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Ask HN: How to manage bookmarks?

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Hi HN,

I like to read about technology and different CS topics, so HN is a really useful resource. One of the problems I'ev found recently is that the amount of bookmarks I have is growing really fast. How do you manage them? I red a couple of "Ask HN" post about it, but I would like to know if now you use some kind of manager, what's your organization (folders? by topic or relevance?), etc....

To reduce this to a couple of questions:

- What's your criteria to bookmark a page?

- Do you use some kind of tool/extensions/anything to manage your bookmarks?

- How do you sync your bookmarks between devices/navigators?

Thanks HN!

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You mean the 22 years of bookmarks I've collected on at least 30 computers? I usually ignore them and just search for what I want to find, again.

1. Everything that I potentially want to read later, be it on the train or waiting for the bus

2. Pocket [0], it comes with an extension too

3. Pocket

- [0] https://getpocket.com

On my bookmarks toolbar I have a bookmark folder named 'y', under which there are a lot of dated folders, the latest of which is '17C'. Anything I bookmark in the next three months goes there, and in October I make '17D'.

If I use a bookmark often enough, it gets moved or copied out of the original folder, and put in a more relevant category folder. These are located under 'ref' or 'util' on the bookmarks toolbar.

I make folders with topics and some folders inside them, for example: Design > Tools, Programming > Reads, etc. I name them as short as possible, and no more than one folder inside. Also, I use Pocket. But Pocket doesn't work for me when it comes for saving bookmarks, because when I save too much, it's painful to see that I have too much to read.

I use to use delicious, when they were getting shutdown, I switched to google bookmarks. Its all there, but hard to get at. I occasionally download the entire xml and save it.

I had some ideas about making something to help me, but its more of a vitamin and not a painkiller.

Liberally tagging bookmarks with http://www.pinboard.in/ and going through the list once a year to prune

I usually email the link to myself in GMail with related tags. As you know, Gmail is great with search!

6 comments me thinks it means people have mostly moved on from bookmarks as an important tool

I email links to myself.

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