Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?

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histre

Thanks! I work on https://histre.com/ and lot of users say that this feature is very useful to them. Many of them say that they use separate windows for each thing they're trying to do, and before you know it you have 10 different windows with a lot of tabs each. You can save the states of all of them and restore them selectively, as you said. Bookmarks are too primitive imho. It is typically treated as just one link. It is useful to know the whole context around that. How did you get there? What else where you researching? Histre saves all that for you in a tree-style history. On the other end of the manual work spectrum is elaborate note-taking about everything ("second brain"), keeping that organized enough to be useful etc, which takes too much time for nebulous benefit. Histre takes care of all your knowledge management needs without making you do busywork.

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

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Pinboard

#Bookmarks #Bookmark Manager #Favorites 67 social mentions

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Group speed dial

I recommend the extension "Group Speed Dial" to manage this neatly. https://fastaddons.com/.

#Bookmark Manager #Bookmarks #Note Taking 3 social mentions

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Tablerone

5. Even if the person is willing to put in the effort to deal with #3 and #4, once saved links tend to become forgotten about because #1 and #2 and the vicious cycle of deprecation is complete That’s why most people use the bookmarks bar as a quick launcher pad for frequently used bookmarks. The Read Later services and native features are great for articles but not for general bookmarks that are not long-form reading. Equally, full-text carbon copy clippers such as Notion, Raindrops, Evernote, etc. Are not ideal for bookmarks for the same reason. Not to mention such solutions can only save pages one-by-one (instead of in batch), and can’t open multiple links at the same time — both needed to easily and quickly switch between different tasks/contexts. Without being able to easily save and organise large quantities of (useful) links, people resort to leaving them open until they are able to process them, contributing to a pervasive issue of tab-hoarding. Without being able to (auto)save sessions/tabs, people end up losing a lot of valuable references. The browser is the only (major) app in a modern stack that doesn’t save work and doesn’t enable you to reopen previous work. You can only undo recently closed tabs and recover the last state of the browser if it crashes. But you can’t save and close an online shopping session in the middle, only to reopen and pick up where you left off several days later. Why not? Shameless plug… this is precisely why we’ve developed Tablerone: https://tabler.one/.

#Bookmark Manager #Work Management #Bookmarks 14 social mentions