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Ask HN: Which Bookmarking software do you use?

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Since HN, has the feature to submit via bookmarklet,let's hear how you all manage your bookmarks and history? https://news.ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html

https://del.icio.us/ is now deactivated for new users. https://youtu.be/VFWtH_3749o

What are some good bookmarking providers?

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Email to myself with a tag: [bookmark]

Example:

Subject: [bookmark] Some cool link that I found online Body: URL + some notes on what makes this worth bookmarking.

Sometimes I find a link to a product but I don't care about the product, I care about the landing page design so I add notes specifically about the design.

If I want to revisit previous links related to design I'll do a search in my inbox for the [bookmark] tag + any specific words I'm likely to have used concerning design.

It's not an instantaneous process but that means I don't bookmark everything I see. I'm picky.

I'm using a mix of browser bookmarks (everything that I'm using daily + a bookmark "inbox" folder) and StaticMarks [1], a tool I have written to manage all my long-term bookmarks. I store the bookmarks in yaml files within a git repository, which automatically generates the web app on every push. I've added the app as a browser search engine, so I just need to type "sm <query>" in my browser bar to search for a specific bookmark.

Other people prefer just putting thousands of links into one place and tagging them instead (like Pinboard).

[1] https://darekkay.com/static-marks/

I use Reminiscence [0], self-hosted bookmark and archive manager. I chose this software because it's open source, easy to install, and self-hosted. It works like other bookmarking software, but it has automatic tagging and summarization which is plus.

When I bookmark a link from the internet, I just submit the link. Reminiscence will crawl the link later (asynchronous communication). You can also use browser to bookmark. Currently, browser extension is available for Firefox (experimental not official).

This software has been discussed on HN [1] a few months ago.

[0]: https://github.com/kanishka-linux/reminiscence

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17942032

No mention that Pinboard archiving has been flakey for a while. As well as the service in general? Lots of bookmarked links with random status code issues. When the sites are fine.

I have 20K+ bookmarks and bookmark a decent amount so maybe the worts appear more for me.

This should be fixed as of early March. If it's not, and you still see issues, please drop me a line at support@pinboard.in.

I've found that I don't bookmark for the sake of bookmarking -- What I'm really trying to do is to build a knowledge bank on something; like a blog post formed by snippets of articles I've found over time.

Realizing this, I now have a bunch of documents related to topics of interest. Whenever I come across a site of interest, I'll add to the relevant document. I haven't quite figured out the right software to manage those documents. Right now, I use Asana a lot in my personal life so those documents are Asana tasks.

Weird or what?

you might want to check out https://pinplz.com/ , which has a blog-like view. Select some text, click on the bookmarklet and your bookmark is auto-added along with the snippet. It also saves the referrer (if available) which comes handy when trying to figure out where you found that page.

I mostly use the Mozilla Bookmarks menu. For anythink more complicated, and notes on programming i use my CatWiki wiki software, see https://github.com/cabalamat/catwiki

I use Pocket (getpocket.com). I can access my bookmarks from anywhere.

I store my bookmarks as a flat file, under revision control. That way I can sync to multiple (desktop) systems.

There's a bit of javascript magic to allow tag-views, filtering, or even showing 20 random bookmarks:

https://github.com/skx/bookmarks.public

I have used few different bookmarking tools including delicious, pocket etc and gave up on those after a while. I use Chrome as my default browser and I am comfortable using Chrome Bookmarks. My bookmarks are synced across all devices.

When bookmarking, I try to add #tags to the title field and it helps in finding the information quickly.

e.g #Careers #Profile #AskHN #ReadLater

I created https://www.homepagr.com

It is meant to replace the "new tab" page in the browser.

Nobody seems to feel it's worth $1/month, but myself and my wife use it and we open scores is tabs a day.

(If anyone has suggestions to make this more interesting it profitable then I'm all ears!)

What does Homepagr offer over the browser's native bookmarks and the ever-present bookmark bar? It's not obvious from the website, and there's not even a registration link. I figured out that the "login" input emails me a magic link, but most people wouldn't.

Also, it's not responsive, so works rather poorly on mobile, and doesn't look very appealing.

Despite my critique, I love the idea, but I think it needs more polish and functionality before people are willing to pay for it.

Seems to be like Papaly. They haven’t updated much or at all in a few years. So the market just seems hard to get in to.

I'm using chrome bookmarks but i've collected over the years/decades more than 10k links (well categorized, can't say if this is a lot or not) making them a bit hard to search/use. I wonder what is the average size of the collection of those who use one of these online services.

Big fan of https://pinboard.in

It’s not close, this is the right answer.

For all note taking, rss reading and bookmarking AND webarchiving:

DevonThink Pro. -> https://www.devontechnologies.com/apps/devonthink

https://pinplz.com

I just clip the webpage using Evernote's Web Clipper addon for Chrome. I can save this to a particular notebook and also tag it.

This way I get to have an offline copy of all my bookmarks, fully searchable!

I forgot to add --- the biggest benefit for me is I continue to have a copy of the webpage exactly as I see it, and the copy will remain with me even if the original page goes 404.

https://larder.io

The dev team are very open about their business, the roadmap, etc, and the personal touch on support is great.

Do you use Larder for everything?

I have a lifetime subscription to Pinboard. But ... it irritates me sometimes, and so I tried a Larder trial for 3 months.

In the end, I went back to Pinboard. Not that there was really anything really wrong with Larder, and I liked the GitHub stars integration, but ... it wasn't enough to switch.

I had only one issue: it didn't cope with tags that weren't URL-safe (eg. I had a bunch of stuff tagged with 'c++' in Pinboard, and it couldn't import them until I munged my import file to change it to 'cxx').

http://handlr.sapico.me ( self made) and has a personal mode ( that needs some performance improvements)

I create a page in Microsoft Onenote and add the name hyperlinked and export it as PDF or Single File Web Page. I just open this page in any browser.

I use a combination of google bookmarks and the HN favorite but I find its hard to find stuff later on.

I have a few ideas on how I would improve it.

https://www.are.na

Any arguments against storing your bookmarks in your browser of choice?

pinboard.in

well worth the $25/year.

A text file. Viewed in Emacs with goto-address-mode.

Http://www.curabase.com

Pinboard and it’s bookmarklet

xBrowserSync, I use it everywhere in chrome at home and office, and on my mobile

Firefox

exactly, have folders for each type of bookmark I'm interested in and categorize them

Pocket is pretty legit.

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