Ask HN: What do you do for bookmarking?

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by steiger • 17 years ago

6 14 17 years ago

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Hello, fellas.

What do you guys prefer as a bookmarking tool? Do you use your browser bookmarking? I've been searching for better ways to remember and organize some sites, and I'm unsatisfied with local bookmarking.

I've been trying del.icio.us lately,

I wish to know from you if I you know something else I can try to make my experience better. What do YOU use?

DanielStraight• 17 years ago

Browser bookmarking with TagSifter in Firefox.

pasbesoin• 17 years ago

I still fondly remember Kaylon's PowerMarks. Tagged bookmarking, with auto-generation of a default set of tags and with fast search based on parsing input to a textbox. It may still be around, but I believe development stopped years ago.

Searching on "TagSifter" turned up

http://linux.com/archive/feature/145955

which gives me it and two other Firefox extensions to look at further when it's not so late in the evening.

Maybe the combination will get me close to what PowerMarks offered.

bbgm• 17 years ago

delicious, pretty much since the day it started. Probably would not be using it that heavily without the Firefox plugin. Ctrl-D is one of my more used actions.

chrisduesing• 17 years ago

I tried delicious for a while but it never really clicked for me. I now use Xmarks with Firefox and love it. It keeps my bookmarks the same on my several personal and work computers with different views for each, not to mention it syncs usernames and passwords.

jperras• 17 years ago

A combination of Instapaper for PDFs and the like, with Delicious for everything else.

nostrademons• 17 years ago

Browser autocompletion, with Google for the tricky ones. I visit the same 6 sites all the time anyway.

I figure that if I can't remember a useful keyword off the page, it must not've been a site worth remembering.

alanthonyc• 17 years ago

command-B

ams6110• 17 years ago

I use InstaPaper for stuff that I want to "read later" as is its intended purpose, or stuff that think I might want to return to occasionally. I like that I can get to it from anywhere, doesn't matter if I'm using my local machine.

For pages I use all the time... I have a local HTML file as my home page. It's just a simple set of links organized into a few broad categories. Faster than navigating the browser's bookmarks, for me, though slightly more work to update.

earl• 17 years ago

zotero for saving pages that I'll want to see again or want to be able to search locally

tokenadult• 17 years ago

I use standard issue Firefox bookmarking, including a large group of bookmarks imported from the last time I was using IE. I refer to those bookmarks often during online discussion--I just did this afternoon.

bowman• 17 years ago

I got through hundreds of site a day and never bookmark them. For me the internet is more an experience and I don't' like to read things twice. I can usually find what I want very quickly using google. So my suggestion is to just use google.

steiger• 17 years ago

The problem is when I _want_ to remember things for certain ocasions, like, showing something to a friend, or just revisit if there is a need to. Google sometimes is inefficient for that.

caffo• 17 years ago

pinboard.in + instapaper

gwern• 17 years ago

I use the Evernote plugin for saving random snippets of interesting text I might want one day; and for pages I'll want to visit in the next 6 months, I use 'Read It Later' http://readitlaterlist.com/

What's so nice about read it later is that it's quicker than regular bookmarks. I hit alt-w to add current page to the list, alt-w to remove it when I'm done, and that's it.

The regular bookmarks are heavyweight enough that I just wouldn't do that. (And this allows a nice division between regular bookmarks, links I'll be using for years, and RIL bookmarks, which I could get rid of anytime as soon as I finish with them. I could do that with folders, and that's how RIL works behind the scenes, but that's still more heavyweight.)

There are other features, like auto-saving the pages to disk for offline access, or a personal RSS feed, and integration with various Web 2.0 thingies - but that the core functionality is so quick and easy is the greatest part about it.

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