[HN Gopher] Show HN: Keep your bookmarks clean and up-to-date
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Show HN: Keep your bookmarks clean and up-to-date
Author : neiman1
Score : 49 points
Date : 2022-02-22 18:29 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| KennyBlanken wrote:
| The cost of a dead bookmark hanging around is virtually zero and
| nowhere near the overhead (and small but non-zero risk) of
| another extension.
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| Sometimes there is value in knowing that a site has gone under,
| versus you not being able to remember the URL.
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| One can fetch dead URLs via Wayback machine.
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| The chances of a site (or several) temporarily being unreachable
| out of all my bookmarks is very much non-zero and I could see
| this plugin trimming bookmarks unnecessarily.
| vehemenz wrote:
| Sometimes a page is moved but not deleted. If you have some
| metadata, then you can find the page again.
| imwillofficial wrote:
| Any HN tips on heuristics for bookmark management?
| vymague wrote:
| More for read it later services like pocket, but I like
| https://medium.com/life-hacks/fighting-information-overload-...
|
| Basically delete everything every week.
| modzu wrote:
| yet another speed dial (thats the name):
|
| https://github.com/conceptualspace/yet-another-speed-dial
| raspyberr wrote:
| Bookmarked to do later.
| swframe2 wrote:
| I started send myself email. I have a filter which moves them to
| a dedicated folder. I sometimes post the content of the webpage
| into the body of the email if I worry the site might go away. I
| will reply to my messages when I want to save additional notes
| and related information.
| financetechbro wrote:
| In case you didn't know - if you email an article in 'reader
| mode' it will automatically copy the text to the body of the
| email as well as including the hyper link to the webpage
| hammyhavoc wrote:
| Would love to see a Firefox version of this.
| neiman1 wrote:
| Planning to add Firefox support soon!
| adparadox wrote:
| If anyone is looking for a hosted solution for bookmarks, I've
| been building devmarks.io on the side for the past few months
| which automatically syncs GitHub stars, Twitter likes, Hacker
| News favorites, and Pinboard.in bookmarks into one central
| location. Bookmarks can be added manually. I also retrieve extra
| metadata for developer-centric sites (think: number of forks and
| stars from GitHub repos, version numbers from PyPI, publish date
| from dev.to articles, etc). I automatically keep all of the
| bookmark data up to date once a day and back up the content in a
| readable format without ads or annoying pop-ups. I'd love to hear
| any feedback if you try it out!
| [deleted]
| anthropodie wrote:
| Do yourself a favor and use one of the below tools instead of
| browser based bookmarks
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| 1. LinkAce: Save your bookmarks and organize them with tags and
| lists. The bookmarked page is gone? No worries. LinkAce
| automatically links it to archive.org page.
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| 2. Shiori: Save bookmarks, archive them or use it like pocket.
| Like LinkAce you can organize your bookmarks using tags
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| [1]: https://www.linkace.org/ | https://github.com/Kovah/LinkAce/
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| [2]: https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori
| aunlead wrote:
| I thought the Shiori project was dead. Great to see it's got a
| new maintainer. A new release also dropped after 2 years. [1]:
| https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori/discussions/376
| browningstreet wrote:
| My browser based bookmarks are a far denser and more accessible
| collection of links than any of those links can manage, in
| presentation mode.
|
| I maintain bookmarks across 3 browsers and account profiles and
| groom them regularly and archive them myself and wish browsers
| took bookmarks/favorites more seriously.
| [deleted]
| pronoiac wrote:
| Or Pinboard - https://pinboard.in/ - which can monitor your
| Twitter account, even locked accounts, and automatically
| bookmark and archive links there, and you can search the full
| text for archived links.
|
| Using browser-based bookmarks would definitely be a step
| backwards for me. My phone, my tablet, my laptop and the
| multiple browsers I use there - it's much easier to know where
| I filed something this way, and find it again. Also, I prefer
| tags to folders.
| Hoefner wrote:
| In somewhat relatable thread some people reported problems
| which pinboard faced recently
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30424671 with dead
| support and unstable archiving
| vymague wrote:
| > 2. Shiori: Save bookmarks, archive them or use it like
| pocket.
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| Thanks for the rec. I've been looking for a pocket alternative.
| Just a simple bookmark manager that can archive articles.
| Ideally a desktop app and work offline too. None of that self-
| hosting stuffs.
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| I will give Shiori a try.
|
| edit: Never mind. This is not what I'm looking for.
| kkoncevicius wrote:
| I just don't understand these tools. If someone stores
| bookmarks - why not put them into a text file - one line per
| bookmark, and then search with grep.
| Tagbert wrote:
| Or put them in the browser bookmark store and then search
| using the built-in search?
| grvdrm wrote:
| I feel silly that I never thought of this as a solution. My
| life may change starting today!
| neiman1 wrote:
| Hey HN, this is just a super simple browser extension that I put
| together in a few hours to fix the annoying issue of bookmarks
| becoming outdated (e.g. the bookmarked page being deleted or
| removed). Just run the extension every once in a while to update
| the favicons and move dead sites into a trash folder (where you
| can then decide whether you want to keep or delete them).
|
| Thanks to hrez for the suggestion in this thread:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29796099
|
| --
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| Repo: https://github.com/samueldobbie/remarkable-extension
|
| Chrome Store:
| https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/remarkable/mjmbcbg...
| imwillofficial wrote:
| Great work!
| neiman1 wrote:
| Thanks a lot!
| helb wrote:
| Haven't tried it yet, but potential feature idea - an option to
| try to find these dead bookmarks in archive.org & update the
| links instead of moving them to trash.
| neiman1 wrote:
| Great idea - appreciate you sharing.
| riidom wrote:
| I sometimes rename bookmarks when the name is too verbose and
| not to the point. It may be good to have an option for not
| updating the names.
|
| And in case of dead links maybe prepend the name with "[404]"
| or similar instead of moving?
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