookmarks | and native reading lists definitely have an edge with that. | What you say about 'never going back' to bookmarked items is | interesting, I've been feeling the same and despite trying many | solutions I still have to find a tool that would help me | classify, fill missing tags etc. to really organize my | knowledge base better. I need something platform independent | tho | manmal wrote: | I use pinboard.in, 99,9% via either the iOS & macOS app ,,Pins". | This is mainly something that buys me peace of mind, in case the | browser history fails me. | unethical_ban wrote: | Most of the things I find interesting are on HN or reddit, though | I probably make about 20 bookmarks a year in my browser. I have | Vivaldi sync set up. | | I have an interest in building a "saved item" extraction tool for | my reddit accounts that exports them to a bookmark file for | offline storage. Same with Hacker News. Though if the tool | already exists, please link it here! | mtone wrote: | I add stuff in FF Group Speed Dial [0] under a variety of | headings. I try to stick to ~100-150 links in there, deleting | entire headings once past their usefulness. | | They're no good as a long term knowledge base however -- search | is too limited. | | [0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en- | US/firefox/addon/groupspeeddia... | undoware wrote: | Raindrop. Every day, for all things. The snapshots of the pages | it takes means that if I see something I can later say something, | it doesn't matter who grooms the content meanwhile. | abraxas wrote: | I miss furl a lot. It was a short lived service in the days of | Web 2.0 where it not only bookmarked the pages for you but also | saved a scraped copy and indexed it so it was really easy to find | content later. It was an amazing academic research tool that I | think would be incredibly valuable for the problem it was trying | to solve. | stasm wrote: | If it's something I want to read and then be done with it, I keep | the tab open. | | If it's something I may want to come back to, or something that | I'd be sad if it disappeared from the web, I save it to a synced | folder using the SingleFile extension which inlines all content | into a single HTML file. | pacifika wrote: | I use Pocket, and Alfread on top of that. Will switch out pocket | for instapaper though, because Pocket cannot seem to download | articles in the background, so when I'm reading on unreliable | connections the articles are never there. | skyzyx wrote: | Since 2006, I've gone from: | | Delicious - Ma.gnol.ia - Delicious - Pinboard/Instapaper - | Raindrop.io | aquajet wrote: | Why so much switching? | corytheboyd wrote: | I bookmark things in the browser and have Alfred index it for | search (a built-in free Alfred feature). Simple and effective. | somehnacct3757 wrote: | I get the feeling most ppl keep tons and tons of tabs open these | days. Browsers keep having to reduce the workload of background | tabs, and have even added some UX features like tab grouping and | pinning. And then there's the success of tab manager browser | extensions... | hprotagonist wrote: | I have a paid pinboard subscription. | sbarg wrote: | I've been using Pocket since it was ReadItLater. Two areas need | improvement: 1) display of recipes in article mode and 2) display | and redirection of Reddit articles. I'm intrigued with the yacy | setup of user l72. I may check that out... | pratyushmittal wrote: | I (still) use Pinboard: https://pinboard.in/u:pratyush | Reasons: 1. Archives - those tutorials and guides stay when | the original pages go 404 2. API - I use the api to | automatically post my bookmarks to my blog 3. Full-text | search: this is very very useful when needed 4. Social | Discovery: Search that niche website / app on Pinboard. It shows | lots of other people who found that same thing as interesting. We | can then follow them and subscribe to their favourites as RSS | feed. | jng wrote: | I use pinboard as well. Early user of del.icio.us, I exported | it all to pinboard and paid a one-time lifetime fee. Too many | old links are dead, but that's the nature of the web, and I | hope waybackmachine can help with some of them (I never paid | for the full-text-archive feature of pinboard, it would have | been a good idea but it's too late now). Sometimes it | definitely helps me find some old highlights that still lurk in | a shiny way in my mind. | tclancy wrote: | Same. Having imported my delicious bookmarks dating back to | 2005 or so, I have a fairly large set of links that I try to | tag consistently. I don't actually read a ton of them, but | being able to full-text search or filter by combining tags | makes it really useful for digging up things I barely remember | coming across. | robterrell wrote: | I also continue to use Pinboard, for much the same reasons. | Since 2010! I don't use the social features but it's nice to | have a tool that's been constant and reliable for over a | decade. | ghaff wrote: | The same. I started using it after Magnolia died. I used to | do link blog posts via a script that used the API but stopped | doing that at one point. | [deleted] | klenwell wrote: | I use the API to send myself a daily email with a combination | of random and anniversary bookmarks: | | https://github.com/klenwell/pinprick | | I find it a good way to keep in touch with past bookmarks and | do some light maintenance. | AareyBaba wrote: | Maciej has a 'random' bookmarklet you can drag to your | browser toolbar. See https://pinboard.in/howto/ | some_furry wrote: | I love Pinboard. It has all the features I'd expect from a | bookmarking service, but nothing superfluous. There's no | upsell. There's no advertisement or JavaScript bloat. | | Part of the reason for Pinboard's success is the lack of VC | pressure for growth. I'm happy to keep paying for Pinboard | indefinitely. | jnovek wrote: | I just became a Pinboard customer a few months ago! | | I picked Pinboard because the UI is simple but functional. No | 30mb blob of JavaScript. It pairs well with todo.txt... now I | just need a simple Dropbox-based notes app to complete the | trio. | windexh8er wrote: | Pinboard is phenomenal. I used to keep all my links in | Simplenote but Pinboard is far superior for a number of the | reasons listed here already. I may only search through it for | something once a week but I find I tag things much more | thoroughly in Pinboard than anything else I've used. | Semiapies wrote: | It's a great service. | scarface74 wrote: | Why? My Safari bookmarks are automatically synced between all of | my devices. When I was using Windows, I could use the official | Apple plug in for Firefox and Chrome to sync between | Safari/Chrome/Firefox and they would each stay synced | (eventually) between all of my browsers. | kirubakaran wrote: | I'm building https://histre.com/ | | Bookmarks are just a starting point for easy knowledge | management, online research, and collaboration. There's so much | more that you could do with it. | dabedee wrote: | I use Firefox bookmarks which syncs across all devices and has | tags (although it's difficult to get them out without using the | places.sqlite database file). I also have a subscription to | pinboard.in but only to sync my FF bookmarks and tags there as a | backup. | maneesh wrote: | I pay for raindrop.io. Their free version is fantastic and i | recommend it | aiisjustanif wrote: | Raindrop.io at scale did not work well for me it was a lot more | upkeep and the load times were a bit much. Also, the main pain | point for me was the browser extension would constantly crash | and not populate my tags or folders. | flixing wrote: | I use start.me and very with that | chazeon wrote: | I use self-hosted [linkace][1]. It is similar to Shaarli but has | a little nicer interface. | | [1]: https://www.linkace.org/ | capdeck wrote: | Awesome alternative. I've been using Shaarli for a very long | time. Very stable, always works, everywhere works. Doesn't look | fancy, but reliability is off the charts. | thearrow wrote: | Just switched from https://pinboard.in to https://raindrop.io for | this the other day. Migration went smoothly and so far the | product is a bit nicer. | and0 wrote: | The suggested tags is what I'm really interested in, but don't | want to pay extra for it. It'd be nice if a Chrome extension | (since my bookmarks are sync'd there anyway) handled this with | a nicer display but used the existing bookmarks. | | For example, a tag of the subreddit would be excellent for all | my recent /r/unixporn inspiration saves. Managing bookmarks is | a hassle and why I usually don't bother or throw them into a | "Misc" folder. | mcint wrote: | I use Wallabag on a yunohost server. I highly recommend it. Easy | saving, offline reading, and sharing between devices. I wish it | were easier to share with others, but I read some PR comments | yesterday clarifying why support has bigger implications for the | tool. | DaniDaniel5005 wrote: | I'm working on one which auto saves your link as a screenshot and | PDF: | | https://github.com/Daniel31x13/link-warden | racl101 wrote: | Still use Pinboard cause it's simple. | syspec wrote: | Raindrop.io It feels like a modern version of all the previous | iterations of bookmarking. | nojito wrote: | Nope. I print every interesting website to pdf and use ripgrep to | search through it. | anshumankmr wrote: | I use Onetab | epberry wrote: | I've been enjoying https://daily.dev. The way they integrate into | the browser is quite nice too. Well built all around. | chiefalchemist wrote: | Not sure if you noticed this bubble up on HN earlier in the week | but this might be helpful. | | It's not bookmarking as much as site-marking, and then having | your own search engine based on that collection. | | Figured it was worth mentioning. | | https://github.com/brave/goggles-quickstart/blob/main/gettin... | jimmySixDOF wrote: | Also using Raindrop.io - it works great with Make integrations | and the dev responds to issues. Good to sync between multiple | browsers on multiple devices. | eirikvaa wrote: | Came to mention Raindrop.io - great service. | eddyg wrote: | Came here to say the same. I'm also a very satisfied | raindrop.io user. Native Safari integration for both macOS | and iOS is a huge plus, and the friction is low to put | bookmarks into categories and apply tags when saving them. | dontbesquare wrote: | I use Nextcloud's bookmark features via the YunoHost instance I | self host. A simple roll your own solution of sorts. | https://yunohost.org/ is a really cool project. I love what | they're doing. | ryankshaw wrote: | I have the pocket extension installed in chrome. Not so much | because I actually refer back to the things I have added to it | but so that when I have wayyyy too many tabs open I can click the | "add to pocket" button on a few of them and not agonize about | closing them. | jrochkind1 wrote: | Do you pay for pocket or use the free tier? I hadn't heard of | pocket before, but am looking at it... it's not clear to me | what is limited in free tier/what the difference is. "Permanent | library of everything you've saved" is listed as a feature of | only the premium paid tier, leading me to wonder if that means | your saved things disappear from the free tier after a certain | amount of time? | probotect0r wrote: | I use the free tier, didn't even know they had a paid tier, | and I have had nothing disappear. | | Edit: They have more details here: | https://help.getpocket.com/article/929-pocket-premium- | perman... | | Permanent library means they make copies of the articles and | links that you save, so they are available even if the | original goes down. | gxqoz wrote: | I pay for the premium tier. I've been disappointed by their | promises about content being retained forever. There's a big | caveat that they don't actually keep paywalled content | forever. This is annoying because I might save something | that's not paywalled right now, highlight it, then come back | a year later and I can't get to my highlights anymore. And | they've been extremely unreliable in being able to retrieve | all of my content from searching. Articles I'm positive I've | saved routinely don't appear in my searches. There's some | sort of caching going on where they don't include articles I | haven't recently interacted with and they haven't been able | to fix it for 3+ years. I really want to like Pocket but they | just fail in this important use case for me. | dkarl wrote: | Same here, but I've started tagging certain kinds of links. I | haven't used the tags much, except to look up recipes, so it | remains to be seen how much mileage I'll get out of the tages, | but I do like using Pocket as a kind of reading queue to help | keep my tabs tidy. | matiastucci wrote: | I use guardo.io and so far I'm pretty happy with it | user00012-ab wrote: | I use http://dynalist.io you can clip anything into your inbox, | either the url (default when nothing is selected), or selected | text on the page (with url of where it came from), and it works | on all platforms. Once you have your data in a list you can do | whatever you want with it and curate it the way you want, search | it, and tag it. | | Also, you can export the data out pretty easily also, which may | not be the case with other bookmarking services. | yakorevivan wrote: | danielovichdk wrote: | I bookmarked this comments page because it has a lot of great | tools | aantix wrote: | I developed a product, Critical Context. Shared bookmarking and | search for software teams. | | You share a document with your team. E.g. "best cloud vendors". | | Then for that document, each team member installs a bookmarklet, | and collectively contributes to the research by submitting | bookmarks, search queries, and screen shots. | | Helpful if your team is collectively researching vendors, | frameworks, etc. | | Works well for my individual needs too. | | https://critical.cx/ | pizzicato wrote: | I use Pocket quite a bit. | | I've also recently cobbled together a CLI tool that lets me save | discussion threads on Reddit, HN and Stack Exchange. Very much a | beginner-level project but here it is in case anyone is | interested: | | https://github.com/PizzaMyHeart/filum | aiisjustanif wrote: | Pinboard forever | ews wrote: | I switched from pinboard.in / del.icio.us (the social aspect was | becoming less and less important) to a workflow based on | braintool (https://braintool.org/) and org-mode TODO and tags, it | completely changed the way I work with bookmarks now. | tconfrey wrote: | Hey this is great to hear @ews (BrainTool dev here). FWIW WRT | this conversation, my long term hope for BrainTool is to | generate a thriving ecosystem of shared curated topic trees, | each one a little summary of a corner of the internet. | circa1977 wrote: | Raindrop.io is great. | theandrewbailey wrote: | Isn't HN a bookmarking service? | night-rider wrote: | Well you could use it that way by adding stuff to your | favourites. A largely unused but useful feature of HN. | dividedbyzero wrote: | HN has a favorites feature? | frosted-flakes wrote: | For posts, it's in the list of button links under the post | title at the top of the discussion page. For comments, you | have to click the timestamp first. | | Note that favourites are public and anyone can see what you | added to your list. If you don't upvote spuriously, upvotes | can also function as a private favourites list. | jrochkind1 wrote: | I totally didn't know/forgot that I can get a list of | everything I upvoted from HN, but yeah, there it is on my | profile! That could have saved me a lot of time in the | past trying to figure out "what was that thing again I | saw on HN last week?" | aquajet wrote: | I've been using upvotes as a way to save things, and then | using a script (https://github.com/anishthite/HN-Saved- | Links-Export) to export them to json so I can search | through them. | quickthrower2 wrote: | I do this sometimes. Enjoyable to read through it once in a | while. | anyfactor wrote: | I literally posted my last post, so I can add it to my | favourites on HN. | mjmsmith wrote: | I use Keep It [1] on macOS/iOS and save pages as PDFs. | | [1] http://reinventedsoftware.com/keepit/ | steve_adams_86 wrote: | I use https://mymind.com | | It's also a good dumping ground for any kind of interesting | snippet, image, or whatever I find interesting. There are some | neat little features for occasionally sorting through your "mind" | and discarding unused information. | | It's not free, but I don't mind because the UI happens to work | well for me. It's thoughtful, well-crafted, and I'm happy to | support them. | asaddhamani wrote: | I made my own [0][1] that saves archives of the pages bookmarked, | stores the browsing history, open tabs, and more. I've open | sourced it but the open source code on GitHub is a bit out of | date. | | [0] https://www.crestify.com [1] | https://www.github.com/dhamaniasad/crestify | quickthrower2 wrote: | Iphone safari is my default bookmarking tool. | causi wrote: | Frankly I just want a progressive bookmark system. I want to be | able to hit Ctrl+D on John Doe's blog site and have the bookmark | keep track of where I was on the site. If I read the first three | posts and then close the tab I want to pick up where I left off | when I open the bookmark. | lamontcg wrote: | I only use bookmarks on firefox so I just sync them with firefox. | | I generally don't open bookmarked pages in chrome, and if I ever | did, I'd just use copy+paste. | bueno wrote: | I recently launched an iOS app that may be relevant here! | | Unlike other apps that save bookmarks that stay unread forever, | Ephemera sets a deadline that the bookmark must be read by. Miss | the deadline, and that bookmark is gone. | | https://deadpan.io/ephemera/ | | I'd love for the hacker news community to check it out! | sqwrell wrote: | I have been using this https://tagpacker.com I was able to import | from my old delicio.us account years ago TagPacker extension is | nice | tacheiordache wrote: | Im using onetab. I setup a shortcut (ctrl+shift+z) and close all | my tabs which I may want back at some point with that shortcut. | This healed me from wanting to hold onto my tabs. I kill them off | with onetab and rarely do I revisit. Just knowing it's there | helps a ton. | ilaksh wrote: | Thanks for the recommendation. This is going to change my life. | | https://www.one-tab.com/ | jqpabc123 wrote: | Brave browser has this built in --- easy access from multiple | devices. | mikece wrote: | Does it allow you to share bookmarks or collections of | bookmarks? | jqpabc123 wrote: | Yes, I share one set of bookmarks between a desktop, a | laptop, a phone and a tablet. | kordlessagain wrote: | I'm still working on https://Mitta.is, which saves sites, PDFs | and images. It has some auto tagging enabled right now, with some | additional GPT3 features coming soon for discussions about | content saved. | jbrun wrote: | I use Instapaper for articles, videos and more. Does not work for | dynamic web apps obviously. | drittich wrote: | I'm still using a clone of https://del.icio.us/ that I wrote in | 2004 after a fit of pique when it went down for a day or two. I | use it almost daily and have amassed 11,490 links as of today, | and most of them have the HTML cached. | | It's kind of fun to track my interests over time by counting tag | frequency, but I mainly use it out of nostalgia and for the mere | constancy of it. | aquajet wrote: | How do you get it to work with sites that are javascript-heavy | or have heavy bot restrictions? I've been trying to make | something similar but spent weeks just fighting edge cases on | HTML not caching correctly. | asdff wrote: | I started just saving web pages I like. Bookmarks are great but | they are so prone to link rot I find, so its better to save a | local copy you can keep forever. | jxramos wrote: | what technique do you use, a pdf printed copy or the | File-->Save as-->Webpage Complete html thing? | mikece wrote: | I haven't thought about it in years... but is Delicious still a | thing? I would think (hope?) there would be an open source, PHP- | based project I could throw onto commodity hosting to collect and | manage bookmarks. If this doesn't exist it should -- and I wonder | how hard it would be to also integrate saving/sharing tab-sets as | well. | night-rider wrote: | You can self host with Wallabag | night-rider wrote: | Pinboard bought del.icio.us | lexa1979 wrote: | What you're looking for is Shaarli => | https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli | | There's a whole community of "shaarlist" in France, you can | also fuse several shaarli in a "river"... Some rivers are my | 2nd HckrNws when I want to read something. | l72 wrote: | I have started doing something completely different than using | bookmarks. I set up yacy[1] on a personal, internal server at my | home, which I can access from all my devices, since they are | always on my wireguard vpn. | | Yacy is actually a distributed search engine, but I run in | 'Robinson mode' as a private peer, to keep it isolated, as I just | want a personal search of only sites I have indexed. | | Anytime I come across something of interest, I index it with | yacy, using a a depth of 0 (since I only want to index that one | page, not the whole site). This way, I can just go to my search | site, and search for something, and anything related that I've | indexed before pops up. I found this works way better than trying | to manage bookmarks with descriptions and tags. | | Also, yacy will keep a cache of the content which is great if the | site ever goes offline or changes. | | If I need to browse, I can go use yacy's admin tools to see all | the urls I have indexed. | | I have been using this for several months and I am using this way | more than I ever used my bookmarks. | | [1] https://yacy.net/ | ericcholis wrote: | This is an incredible idea. | Nition wrote: | What a good idea. A search engine like Kagi could support | importing your existing bookmarks as a custom lense. | pacifika wrote: | Nice! I've been working on and off on a similar idea | (searchable index of link contents) as a cli app eventually web | web frontend. It's on Python so packaging has been an issue. | dopidopHN wrote: | Thanks this look neat. Can you easily share index accros | clients? | | Edit : looks like the docker config allow to mount a arbitrary | folder , that folder can be shared. I don't need it to be | concurrent proof. | | Again, thanks this look nice. | ComputerGuru wrote: | How does yacy handle paywalls? Does it use the cookies from | your browser instance or can it use bypass services like 12ft | and co? | brokenkebab2 wrote: | Can it cache indexed pages? If not how do you deal with | disappearance/changes online? | l72 wrote: | Yes, it does automatically keep a cache from when it indexed | the site. I have it set to not automatically recrawl sites, | so the cache is from when I added the site. | jxm262 wrote: | Ive never even considered something like this before, but its | genius! | | The offline caching sounds awesome. | | Thanks for sharing | BiteCode_dev wrote: | Nice | | I have wished for a while that browser would store the entire | page of any bookmark you save automatically, and put a decent | search engine on it. I wrote a script once to do it for my | bookmarks, and it didn't even take that much space on my hard | drive. | | Your system could be a Firefox addon, kinda like what scrapbook | used to be, but automatic. Even with a note system, and storing | metadata, Zotero style, but without the need for the dual | setup. | srinathkrishna wrote: | This is fascinating! I've been meaning to set something up on a | spare rpi for this and I hadn't heard of yacy before. Thanks! | kybernetikos wrote: | This is great, and is something I've wanted for a while. I use | pinboard which is supposed to have similar capabilities (click | 'search full text', 'search mine' after turning on and paying | for 'archiving'), but I've never been totally confident in it | (pages would change, and the cached version was updated to a | 404 page), and ended up letting my archiving subscription | lapse. | | I think google used to offer something that did this as well as | search all your local files, but I think that went the way of | all gThings. | danesparza wrote: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance | kybernetikos wrote: | That's a good one, but I was thinking of | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Desktop | | > Google Desktop was a computer program with desktop search | capabilities, created by Google for Linux, Apple Mac OS X, | and Microsoft Windows systems. It allowed text searches of | a user's email messages, computer files, music, photos, | chats, _Web pages viewed_ , and the ability to display | "Google Gadgets" on the user's desktop in a Sidebar. | | Discontinued in September 2011 | mitchdoogle wrote: | There's also https://historio.us/ - it's essentially same as | what OP is doing but it's as easy as bookmarking | kybernetikos wrote: | That does look pretty cool, and unusually for a SaaS has | chosen a pricing I think is reasonable for the service (not | everything should be $9 a month!). | | Do you know if it does pdfs? That's a key thing I want in | this kind of service. | mitchdoogle wrote: | If anybody is interested in this, there is also a service which | offers very similar thing: https://historio.us/ | stavros wrote: | That's mine! Feel free to drop a line if you need anything. | cupofpython wrote: | "i like historious" as the only review at the bottom gave | me a laugh for some reason | jrib wrote: | product looks very promising! | | Some UI feedback: I went to check out https://historio.us/ | and on my macbook air I saw the top of the green button | "see our plans". Took me a couple of clicks until I | realized I had to scroll down to click the real "plans and | pricing" button that was off my screen. | stavros wrote: | Ahh, thanks! The same link is at the top, but I'll see if | I can reposition. | ryan29 wrote: | I have 3 tech related subscriptions; BorgBase, JetBrains, | and historio.us. I self-host _everything_ , but I've never | found anything that replaces historio.us. It indexes just | enough to always get me a complete copy of the data I want | cached and the search results are just right. I often have | about 1 page of search results when I'm looking for old | info and I can pick out the page I'm looking for instantly. | | I use it a lot when I'm learning something new. As I'm | looking for beginner info I'll often find more advanced | stuff that I'd like to try or learn at some point, but I | don't have a good enough understanding to know if it's | truly useful info. I historify those sites and move on | knowing that I can find it in my historio.us search at a | later date. | | I also reference cached pages in a lot of my personal docs. | I recently started using ArchiveBox for that, but the | search doesn't make it a good replacement for the above use | case. | | I've been using historio.us since 2011 (!) and have never | found anything to replace it. Great job! | stavros wrote: | Thanks, I'm glad you like it! I really should give it | some love, but I'd need to do a fairly sizable rewrite | for most stuff... | omitmyname wrote: | That's amazing! I wanted to make something similar. Thank you! | hcarvalhoalves wrote: | Didn't know about yacy - interesting! Thank you | [deleted] | Veen wrote: | I'd love something similar to automatically crawl and index | every site I visit. I'm forever losing stuff. I know I saw it | but I can't remember where. | nix23 wrote: | Use the yacy-proxy funktion. | chillpenguin wrote: | I use BrowserParrot for this. Works really well. | | https://www.browserparrot.com/ | dingleberry420 wrote: | > Right now we only support MacOS | mttjj wrote: | This is Mac only and I have no affiliation other than I like | this developer but your request reminded me that he just | launched this app: https://andadinosaur.com/launch-history- | book | prepend wrote: | That's a really genius idea. I also like the author's | pricing mode. I was fearing some stupid "$10 is just the | price of coffee. This is worth 24 coffees a year for the | rest of your life" and have a reasonable $7 purchase price. | asselinpaul wrote: | https://heyday.xyz comes to mind | fudged71 wrote: | Vortimo | akrymski wrote: | I use Google for this. It's really annoyingly good at finding | previously visited pages. | thinkmassive wrote: | ArchiveBox documents how to automatically archive links from | your browser history: | | https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Usage#Import-l. | .. | jrochkind1 wrote: | Nice! How about getting it to automatically index your whole | search history? | | Not what you're going for -- you don't have a list of | specifically opted-in 'bookmarks' to browse. | | but I have often wanted "wait, what was that site involving X I | was looking at maybe last week?" | pmoriarty wrote: | It would also be nice to be able to search through my | aggregated browsing history on every device I use. | | Maybe I should open a feature request to Google/Fracebook to | provide an API hook for that, since they probably already | have all that information anyway. | jrochkind1 wrote: | Facebook doesn't share data out in APIs! | hbarka wrote: | This. I wonder if there is a way to direct my searches | first to the domains I have ever visited. Oftentimes I will | search for something that I am sure I've hit before but can | vaguely remember which result set it was that scored my | search. | Jarwain wrote: | My chrome history appears to aggregate my browsing across | devices Anyways, so it should just be a matter of exposing | that info | nix23 wrote: | Yes works, you just need to use the proxy function of yacy, | and everything get s indexed. | a5huynh wrote: | A bit different, but I've been building something similar that | runs locally: https://github.com/a5huynh/spyglass | | You create some rules for topics you want to index and it'll go | out and crawl them. Searching through it is a global hotkey | away. | mejutoco wrote: | This is how I always imagined the search engines of the future | to work. All the data is local first and the user is in | control. | obaid wrote: | I have been looking into this lately as well. My problem is that | even if I visit back those pages, I don't remember the context of | why I bookmarked it. | | I have been toying with a chrome extension that enables me to add | "annotations" to these pages and it helps me find websites based | on my note search. It's far from perfect but I realized that I | remember my notes / thoughts more than the website url or name. | kirubakaran wrote: | https://histre.com/ lets you add notes and highlights to your | bookmarks, if that's what you're looking for. Disclosure: I'm | working on it. | obaid wrote: | Neat. I will check it out! | res0nat0r wrote: | I just use buku now and sync the db file via Dropbox | pomatic wrote: | My incredibly unsophisticated, but surprisingly effective | approach, is to share by email with myself (e.g. mail to | myname+bookmark@mydomain.com). | | Mail rules can then file them, I can add any relevant notes or | hashtags to the mail body at the time I share the link, and the | chronological ordering is helpful. Imap search is usually 'good | enough' to turn up a half-remembered link or article. | | I have been meaning to add an imap script to complement this with | something like a simplepage archive, but have never got round to | it. | blaydator wrote: | Email rocks for this. I have developed an app to email myself | in one click : https://boomerang-app.io | moozeek wrote: | Thank you for making Boomerang. I use it all the time on my | tablet and phone. | LanternLight83 wrote: | I like this, and will be changing my mail situation in the near | future, when I might take some inspiration c: | icy wrote: | Hah, you might like my project https://forlater.email. :) | throwaway23234 wrote: | small critical comment, if btc is not preferred, remove the | option, or don't say that. That may be meaningful to you, but | not to anyone else. | joebob42 wrote: | It was meaningful to me. To me it meant "the other options | are better for me, but I'll take payment in btc if that's | the best option for you. Here's the link for that" | | Not sure what the harm is? | videogreg93 wrote: | For the record, just tried this with my protonmail and the | response went straight to spam. | nso wrote: | Took me a while to parse the name, forlater is a verb meaning | "leaving" in Norwegian. "Jeg forlater deg" = "I am leaving | you" | [deleted] | jfk13 wrote: | Hah, to me it looked like an ASCII-fied version of the | Swedish word verb meaning "forgive". | | "Jag forlater dig" = "I forgive you". | tenzo wrote: | https://www.instapaper.com | tin7in wrote: | I'm storing links in Apple Notes or in the notes software I am | building myself (https://saga.so) | ecliptik wrote: | I use Raindrop.io and have it hooked up to NewsBlur and | ArchiveBox as secondary backups [1]. | | This way whenever something is bookmarked it's saved in Newsblur | and published to Dropbox, which ArchiveBox picks up every hour | and saves a local copy and to archive.org. | | 1. https://www.ecliptik.com/bookmarking-with-raindrop/ | megaman821 wrote: | I also use Raindrop.io. It is the nicest looking of the | bookmarking services. | kaffeeringe wrote: | Yes. The app in Nextcloud is great. | johncalvinyoung wrote: | I still use Instapaper, though their mobile apps are not terribly | useful, and very slow. Mostly I just use it to bookmark things--I | read so voraciously that searching through 25 new bookmarks a day | is way easier than searching through 250+ history entries a day, | not to mention Chrome isn't indexing every page I've visited. | teepo wrote: | I use an org mode capture template and a couple browser | extensions. Dead simple for bookmarks and surfacing the context | inside Emacs. - I have two use cases: 1. a simple bookmark I want | to revisit (maybe) and 2. A bookmark with an excerpt from the | page. I can copy in the material I want to capture all withe the | same process. | njharman wrote: | What's a bookmarking service? | night-rider wrote: | Pinboard is still quite active. If you need proof just go to | /recent which is a live firehose and interesting to see what | people are bookmarking. I use Pinboard and regularly export my | bookmarks incase their servers are hacked/wiped/corrupted. | ghaff wrote: | That actually reminds me I haven't done an export in a looong | time and I should. | | I was using Magnolia before Pinboard and it went down | permanently. Fortunately, at the time, I was doing link blog | posts once or twice a week so I was able to recover most of my | links with a bit of work. | benrapscallion wrote: | As a paying customer, I would not recommend pinboard. Just look | at some recent discussions on HN. It has been abandonware for | years now. | rglullis wrote: | Is it failing for you? Would you switch to some other | alternative? | santoshalper wrote: | Exactly, I hate the idea that software has to be constantly | updated. That's how we end up with so many bloated messes | that started out simple ( _cough_ dropbox _cough_ ). | Pinboard is simple, and for my needs at least, perfect. If | he kept it in maintenance mode forever, I'd be fine with | that. | warmwaffles wrote: | Ah yes, this is why Hackernews is now abandonware. /s | paulcole wrote: | Part of it is definitely that Pinboard as a service (feels | to be at least) is in "maintenance mode" with minimal | support. But what new features does a bookmarking service | need? | | Part of it is also that tech bros are upset that Maciej | didn't go full-coinbase and is instead pretty active | socially/politically. | | I'm happy to keep using it and paying for it. Works fine | for my needs. | laveer wrote: | I switched from Pinboard to Raindrop after not getting a | response to pinboard support emails. I hope Pinboard's | creator is okay. | benrapscallion wrote: | Likewise. I switched to Raindrop.io. | sleepyhead wrote: | Probably busy tweeting | mortenjorck wrote: | His last tweet is from December, declaring he'd spend a | year off Twitter. He's made it halfway so far! | tsp wrote: | Same for me. Got an answer to my support requests months | later. I left long time ago (to Raindrop). | [deleted] | incanus77 wrote: | Paying customer ~4 years here (prior use for years). Happy | with it. Use it for extensive private bookmarking. | mikestew wrote: | _It has been abandonware for years now_ | | I pay to keep the servers running, not so I can have | something new and shiny every month. If it somehow quits | doing what pinboard does, then I'll look at alternatives. | benrapscallion wrote: | Well, the archiving hasn't been working. | nafizh wrote: | Paying customer. Really happy with it. None of the other | options compare in terms of functionality and minimalism. | helipad wrote: | I pay for Pinboard with archiving, in fact my 5 year archiving | was about to expire to paid for 10 years. | | The entropy of links is staggering. I'm glad to have archives of | some of the oldest links. | niqdev wrote: | Hi, | | these are similar threads | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22158218 | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22105561 | | I personally ended up building my own solution with the following | requirements * easy to export or convert later e.g. json * simple | to build/maintain e.g. github action + hugo * easy to access from | the phone e.g. telegram | | These are my bookmarks https://myawesome.dev and this is the | template https://github.com/my-awesome/my-awesome-template | | it's not perfect but it cover my needs ;-) | bazmattaz wrote: | I've tried every app under the sun over the last few years but | found myself not using them after awhile. | | In the end I just email myself links and it works a treat. My | emails are bookmarks are in the same place | jascii wrote: | I just copy the url to a plain text file, wget and grep if I need | to find something and can't remember what's what. | derekzhouzhen wrote: | For private stuff I only bookmark locally. For non-private stuff | I use https://roastidio.us | daniel_iversen wrote: | Yes I looove Instapaper still after many years | looknround wrote: | I still fill up my bookmarks bar with folders and use Skrollo.com | to store all my memes/fun stuffs. | mmcdermott wrote: | A few years ago, I started using a wiki as a sort of all | encompassing knowledgebase. In time, my wiki took over even using | browser bookmarks. When I found a link that I wanted to remember, | I would include a link to it in the context of the entry. The | upshot is that I always had context for what I wanted or thought | about the link. | lukaszkups wrote: | Similarly to other commenters here, I would like to share my | approach: | | - if it's an article related to my interests and that fits for | the overall contents I share on twitter - I simply tweet about | it. | | - if it's code-related (e.g. github repo) - I just "star" it | | - if it's something else - it depends what category it is, | because I have two bookmark folders in the browser: "4 later" (so | that if something seems to be interesting but I don't have time | right now to read it) or "saved" folder where I just put | something that I would like to have bookmarked (I've also have | then nested year sub-folders (as I don't bookmark THAT often that | this approach wouldn't be sufficient for me)). | | - if something is very important for me, I simply send an e-mail | to myself with tagged content so I can easily find it through | e-mail search engine later - I have a dedicated e-mail suffix for | this (imagine xyz+bookmark@gmail.com) and it automatically goes | archived into "bookmarks" folder instead to inbox. | igaray wrote: | After I reached around 7-8k bookmarks the only thing that worked | for me is an orgmode text file in a git repo, but it's true that | I don't need fancy syncing or sharing/social features. | freediver wrote: | I use TinyGem (disclaimer: creator) as a reading list/bookmarking | tool | | https://tinygem.org | | My public feed https://tinygem.org/tomcat/ | marban wrote: | Does Reddit support lookups by url? Since you're linking to | comment threads. | freediver wrote: | Not really, there is some code involved to do that. | marcomezzavilla wrote: | miiiiiike wrote: | I use Google Keep. It's amazing. It's one of those side tabs on | GMail that you close when you first start a new account and never | look at again. | | I use the web and iOS version (through "share") half a dozen | times a day. | | https://keep.google.com/ | danesparza wrote: | You just wait. You're going to get hooked. Then Google is going | to take it away. I used Google Reader daily until Google taketh | away. | | I'm not bitter, or anything. | doubled112 wrote: | Miniflux is pretty good though. | nafizh wrote: | I used to use Keep. But have switched to pinboard for the last | 8 months and incredibly happy about it. Just don't want to wake | up one morning and see Google is shutting it down and go | through all the hassle that comes with it. | chaostheory wrote: | Yup, still using pinboard. It's cheap and easy to use with no | maintenance which imo is expensive | Overtonwindow wrote: | My bookmarks have not changed in a long time. I use the same | bookmarks. I never really use the service, because I never really | use bookmarks all that much, I'll just Google something. I found | the bookmarks get on wielding and I start losing track of them | and I start having lists of bookmarks that are 9 years old. | | Rather than bookmarks I use Pocket. It's been very helpful | especially for articles and technical websites that I want to be | able to reference later. | themadturk wrote: | I'm also a heavy Pocket user, though a few things I clip into | OneNote. | dzuc wrote: | https://www.are.na/ | comboy wrote: | I use Zim. | | Not much different from just having a text file. Easy to backup, | can grep keywords etc. Lack of sync is a disadvantage so I | sometimes use "note to self" on signal when I want to save | something from mobile. | thefourthchime wrote: | I tweet it. There's always an option to tweet anything anywhere. | | Nobody reads my Twitter except me, so it works fine. | jazzyjackson wrote: | I've had too many bookmarks go offline a few years after the | fact, so now I just print anything interesting to PDF (I use | safari's "Share" button and send it to DEVONthink, two clicks and | I have a permenant archive sorted into categories.) | have_faith wrote: | I'd rather not use a 3rd party service. All I really need is the | bookmarking UX already built into the browser but behind the | scenes it captures the contents of the link (locally) and stores | it against the bookmark. Bonus points if it asks where I want the | bookmarks and their snapshots to be stored/synced to. | | Does such a plugin exist? | aquajet wrote: | I've been working on a solution to this: https://diva.so mainly | cause I had the same issue. | | It's a third-party service unfortunately, but it can index the | contents of your bookmarks + other sources to let you search | them. I haven't got it to work locally yet since the search | needs a decently large server to work (I want to use a LLM | eventually) but I do encrypt all data. I don't know how it | compares to similar systems linked here, but I'm down to try to | help you out to set it up in a way to your liking. | bhub wrote: | I used to use pinboard[1] but since I started dicking around with | self hosting I use Wallabag[2] for "read it later" articles and | linkding [0] for saving links that I want to refer to later. | Linkding is pretty much a self hosted pinboard | | [0] https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding | | [1] http://pinboard.in/ | | [2] https://www.wallabag.it/en | dawnerd wrote: | Wallabag is pretty great, the chrome extension is nice too. | throwawayjun21 wrote: | I have been using Firebox for a long time. | wrycoder wrote: | Firefox bookmarks (three layers deep) plus Instapaper for random | non-technical articles. | jandrusk wrote: | I use Slack as my bookmark manager ;) Have my own personal Slack | workspace where I have various channels for certain types of | bookmarks(coding/emacs/history,etc). On my Debian box at home I | have weechat with the weeslack plugin where my weechat instance | runs in a tmux session 24X7 and I log everything locally to disk. | That way I can just open up the Slack log for a given channel to | find a specific bookmark in Emacs via search/regex search. Have | Slack clients at work, mobile, and home, so it seems to work | pretty good for me. | bhaney wrote: | I just leave the tab open forever | bravasaurus wrote: | This is how I discovered Safari on iOS has a hard limit of 500 | open tabs. Rather horrifyingly, when you try to open tab number | 501, it asks if you want to close all open tabs. | TillE wrote: | It's strange to me that browsers - both desktop and mobile - | aren't more aggressive about "paging out" unused tabs. I end | up just restarting Firefox now and then when I'm not ready to | do a full cleanup. | | Even with the fancy mobile interface you really just need to | store a thumbnail (plus the URL and title) for each tab, and | even an older iPhone should have little trouble scrolling | through thousands of tiny images. | hhh wrote: | I haven't ever had issues with hundreds of tabs on iOS. It | just works for me. | zaphodq42 wrote: | one of best comment I have read. | jrochkind1 wrote: | same | twblalock wrote: | I've pretty much stopped using bookmarks. | | I used to have a large amount of bookmarks, carefully sorted into | folders. I didn't use most of them on a regular basis, and the | links broke over time. The end result was a bunch of broken | bookmarks. | | The combination of autocomplete, history, and web searches seems | good enough to find anything I want. | chrisan wrote: | Ya, the only bookmarks I use these days are the ones in | Firefox's bookmark toolbar which are more there for quick | access purposes than saving interesting articles | bradneuberg wrote: | I think most people's "bookmarking service" these days, including | myself, is to just have an extra browser window that has a | million "read later" tabs. | hackermanve wrote: | been there, i have a folder "TOREAD" | dizhn wrote: | I use the Simple Tab Groups extension. Some of my tab group | names: "Good Articles", "Work but Later" | | (As a bonus they get backed up automatically including my | pinned tab which Firefox loves to lose.) | BlackForestBoy wrote: | I found bookmarking tools often lacking a more holistic | integration into research workflows that are not just about | saving things, but also taking notes. | | We've developed Memex to solve for that. It's an offline first | extension for bookmarking and annotating websites, pdfs and | youtube videos. Also you can collaboratively curate and discuss | them, and it has a mobile app to save and annotate websites. It's | availabe for Chrome/Brave and Firefox (memex.garden) | | 3min Demo: https://links.memex.garden/3mindemo | delvallejonatan wrote: | https://guardo.io/ does exactly this, it saves the entire page in | case it gets deleted. It comes with a nice search engine where | you can search for any words included in the page you save. | arrosenberg wrote: | I use Raindrop.io. Hits the sweet spot in terms of price and | usability/UX. | gxqoz wrote: | I don't suppose Raindrop has a read-aloud feature? This is one | of my most heavily used features in Pocket. Looking at | Raindrop's features I might be inclined to move if it does | support this. | nostromo wrote: | Apple Notes is where I put urls along with just about everything | else. | | The one and only thing I miss about Delicious is that it was | great to see what other people were saving under a specific tag | or topic. | akrymski wrote: | I do the same, but search really sucks. | | I miss Delicious, and tag based org. | philistine wrote: | I use Pocket to send pages to my RSS reader. | | What I mean by that is if I see a page I want to read later, I | need to have it in NetNewsWire to read it; otherwise I never read | them. So I subscribe to my Pocket account's RSS feed, so whenever | I bookmark something in Pocket, it's ready to be started in | NetNewsWire whenever I get to reading my feeds. | | I'm big on having one destination for all the things I follow. I | follow YouTube accounts through RSS as well. | pro_zac wrote: | This is great! I use Feedly for RSS but didn't realize I could | subscribe to my own Pocket feed. | low_tech_punk wrote: | I use a browser extension to store bookmarks in GitHub | https://github.com/osmoscraft/osmosmemo | | Pros: | | 1) Hostless, GitHub is the backend | | 2) works in multiple browsers | | 3) Has tagging | | Cons: | | 1) No mobile client | | 2) Search is primitive | browningstreet wrote: | I use bookmarks. | leray_J wrote: | Not really bookmarking, but close to, i use | https://www.eesel.app/ | dewey wrote: | I realized that I never go back to my bookmarks and if I really | wanted to find something again I usually am able to. I came to | the same realization with hoarding movies / tv shows. | bombcar wrote: | The only bookmarks I use are to particular pages on particular | systems that I need to reference relatively often and | navigating to them is annoying. | | Otherwise, my bookmarks are the history in the browser - "ne" | is hacker news, "yo" is YouTube, etc. | jeffwask wrote: | This is the state I am rapidly approaching. Outside of Toolbar | quick access stuff I find I always search or it pops up in | history suggestions before I search | baal80spam wrote: | This is great until you need to reinstall the OS/browser and | suddenly everything you typed in the omnibar is gone. | jeffwask wrote: | yeah but I also feel like the occasional purge isn't the | worst thing | hn_version_0023 wrote: | I've also come to this realization. It was one of the more | freeing realizations I've had, along with "I don't have to save | every email I've ever received for all time". | | The weight off my mind from skipping the maintenance, care, and | feeding of various digital libraries is considerable, and I | recommend it to stressed out friends & family. | imiric wrote: | As a counterpoint, I don't go to my bookmarks often, but when I | do, it's invaluable, and I'd feel lost without them. | | Especially with tags, I can quickly find a number of things I | find/found interesting just by using one or two tags. | | I agree about hoarding media, though. But I still like to have | metadata on content I want to watch, and content I've watched | and what I thought about it. | honkycat wrote: | I use the notion web clipper. Works great, I can have multiple | databases for different interests. | djlewald wrote: | Funnily enough, I made a CLI tool recently that bookmarks SSH | connection strings. https://github.com/IamFlowZ/ssh-bm | kristiandupont wrote: | I typically write the URL in my notes if I need to look at it | again for some specific reason. | | For more silly things, I created a private subreddit together | with my brother. We post things that we find interesting enough | to share and re-visit in there, which is quite a nice format. | didip wrote: | I don't use bookmarking services. | | In between: | | 1. Sending email to myself with appropriate keywords. | | 2. Writing them in Notes app. | | 3. and private git repo for my personal knowledge bank. | | I got all my needs covered. | depingus wrote: | https://www.xbrowsersync.org/ | | Locally encrypted, open source, free with no ads or can be self- | hosted. And most importantly, its not tied to any particular | browser. With xBrowserSync for bookmarks and Bitwarden for | passwords, I can browser hop as much as I want. | Oliver-Fish wrote: | I mostly use bookmarks for easy access to commonly used tools and | documentation; however, typically, I suffer from the fact when I | need to share a set of bookmarks, the browser support of | export/import is really awful for both the exporter and importer. | | I encountered it so much that I built a tool in the last few | months to allow sharing of bookmarks natively in the browser. I | didn't want to use a new tool to manage my bookmarks; I just | wanted to enhance the browser bookmark feature with the ability | to share bookmarks. | | https://www.bookmarkllama.com | tr1ll10nb1ll wrote: | I've been using Raindrop. It seems cool. | wild-eep wrote: | I use the browser, mainly just to get autocomplete in the address | bar. | | But, browser bookmark management ranges from barely acceptable to | irritating. Never great, or innovative, like some of these | services. I wish the browser vendors would adopt some of this | stuff. | archi42 wrote: | For private use: I rarely bookmark anything anymore. Lots of info | is easy to find (e.g. Arch Linux Wiki) and reasonable reliable. | Also my password manager has a list of all accounts with | associated URLs, so I can search that. | | For work I have a wider variety of information. I'm often doing | Pentests, so I read up on related research a lot. Since I can't | keep every minor detail in my head, I bookmark interesting things | in the browser; that's then backed up, but that's about it. | | As a typical tech hobby, I run a few home servers and recently | got myself an "always on" machine. Now I'm looking at self hosted | services my family and/or I could genuinely benefit from. | Bookmark sync between my work laptops could be nice, but Yacy | mentioned in the top comment is insanely attractive - indexing | (+archiving?) beats bookmarking. | coastflow wrote: | I use Evernote. It's the last "killer feature" of the platform. | The software is too slow and clunky for taking notes (OneNote or | Apple's stock Notes app are far better for this), even after the | somewhat-recent update that improved performance, but it succeeds | at saving webpages where other services fail. I tried to switch | to OneNote's web clipper, but too often it could only save a link | instead of clipping the page. Evernote also works on iOS. | | There was an interesting comment on r/Evernote by a former | employee who worked there about why the clipper works so well | (link: | https://www.reddit.com/r/Evernote/comments/fbf8an/comment/fj...), | based on acquisitions of other companies, custom code for certain | websites, and a willingness to test websites where clipping | doesn't work and (eventually) fix them. | | However, there are issues with clipping on desktop Safari | (occasionally there are bugs for periods of time, until fixes are | implemented in an update), and sometimes clipping does break for | certain websites (though this eventually gets fixed). I also find | searching can take effort to find specific past web clips, though | I'm not sure if the services is actually worse than before. | | Web clipping is the last reason I'm staying with Evernote, | writing as a user who has paid money in an attempt to migrate | notes to another service (then finding that the other service was | inadequate for web clipping). | pqs wrote: | On my 4 year old Windows 10 ThinkPad laptop it now works very | fast. I have 20k notes. At the beginning it was very clunky, | now it works very well. At least this is my experience. | anotherman554 wrote: | I use Evernote as well. But for some stuff I'd rather be | encrypted I find Joplin is a good open source Evernote | alternative that lets you encrypt entire notebooks. Joplin's | web clipper seems to work fine on Desktop though I've never | tried it on mobile. | RandomWorker wrote: | Totally agree, application is weak. Don't understand the new | listing and task management features. It just seems like a | distraction.. why not have a proper table editor before you | start adding new features. Also, the time to startup should be | much shorter. I suggest they make a simple version of the tool, | just list on the left (simplify the notebooks, and tags, etc). | Get rid of the homepage. However, I just can't leave that | clipper. | | Even the simple fact that you can screenshot a part of the | screen, annotate it, a toss it on the heap is so awesome. I | don't worry about space, I don't worry about finding it. Search | is really great on Evernote even picks up the text in images | way..... before any tool was doing that. | | Also, you can actually save the content of a page to a note | (not just a link with an avatar). This is great for recipes | that once you found it, you can never seem to find it ever | again on google. Having a copy of that particular recipe with | the right mix of ingredients I still have laying around. | PERFECT! | pqs wrote: | Tasks might seem a distraction to you but they have | simplified my life a lot. They are central to my workflow and | I'm glad they introduced them. | pointlessone wrote: | I use DEVONthink to keep a local copy (WebArchive) of interesting | pages. On top of obvious bookmarking features like tags I get | good search, annotations, and preservation to name a few things. | Preservation is underrated. I have quite a few pages that are no | longer available on the web (even in various archives). | walterbell wrote: | DevonThink is one of those rare old-school apps which support | open-standard protocols, e.g. self-hosted (FreeNAS/TrueNAS) | WebDAV for sync of archives between iOS and macOS. | | _> Preservation is underrated. I have quite a few pages that | are no longer available on the web (even in various archives)._ | | Lire is an RSS reader that can archive the full text of all | articles, even if the RSS feed is limited. Allows offline | reading and mitigates the risk of blogs disappearing. | http://lireapp.com/ | micromacrofoot wrote: | I pay for Pinboard but don't actually use it, I just like Maciej | simonw wrote: | I use Pocket, then I have my own tool that exports my data from | Pocket to SQLite: https://datasette.io/tools/pocket-to-sqlite | gxqoz wrote: | Awesome, I've been looking for something like this forever! I | use Pocket a ton and make lots of highlights. But its search | and archive features have been practically unusable for 3 years | for me despite frequent complaints to support. | gxqoz wrote: | Bummer, though, since it looks like Pocket's API doesn't | export the highlights or any metadata about them. Unless it's | hidden in the "fts" or whatever that is. | abnry wrote: | For a couple years I've been working on a personal Flask App that | will collect and organize my SingleFile [1] downloads. Uses | inotify to automatically detect a SingleFile generated html file | and processes it into a database, where it also creates a | screenshot thumbnail. | | Been working great for me so far, and definitely help me improve | my coding skills. One of the things I like the most is that it | records the time I downloaded the SingleFile page, which means I | can view a timeline of bookmarks. It is nice to visually review | over the month what I decided to save, often as a way to | reinforce what I learned. | | [1] | https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/singlefile/mpiodij... | mark_h wrote: | I recently started actively bookmarking pages again recently | (after being an early Pinboard customer, but not a particularly | busy one). I wrote a script to email me 5 random bookmarks every | day, so now I treat bookmarking as a "like" button; something I | find interesting at the time, and may want to rediscover in the | future. I rarely use bookmarks to find something I'm searching | for though. | andyjohnson0 wrote: | Sites and pages that i use get bookmarked in Firefox and synced | to my devices. | | Notable things that ai might need in the future go into Notion | with (critically) some notes on context and why theyre important. | If i xant be bothered to write any notes then its not important | enough to be added. | hegzploit wrote: | I'm using raindrops across all my devices for curating links and | tagging them. | | It's a nice tool. | hegzploit wrote: | Raindrop* | focusedone wrote: | Pockey + Pocket 2 Kindle for things I want to read later. | Otherwise, HN favorites and digging through Firefox history / | other devices to find that one page whatwasitcalled | IknowIreadthatyesterday. | longnguyen wrote: | Did you run into any trouble or limitations with this setup? | RheingoldRiver wrote: | I have literally thousands of bookmarks in Firefox that I use for | their keyword aliases and manage by regex. But I don't think | that's what you meant. | | I also have several hundred "normal" bookmarks across several | folders. Documentation, Hobby, "randomly cool," etc. But I | definitely lose a lot of content that I wish I didn't. | abruzzi wrote: | I haven't bookmarked anything in over 20 years. I just use my | memory + search. Obviously bookmarking can retain far more than | my memory, but my use of the web is deep, not wide (i.e. small | number of sites, used heavily) so is easily handled by local site | search engines. | viburnum wrote: | I've been really happy with "Save as PDF" into my Dropbox folder. | If you use Safari's reader mode before you save it's especially | nice and the files are small. Works great with spotlight search | and accessible on mobile. | ubersnack wrote: | I've started using History Book on iOS/macOS, runs as an | extension in safari and can automatically save a copy of every | page for easy searching later | DHPersonal wrote: | For articles to read later I use the Safari Reading List. To | store bookmarks I use GoodLinks | (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/goodlinks/id1474335294) that syncs | via iCloud and has iOS and macOS apps to store and display the | collection. To catch any articles I may forget to store I use the | Safari extension History Book | (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/history-book-browse-search/id1...) | that saves a searchable article list to return to later. | klausjensen wrote: | I use Pinboard - and I always tag my bookmarks. Then I usually | never look at them again. | kkfx wrote: | I generally archive as pdf ONLY things really interesting me, in | org-mode/org-roam managed notes as org-attachments, most other | links are just noted with a not-that-good but the best I found | combo: | | - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-as-org-m... | and https://github.com/kuanyui/copy-as-org-mode | | - https://beepb00p.xyz/promnesia.html and | https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia and | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/promnesia/ | | - https://beepb00p.xyz/grasp.html and | https://github.com/karlicoss/grasp/ and | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grasp | | The first to quickly copy text from html, the second to see if | something is already noted, the third to quickly archive the | bookmark. In the past I've used Zotero witch works automatically | VERY well (and on deduplicated storage does not consume so much | disk space) but since it's a kind of walled-garden in the sense I | can't really integrate it in anything else I decide to have a bit | less features but hyper-superior integration with org-mode. | 5evOX5hTZ9mYa9E wrote: | I just create a note in my personal wiki/notes and leave it there | with enough metadata that I can later find it. If it makes sense, | I also take a snapshot via archive.is or ghostarchive.org if it | makes sense (the website is not a web-app). | nikivi wrote: | My bookmarking service is Alfred workflow I wrote: | https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/alfred-my-mind | | It searches through links in my wiki: | https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge | creativityland wrote: | Yes and depending on what. | | - Notable things that are urgent gets emailed to myself. | | - Sites and pages get bookmarked in the browser | | - Notes and tasks are added directly into an extension like | Notion [0] or Taskade [1] or Pocket [2] and synced to all my | devices | | ---- | | [0] - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/notion-web- | clipper... | | [1] - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/taskade-team- | tasks... | | [2] - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-to- | pocket/nil... | cabbagesauce wrote: | With FF it's Tab Stash for me[0]. Then I export to Chrome when I | have a period of using it as my main browser. | | For portability, I use a public Telegram channel that I post | interesting links to for later reading. Given the web version | doesn't require to be logged in and has a search bar it's very | good for accessing everything you have. | | [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-stash/ | SoftTalker wrote: | I used to use instapaper quite a bit, but when I figured out that | I almost never went back and read any of my saved links, I | stopped. | | If I'm not interested enough to read the link now, I almost | certainly am not going to read it later. | | Sort of the same reason I don't take photos anymore. I never go | back and look at them, so it's just a waste of time and a | distraction from being really present in the moment. | gnuj3 wrote: | You might change your mind about looking back at photos in 20 | years and you probably gonna regret your current approach | dusted wrote: | I've never had to, all the browsers I've ever used had bookmark | support. | tpoacher wrote: | I do use bookmarks, but usually it's about crudely saving a | session for easy access, to continue from where I left off the | next day more than anything. | | If I want to save a page for future reference because it's useful | more generally, I actually have a special "References" deck in | Anki for that, which has various useful levels of categorization | applied. | | Similarly, if it's an article I want to queue for serious future | reading, I have a "Reading" deck. After reading (and potentially | after having been converted to anki notes in the Main deck) notes | from the reading deck go either in the Archived deck after | reading, or in the References deck accordingly. | xeromal wrote: | I use my browser's bookmarks bar. | KolenCh wrote: | I use the Pocket free tier. | | Then I use the web export function there to export it to xml. | | I wrote a script that would read that xml and pull (and if not | available, fall back to archive.org) and cache (so only new | bookmarks are downloaded) the sites, and built an offline version | for archival and searching. | SN76477 wrote: | I use the notion web clipper, then tag in Notion. | goddamnyouryan wrote: | I created yet another place for me to store all my own bookmarks: | https://link.horse | | I mostly wanted to be able to categorize bookmarks within | multiple tags, and easily be able to save them, using a | bookmarklet. | gnuj3 wrote: | Is this going to exist one year from now? | devinegan wrote: | I use a self-hosted docker image of Wallabag. Has worked well for | years and replaced Pinboard for me. | ibobev wrote: | For some types of bookmarks I started to use a GitHub | repositories with a markdown document in them. Those are my | bookmarks collected mainly through HN: | | - A list of freely available articles, tutorials, book about | programming, math and science: | https://github.com/bobeff/programming-math-science | | - A list of open source games: https://github.com/bobeff/open- | source-games | Kerrick wrote: | I use the bookmark feature built into my web browser, which also | syncs with my smartphone. For bookmarks I want to share publicly, | I just drop them onto a hand-coded HTML page on my website: | https://kerricklong.com/bookmarks/ | askafriend wrote: | I stopped because I realized it was hoarding-behavior more than | anything meaningful or productive. | | I still do it occasionally, but I'm not longer obsessive about it | the way I might have been in the past. | FunnyBadger wrote: | The internet is far too "entropic" to trust bookmarks alone. This | has been a clear failing of the web since the 1990s. | | I've literally been downloading pages since then to have a local | image. I've written various native code tools to extract text, | index that and then markup the files with keywords and then | create a local search engine back. | | SO MUCH is shadow-edited, deleted or lost. It's foolish to rely | on ANYTHING online for more than a year or even less. If it | matters you must have a full archive. | | When PDFs are referenced (e.g. scientific papers - I have 1000s | of COVID papers), I download those and index them. | | This is also why I never rely on e-books - I order a hard copy | because in 20-100 years, it will ONLY be the paper version that | will still be around. | AndrewDucker wrote: | Pinboard too. Pretty happy with it. | TavsiE9s wrote: | I'm still using pinboard to access bookmarks on multiple devices. | Cryptoclidus wrote: | pinboard.in | eterps wrote: | Yes, but in combination with highlights and annotation (I use | diigo.com). memex.garden is a similar offering, although I | haven't used it myself. | lonelyasacloud wrote: | Yes. Have used for years and pay for https://www.diigo.com/ . | | As a service it doesn't appear to be being actively developed, | but it is reliable, isn't too fugly and has the required | functionallity (multiplatform/browser/mobile support, good | search, read later, tags, highlighting, sticky notes, private and | public libraries and archiving for important stuff) in a | reasonably easy to use form. | | diigo's not perfect by any means - automated tagging suggestions | could benefit from ML pixie dust - but certainly the best first | stage of research and web page archiving solution I've found | (compared to DevonThink, Pocket, Evernote, InstaPaper, A's Notes | (and a few others I've forgotten)) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-06-23 23:00 UTC)