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I use bookmarks, but only in the sense that I use the bookmarks bar at the top of my browser. It's quite well curated and sorted so I can get to http://whatever/internal/web/portal/we're/worshipping/this/w... and https://whatever/damned/source/control/system/we're/using/th... at the click of a button. I don't bookmark junk stuff, and I clear off the bar regularly.

I do something similar. My bookmark bar looks like this: GSuite, Hackernews, The Morning Paper, Google Docs, Customer Folders (wiki, ticketing systems, relevant documentation or whatever), Personal Folder (NAS, etc), My Company Folder (internal Things), Things to Read (stuff I bookmarked but haven't actually read yet)

I use separate Chrome profiles for personal/work, so things like bookmarks, history, etc. don't get mixed together. And if for whatever reason I need to quickly remove just my personal stuff from the machine (or work stuff), I just have to wipe out that one profile. I'm surprised more browsers haven't adopted profiles yet.

Firefox has had profiles since at least 2008.

No.. Netscape had them since e v4

> The biggest problem is linkrot.

This is a problem that I was tired of dealing with, and hence I made https://github.com/crestify/crestify

It archives all bookmarks to archive.org and archive.today.

Very nice. I love the idea of integrating tab saving with bookmarks. OneTab is great, but it's easy to rack up a stupendous number of saved links, with really important ones lost in the accumulated junk.

I've bounced back and forth through a couple different approaches and tools. I have a ton of browser bookmarks in Chrome, many of which are old even after I did some cleanup work a while ago. Plus Instapaper. And, of course, a ton of saved tabs in OneTab. I've toyed with a couple of open-source tools like unmark and bookmarks.public (git-based, which sounds fun but is really just a couple extra steps removed from your browser), but never really found something that satisfied all of my needs.

https://github.com/plainmade/unmark https://github.com/skx/bookmarks.public

Crestify has a tool to import bookmarks from Chrome. Happy to hear you found the tab saving useful :). Let me know what could make Crestify the ultimate bookmarking tool for you, always open to feature requests on GitHub too!

Here's part of that script you're talking about:

    wget --recursive --level=5 --convert-links --page-requisites --wait=1 --random-wait --timestamping --no-parent $1

Combine with something to parse out the Chrome bookmarks (it's XML, IIRC), and it wouldn't take too long to nail down.

Chrome has the option to export all bookmarks to an html file, which I think can be given as an input to wget.

Now if I understand that correctly, won't it recursively download every web page and all it's links 5 levels deep? Because that could be quite enormous if there are just a few web pages with lots of links...

You will get some duplicates of Kevin Bacon's homepage but should be fine otherwise.

Also around 500 papers about number theory

It won't traverse across domains without an explicit argument, so it won't go too crazy. It also won't backtrack, so you won't end up with a complete copy of a blog if you've only bookmarked a single article. You can, of course, reduce the maxdepth to 1 pretty safely, if you don't think you'll need more than the specific bookmarked page.

I use that for programming language documentation - for example I'll hit the root page of Python's standard library documentation, and get everything I need locally.

If you pay the yearly pinboard fee, they'll archive everything you bookmark. I doubt if they do a deep copy, but it's something.

Instapaper offers a somewhat reduced pocket/pinboard premium experience for free since last November. Importing from pocket is very easy, I don't know about pinboard.

To avoid confusion: the premium level is the default level now...

From https://www.instapaper.com/premium: "Full-text search for all articles in your account"

Does pinboard archive it? Or do they make an API call to the Internet Archive and rely on that as the canonical version?

Pinboard archives it with wget: https://pinboard.in/faq/

A little known chrome extension that maintains the convenience of ctrl+D for saving bookmarks but adds immediate option to save to a folder via fuzzy search: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/better-bookmark/pn...

I've read through the webstore link and the github page, and I'm clearly missing something. I don't see an option to save to folder via fuzzy search. In fact, I don't see options at all. I see a list of my bookmark folders with a search at the top. If I actually click on any of my bookmark folders then it just closes the menu.

It doesn't let me navigate through my folders, and it never opens anything.

Edit: Redundant

Hello, Better Bookmark author here. This extension is not meant to open anything - it's only purpose is simplifying the process of adding new bookmarks. It basically displays a list of your bookmark folders (flattened), and lets you select which folder the bookmark should go to. If you click on a folder (or navigate using arrows and confirm with enter), it should close the menu, but the page should be bookmarked into this folder. If it doesn't do it, it's a bug :)

For linkrot pinboard Archive is one way to deal with.

Funnily although I pay for the service I am yet to actually use the archive!

Some anecdata on linkrot:

I started paying for the archive about 3 years after starting on pinboard.

This was about 10 years after starting my bookmarks on Delicious later imported to pinboard

13166 of your bookmarks have been archived, representing 64% of your collection.

This consumes 11.82 G of disk space.

7491 bookmarks have not been stored due to errors:

not found 964

bad request 4

unauthorized 5

forbidden 113

gone 17

rate limited 3

server error 6251

bad gateway 14

unavailable 78

Youtube-dl is the best. I use a bash script I wrote to pipe the output into ffmpeg which saves a high quality version of the source and a web optimized webm version.

What do you mean by web archive?

I recursively download sites using curl/wget on websites I want to preserve for a long time. Is web archive something different?

The Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org

It's been backing up the internet for over a decade

In addition to the Wayback Machine, there’s also:

https://archive.is/

Oh, the one on Shark Tank:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in4mAqHn_d4

What a treat. Too bad the longer one where you explain it got taken down. Anyway, although highly skeptical about the product, I'll at least give you props for turning down the final offer on grounds of who offered it. Most wouldn't. I'd never do a deal with him if it was about public benefit. Plus, seeing all of them loose their shit (esp Cuban's faces) was hilarious. Thanks for the entertainment. :)

Seems like you posted in the wrong thread.

> The biggest problem is linkrot.

I am not using such service, but isn't there a way (i.e. addon) to generate a copy of the page you bookmarked in order to remedy to that kind of issue ?

You can just save the pages in MHTML format (so each page is a single file) and keep them in "read later" folders. Or you can use one of the services that saves pages online....

Evernote clipping a page rather than just bookmarking it would work if it's static content.

I used Scapbook forever, but started recently using:

https://github.com/danny0838/firefox-scrapbook/wiki/Features

Holy smokes thank you for this link! I have been looking for a page archiver that would actually pull down ALL the files needed for a page and fix the relative links. All the others I have found simply ignore css includes like fonts or css images.

This one works great!

Finally!!

Another option is the Firefox "Print Edit" Addon. It allows you to remove any unwanted stuiff from the webpage and then save it as a single file (or print it). This will include all the CSS, Javascript and raster-images as base64 encoded data-urls. What you gain, in the end, is a single HTML (not MHT) page, that contains all the requisites and has crap removed (by you).

I use bookmarks a lot and I also like Chrome's handy way of managing bookmarks into folders. I just wish there were better keyboard shortcuts for creating bookmarks and automatically sending them to specific folders (e.g: Cmd + D + T will send it to 'Tech' folder).

Regarding linkrot, I think Pocket or Instapaper will solve that for your because they copy the underlying content from the page.

A bit of self-promotion: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/better-bookmark/pn... (I essentially had the same issue as you)

I was not aware it syncs, they should market this feature a little better.