Ask HN: What simple tool do you use to manage your bookmarks?

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by thojest • 7 years ago

22 29 7 years ago

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I am looking for an easy and highly accessible tool to manage my bookmarks. It would be very nice if it is browser and platform independent.

johncoltrane2• 7 years ago

I've been using pinboard.com since the open beta, almost ten years ago. One of the hidden (?) gems of the internet.

quambene7• 7 years ago

Do you mean pinboard.IN?

johncoltrane2• 7 years ago

Oops.

chrisked3• 7 years ago

www.pinboard.in is great. Could use some improvements, but it just works and is reliable. Highly recommended.

quambene7• 7 years ago

What do you think about getpocket.com and flipboard.com? What are the cons of pinboard.in over the other two?

andrei_says_• 7 years ago

Small operation and simple functionality. No pressure to grow as a business (and sell my data or close doors).

Also, the founder is an amazing writer.

chrisked3• 7 years ago

pinboard has less of user interface gimmicks. It’s mostly pure functionality and it just works.

return12• 7 years ago

I wanted the simplest way to save bookmarks, with a single click like i do in the browser, so i made this: https://pinplz.com

You can browse chronologically (blog-like), by tag, by domain, leave notes. It also saves the referrer of the bookmark, which is handy when i can't remember where i found the link.

quambene7• 7 years ago

How do you add bookmarks in pinplz without using the third-party toolbar button?

return12• 7 years ago

actually you can't right now.

Also note that it doesn't inject any third party javascript

amerkhalid• 7 years ago

WordPress. Not simple to setup or free but once it is setup, it is pretty simple to use.

I use bookmarklet on desktop and WordPress app on phone to post anything interesting to my bookmarks blog. It is pretty easy to search. Sometimes I use tags but usually not. It appears to be a messy collection of links, videos, quotes. But it works great for my purposes.

Blog: https://www.chaosplay.com

Ultramanoid• 7 years ago

https://tiddlywiki.com

darekkay• 7 years ago

I'm using Static Marks [1], my own tool to manage bookmarks. It's open source ans browser/OS independent.

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

marcinem• 7 years ago

Hey, check https://mailist.app :)

pravj• 7 years ago

Looks neat.

Can you explain more on the following point, in the non-personal information section of the policy?

"navigation paths used while visiting the website or platform"

guyuzkr• 7 years ago

I recently found out about Larder.io[1]. It nicely integrates with github stars, web clipper and has an API. I like it for it's simplicity as most of these tools are way too much for simple bookmarking.

[1] https://larder.io

frindo• 7 years ago

I posted about an extension I built to help me manage my bookmarks yesterday. It sends you an email of all the bookmarks you make for that day at the end of a day (similar to a news letter). You can find it at linkdrop.co

It sounds like you are more concerned with management than rediscovery, though, so it might not solve your usecase. In that case, I would definitely recommend getpocket.com for saving bookmarks across browsers/machines.

giorgos_tsif• 7 years ago

I’m building Tefter [1]. It’s a privacy-focused bookmarks manager with social aspects and feeds

Features

* Full-text search in the content of the bookmarked pages

* Import from pocket, pinboard or browser

* Ability to assign tags to bookmarks

* Automatic tagging

* Filter by tags, domain or user

* Organise in lists

* List subscription

* Feeds (like theverge [2] or hackernews [3] )

* You can follow users and feeds and build you customised newsfeed

* Archiving

* Dead-link discovery

* "read later" capabilities

* Readable-mode (preserves only the content of articles - removes ads)

* Powerful previews for youtube, soundcloud and mixcloud

* Browser extension to quickly bookmark pages and search

* Desktop and mobile apps

* Slack integration

* Public api

and the list will keep growing!

It’s currently in beta so feedback is welcome.

[1] https://tefter.io [2] https://tefter.io/~theverge [3] https://tefter.io/~hackernews

alok-g• 7 years ago

I maintain a static HTML file with all my bookmarks, which also includes embedded search boxes for Google, Wikipedia, etc. It forms a much better home page + new tab page than anything else. File is automatically sync'd between various devices using variois tools.

dhkxh• 7 years ago

Related question - how many bookmarks do you have and how do you use them? Because for my use I don't see a point of doing anything fancier that Ctrl-D to bookmark and keeping them in <5 folders in my browser.

quambene7• 7 years ago

I am archiving many links in my desktop browser (about 50 folders with various subfolders and each with a dozen links). The problem is that I would also like to have them available on mobile devices. Sure, most of the time you will not need them again. But with increasing regularity I am remembering that I was reading something interesting somewhere and want to have a look again, but can't find it in the web anymore. Then, you can figure out more easily where you read it when having appropriate and well-structured bookmarks.

raindropm3• 7 years ago

I recently spring clean my bookmark to bare essentials, because I found that I rarely use them anymore. If I want to read something, I save it to Pocket. RSS+Feedly for sites that I want to follow. For site that I want to keep for historical purpose, I save the url and screenshot in Google Keep, label it, archive and forget, without cluttering the bookmark.

Actually, I also use this method (keep-archive) in Google Keep for keeping other site too (the 'archive' button is so satisfying to use. It lifts the burden to manage bookmark out of your head, and I know the information is there, in my Google Keep, if I want to see it again (Note: I don't)

For sites I use frequently, I put it in new tab screen using chrome extension called Toby. If it start to accumulate, then I review it, discard it, or save it in specific label in Google keep.

quambene7• 7 years ago

Your archiving method seems like a waste of time if a) you don't need them, and b) you could just save a bookmark with one click in your browser.

I believe bookmarks (or something similar) have still its place in an increasingly digital world.

raindropm3• 7 years ago

Funnily the another me deep inside somehow agree with you lol. I even think about it while archiving 'Do I really need it in the future?'

However as a neat freak, archiving things, put it out of sight, gives me a bit peace of mind. With bookmark, I still see its accumulated through time and always feel the need to do something about it, even it not necessary.

Maybe one day I will realize and decide that all the thing I save is just nonsense and throw everything away. One day...:)

diehunde• 7 years ago

Take a look at Buku: https://github.com/jarun/Buku

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