Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11675717

by ivanpashenko • 10 years ago

13 34 10 years ago

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I'm wondering, are there more people like me who is sending links to themself to open those links on other devices or to keep it?

sharemywin2• 10 years ago

I built a website to post links to.

ivanpashenko5• 10 years ago

Nice. How does it works?

sharemywin2• 10 years ago

kinda like my own personal HN(lol)...I post links with hash tags in the title. I added a login but you can post anonymously. I just haven't worked on it in ages.

meekins• 10 years ago

No. I use pinboard.in for this in addition to long-term bookmarking.

thecupisblue• 10 years ago

I have a private subreddit to keep links.

Mendenhall• 10 years ago

Yes I have tons. I use Onenote and find it great for such things.

partisan2• 10 years ago

Use to do this, but it was a headache. I am aware of and considering pinboard.in due to the recent YCF debacle.

ivanpashenko5• 10 years ago

Which YCF debacle you mean?

partisan2• 10 years ago

Sorry, not YCF, but Apply HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11647165

sundarurfriend• 10 years ago

I used to send myself links from one Gmail account to another via chat, but nowadays I mostly just open the link in desktop/mobile Firefox tab, and then later use the 'Show Synced Tabs' feature to open it in the other device.

informatimago• 10 years ago

Sure, all the time.

ivanpashenko5• 10 years ago

How do you send it, via email?

asteadman2• 10 years ago

For quick desktop->mobile I banged out this bookmarklet to gen a qr code. Caveats: this was a quick hack and probably doesn't work on everything. super long urls could be a problem.

  javascript:(function(){if(document.getElementById){var x=document.body;var o=document.createElement('script');if(typeof(o)!='object') o=document.standardCreateElement('script');o.setAttribute('src','https://qrbookmarklet.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/qr.js');o.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');x.appendChild(o);}})();

asteadman2• 10 years ago

OOPS. looks like i did not create that one. It is straight from https://code.google.com/archive/p/qrbookmarklet/. I apologize. honest mistake. I've written similar bookmarklets in the past and assumed this one was one of mine.

miguelrochefort• 10 years ago

I use Pocket and Pushbullet.

hitsurume• 10 years ago

tinyurl.com

Created my own shortlinks that I remember when I need to lookup things on other devices.

gatesphere• 10 years ago

Pushbullet works for me. I just wish it let me choose which instance of Chrome on which machine to push to, rather than all of them.

colebowl• 10 years ago

I used to but now use the Papaly Chrome extension. I like that I can create private categorized boards that automagically sync across all my devices.

https://papaly.com/

BorisMelnik• 10 years ago

I use Google Keep...been really liking it these days. It also has a great Android App / webapp / Chrome extension

sheraz2• 10 years ago

Gonna throw my own hat into the ring here and suggest Curabase [1]. This is my project which enjoyed some facetime here on HN earlier this week.

I also have a simple chrome extension which loads your links in a new tab [2]

[1] https://www.curabase.com

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/curabase-replace-c...

ivanpashenko5• 10 years ago

And how is it going? Do people use it?

sheraz2• 10 years ago

It is going well! (At least, I'm quite happy).

Between HN and Product Hunt on the same day we took in about 8,000 unique visitors, which resulted in over 350 signups.

Big drop-off since that early traffic spike, but is look like 40% of my traffic is still returning users. So that is interesting...

That traffic spike exposed a few big bugs which we closed this week, and now I'm figuring out next steps (marketing automation, more user acquisition, increasing sharing/virality).

Also, the more users I talk to the more I understand their use cases.

All in all, I'm loving it despite juggling this and my day job :-)

Nadya• 10 years ago

All the damned time. Now if only I could find a Pushbullet replacement that is more like Pushbullet v1.x without all the damned bloat.

I mostly use it to send things to my phone or to my desktop more easily than spamming my email. Two click sharing between my devices was a godsend.

Certain contexts make better reading. Reading long comment chains on my phone can be annoying. It's why I have a monitor in portrait mode: to make long-form articles easier to read.

I usually browse on my phone and send anything I'm actually interested in reading to my desktop. I'll send things from my desktop to my phone if I'm going to be travelling or want to show someone something later (eg: when we meet up for dinner I can show them on my phone)

tonyonodi• 10 years ago

I made Sayable[1] to solve this problem for myself. It did moderately well on prodcuthunt and /r/internetisbeautiful a couple of months ago (bombed on HN though!).

The main selling point is that you can send links between devices with no need to sign into anything. This was important to me since I'm not a fan of signing into personal accounts on work computers.

[1] https://sayable.co/

kalagan• 10 years ago

I use a facebook conversion with a second facebook account that I created for testing purposes.

degif• 10 years ago

You can send Facebook messages to yourself – no need for a second account.

WaltPurvis• 10 years ago

I email links to myself, and cc them to Evernote, several times per day. Usually this is because I'm on my phone and I want to read the link later on my desktop or just save it for reference.

It's kind of a hassle, and I probably only follow up on about one out of every ten links I send to myself, so I should probably just stop. (But I won't.)

cweiss• 10 years ago

If it's something to read - it goes to Pocket. If it's something to do, it goes to ToDoist. Sadly, both are overflowing with things to read and do that I'll likely never get around to.

gautamnarula• 10 years ago

The tools I use for this are pocket (if I want the whole link to read for later) or Evernote's web clipper (to extract the relevant part of the page and organize it along with other information on that topic.

ChrisGranger• 10 years ago

I used to use http://leash.co/ for this occasionally. I also use Google Keep. But since I check my email pretty regularly, sending something to my own Gmail is what I usually do.

0x54MUR41• 10 years ago

Yes, I do. I mostly bookmark a site using EverNote. There is an extension called EverNote webclipper that made easily to bookmark any sites.

jiten_bansal• 10 years ago

Pocket and google keep

girishso• 10 years ago

I tweet the links and they show up on http://www.tweetd.com/

(I am the developer of Tweetd)

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