Ask HN: How do you keep track of the interesting things you find on HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20131906

by hackerm0nkey • 7 years ago

14 19 7 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

More like blog posts, articles, links, etc.. I've tried few things in the past from plain browser bookmarking to buku or even just a plain text markdowns. But nothing seems to be a perfect fit to the problem.

Interested to see what other people do and use.

david_frier• 7 years ago

I don't, very much. Mostly I read, and move on.

Once in a while, I find something longer which I really want to read later. I save those to InstaPaper.

hackerm0nkey3• 7 years ago

but shouldn't you? At this very moment I vaguely remembered that I came across an offline reader of web pages, but for the life of me I can't remember where I found that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

hackerm0nkey3• 7 years ago

found it, luckily I had parked a web page that linked to it https://getpolarized.io/

rajeshmr• 7 years ago

Pocket + tags

houssem_fat• 7 years ago

I think that https://notion.so worth a try.

digital_voodoo• 7 years ago

Pocket for me too. Wish I could use Notion for this (I use it for many other things), hope they release their Firefox extension soon.

aurizon• 7 years ago

I grab them with a control-D to a collection I call Alpha. When I have a little time, I right click Alpha and 'open all', which opens them all in tabs. I then view them one at a time, going incognito for some paywalls, and failing to see some paywalls. Those I want, remain in Alpha, others I delete from Alpha. If a site is paywalled and I am able to find a way to defeat the paywall and like it, I keep it. Currently Alpha is at 43, when I get to 50 that I want to keep, I will start a 'beta'. When I have idle time I browse and hop skip and jump until I fall into the arms of Lethe.....

petee• 7 years ago

The 'favorite' button that is on every post? I assumed thats why its there

kasey_junk• 7 years ago

Pinboard.in

buboard• 7 years ago

I use a small bookmarking site i made for saving links quickly. It filters by domain / date / tags, plus i use it to keep notes on links. It also tracks the referer which is handy to remember where i found the link (if available; google search and HN do not allow that though). It also saves an archived copy of the page for future reference. The site is https://pinplz.com/

kirubakaran4• 7 years ago

I use https://histre.com/ to take notes and tag.

I've been working on Histre and it aims to be your internet copilot, helping you with painless, seamless knowledge management and other things.

One example use-case is, vacation planning. My gf used to use a spreadsheet to research and shortlist AirBnBs. It was painful. We're off to Portugal in a few days and she used Histre to plan the whole thing. She took notes and tagged AirBnB listings right from their website and filtered it on Histre. She's ecstatic ;-)

I'd love to hear from you (k@histre.com) and I'll build any features that'll help you.

welder• 7 years ago

I use it, thanks for building it! I like being able to take notes and tag pages without having to find a folder in the tree of Chrome bookmarks.

kirubakaran4• 7 years ago

Cool, thanks! Please let me know any feature requests that you have.

valeriemettler• 7 years ago

I also use histre to help me with any research I do online, especially when I start a new project at work. It's nice to be able to quickly collect things and have them already organized for me. Plus it keeps me from having to keep a million tabs open, which is a relief! ;) Thanks for making it!

I do have a feature request for you: I'd like to be able to share my project research links and notes with just my team. That would make histre super useful to me.

kirubakaran4• 7 years ago

Awesome, I'm happy to hear it! Yes, I'm working on "teams" feature already, and I'll have that ready soon.

tomjen32• 7 years ago

I am confused by what exactly it is that you are trying to do. It kinda sounds like I should upload my internet history to you and then I can tag it? Or do I search through your site?

kirubakaran4• 7 years ago

Thanks for checking it out and giving me feedback. I definitely need to improve how I describe it.

Right now it does:

1. Improved history (tree style, time spent, dedupe)

2. Improved bookmarks + notes + tags; that is, you can go to any website and take notes and type #tags in your notes. When you go to https://histre.com/notes/ you'll see all your notes. You can filter by tags, search etc.

3. Low Friction Publishing : when you take notes as described above, you can add #pub and the note will be published and be available on your public page. Here are some notes other members have published: https://histre.com/pub/all/

You'll soon be able to share with just your team, and see only relevant notes/bookmarks from others in the topics that interest you.

I'll also send this to you by email so that you get notified. Please let me know what you think. Thanks!

tomjen32• 7 years ago

If it is a blog that I care about, then I add its rss feed. If it is something else, then I either add it to pocket to read later or store a bookmark in my browser, because I like to pretend it is 1993.

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