Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Pinboard

Core. I eventually realized that the guy who originally started del.icio.us was running a service called Pinboard. I checked it out, read his blog, saw how dedicated he was to providing a good service and being attentive to his customers and signed up. https://pinboard.in/ is a fantastic bookmarking service which ticks all the right boxes and doesn't try to be something it shouldn't. If you're tactical in your tagging you should be able to find your valuable links easily.

#Bookmarks #Bookmark Manager #Favorites 67 social mentions

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historious

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.

#Bookmarks #Bookmark Manager #Note Taking 10 social mentions

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Raindrop.io

I dropped pinboard.in recently. The interface hasn't had improvements in years, the extensions are all third party, and the API if you wanted to build your own is pretty limiting. The mobile interface is pretty poor too. I'm now moved over the [Raindrop.io](https://raindrop.io/), which is another solo-developer outfit, but has had a lot of work put into it. It does all the same stuff Pinboard does (including page archiving but beside the social and public directory things... Which nobody uses), but has a bunch of additional features. It has a much more complete API, a well maintained extension, and mobile apps! Definitely worth giving a go.

#Bookmarks #Bookmark Manager #Bookmark Synchronization 178 social mentions

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histre

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.

#Knowledge Management #Research Tools #Bookmark Manager 16 social mentions

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Dynalist

Kinda/sorta. I use https://dynalist.io as my outliner. And it has browser clipper plugins that in their simplest use snapshot the title/url of the page you're on. So I often clip urls into there. But it as a tool is much broader. I use it as my GTD inbox, and for task management, and other notes. The fact that I can simply search for pages that I've clipped (including adding #tags to them, or grouping them) is a lovely subset of what I use it for.

#Note Taking #Project Management #Task Management 24 social mentions

6

BrainTool

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.

#Bookmarks #Chrome Extensions #Information Browser 90 social mentions

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YaCy

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/.

#Search Engine #Internet Search #Web Search 71 social mentions

8

forlater.email

Hah, you might like my project https://forlater.email. :).

#Email #Productivity #Note Taking 5 social mentions

9

daily.dev

I've been enjoying https://daily.dev. The way they integrate into the browser is quite nice too. Well built all around.

#Firefox Extensions #Chrome Extensions #Productivity 61 social mentions

10

Shiori Bookmark Manager

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/ebbf0022bc44bf052dcf09de0ab48bb16998a42b/docs/how-to.md#using-http-shortcuts-app-on-android.

#Bookmarks #Bookmark Manager #Documentation 24 social mentions

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Keep It

I use Keep It [1] on macOS/iOS and save pages as PDFs. [1] http://reinventedsoftware.com/keepit/.

#Note Taking #Todos #Personal Productivity 10 social mentions

12

My Mind

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.

#Productivity #Project Management #Requirements Management 25 social mentions

13

SingleFile

For a couple years I've been working on a personal Flask App that will collect and organize your SingleFile [1] downloads. Been working great for me so far, and definitely help me improve my coding skills. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/singlefile/mpiodijhokgodhhofbcjdecpffjipkle.

#Utilities #Download Manager #Web Copier 13 social mentions

14

Tagpacker

I have been using this https://tagpacker.com.

#Bookmark Manager #Bookmarks #Note Taking 2 social mentions

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Plain Org

Https://plainorg.com (iOS/share sheet from Safari) - I authored this one. https://braintool.org (Chrome) Both powered by a plain text stores.

#Task Management #Note Taking #Project Management 37 social mentions

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Guardo.io

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.

#Bookmarks #Bookmark Manager #Productivity 1 social mentions

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Taskade for Chrome & Firefox

#Productivity #Chrome Extensions #Note Taking

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Bookee

Will use this as an opportunity to share something I built called Bookee: https://onassar.github.io/extensions/bookee/ It's a Chrome Extension that let's me quickly search through my Chrome Bookmarks. It's got plenty of hotkeys, and I use it 20+ times a day. Screenshot:.

#Chrome Extrensions #Productivity #Tech 2 social mentions

19

Hacker News Search

When people talk of searching Hacker News they seem to use algolia: https://hn.algolia.com/. Does this help you?

#Search Engine #Web Search #Internet Search 1913 social mentions

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Anybox.cc

I'm using https://anybox.cc to hold my work life together. It's a native Mac/iOS app (not web based like raindrop) and very keyboard shortcuts heavy.

#Bookmarks #Bookmark Manager #Mac 6 social mentions