[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
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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))
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