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I'm curious as to the reason for storing bookmarks. It was a feature long ago, before search engines became so powerful. So what exactly is the use case now?

This guy on the Pinboard google group reached TEN THOUSAND bookmarks. For what reason exactly? https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pinboard-dev/JKSUpO6...

Here's another user with A HUNDRED THOUSAND.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/pinboard-dev/JKSUpO67cuA/7Hd...

Ooh, that looks useful, thanks! (I’m approaching the 100k bookmark barrier, and I’m well-behind in tag maintenance over the last couple of years. Thank goodness for full-page search of my archives!)

- Lynne

That sounds like a manual search engine to me?

I tried many times to manage bookmarks in various forms, and it just turns into a giant list that you never revisit. Cathartic to just delete them all.

It sounds like a utility for people who hoard things in general.

Thoughts?

Easy, there are are people who sort everything into a system that often no one besides themselves see through and people who use search. I'm absolutely #1 - I've been filing my emails into a set of folders and I usually find everything I need by just looking through one folder (because sometimes you don't know the keyword or the person, just a vague feeling of "I'll notice when I see it"). In my last job we used GMail and the labels just didn't cut it (partly my bad because I didn't set up this elaborate folder structure) and I hated it.

I use falcon extension on Chrome. It indexes all the sites you visit so you can find the same site again with a search instead of a bookmark.

it lets me cite myself easily. "I read somewhere that X" is much less useful than "on such and such a date, person X wrote this oped in Y that asserted Z and i thought that was interesting..."

That sounds like a ton of administrative work. Imagine 100,000 bookmarks!

search is fast when you have many tags (and tag suggestions on new bookmarks) and full-text search of your cache.

Normally I can remember a phrase to search on, and that's fast.

Yeah, my brain tends to categorize things a little differently than Google does, so being able to tag something in Pinboard makes it much easier for me to find it later.

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