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Ask HN: What is your workflow for saving bookmarks?

29 pointsmr_november54 comments

Interested in hearing the various services/methods folks use to save url's. Especially with delicious likely shutting down (which I used), I'm interested in hearing about this. The only requirement is that the url's are available everywhere and not (just) stored locally.

Thanks.

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I'm almost at the point where I should probably go bookmark-free. Inevitably, bookmarks start becoming a micromanagement nightmare. The ability of google to find the site I'm thinking about it is almost on-par with my ability to find it hidden in my bookmarks.

I think this is absolutely the way bookmarking - and browser history - will go. Search is too fast and good now.

Unsure if you just have an exceptional memory, but I find this to be the opposite for me, to the point where none of the available services do enough for me.

My use-case might be different from yours tho. I do quite a bit of scientific research. Thus I require a vast array of mediums to be able to navigate and store data.

Delicious :( and low tech options like browser bookmarks, leaving tabs open or emailing links to myself.

I've been happy using Google's simple bookmarking service: http://google.com/bookmarks

another vote for Google bookmarking along with YAGBE - Yet Another Google Bookmarks Extension - Chrome extension.

Used this for a long time, and it was functional...ended up switching to Evernote for that (and importing Google Bookmarks to it), and love it--but I don't have a massive volume of bookmarks.

Anyone know of a good way to import bookmarks from delicious to Google Bookmarks? Searches only turn up several scripts that have rotted and to install Google Toolbar in FF. I just want a simple script or am hoping Google jumps on this and offers importing via any browser.

+1, this is really surprising to me that there is no way to import delicious bookmarks to google bookmarks.

The one 'supported' method doesn't even work and even if it did, it's a bit ridiculous (export delicious bookmarks, import to firefox, export from firefox, install google toolbar and import into google bookmarks). For one, you will lose all your tags.

With Favbot, you don't need a workflow : http://www.favbot.com/

Smart Automatic Bookmarks.

Favbot looks like it'll be my Delicious replacement. The fact that it's passive/ automatic is neat!

I'm not convinced about auto tagging services. The reason why tagging is so great is because the taxonomy is in your head not decided by a machine. Tags are literally bookmarks for your brain, if you're not making the tags - they're bookmarks for a machine (which are then hard to browse/cluster content by.)

In looking through my options for transitioning away from delicious, Favbot is the one that has we genuinely excited.

If it works in the way that it's described and works well, I daresay I'd consider switching even without delicious' impending doom. The analytics are especially interesting for a stats addict like myself.

I just hope the invite wait isn't too long.

Thanks. Invite wait won't be long.

Did you really just make me sign up only to tell me you're going to send me an invite sometime in the mysterious future? Ugh.

It is not vaporware. Most of it is done. You will get an invite soon. Limiting them to ensure quality.

Why does it say "Signup For Free Now" if I'm not signing up for the service? You should make it "Signup For An Invite" or something. (I just noticed it says next to it about invites, and on the right on the next page - but no one reads that.)

Depending on the type of bookmark, I use a combination of Read It Later and leander https://github.com/rudle/leander .

Shameless self-promotion: leander provides full text search on webpages from the command line. There is also an (experimental) sinatra web frontend/API.

I use chrome to sync bookmarks between machines.

I have a bookmarks bar where the bookmarks have no names. They are represented by their favicons. Then, I have 3 bookmark folders on my bookmarks bar. Currently they are "!" "11" and "12"

"!" is for bookmarks I keep long-term. "11" is for bookmarks created in november. "12" is for bookmarks created in december.

I'm pretty loose about bookmarking. If it's something I might want to bookmark, I just bookmark it to the current month's folder. Then, when the month is up (Jan 1), I will clean out the "11" folder, moving stuff I really want to keep to "!". Few things make it to "!". Then, I delete "11". Afterward, I will do a first wave of deletions on "12", keeping stuff I still find interesting. Then I'll create the "1" folder for January and start again.

I just use Instapaper bookmarklet and search. Don't have the time or patience for tagging.

I came to the same conclusion after using delicious for a few years... right before they came out with the intelligent auto-tagging stuff, which would mark bookmarks with perfectly relevant and useful tags automatically.

When it comes to bookmark retrieval, tags can be awesome. None of delicious' competitors that I've seen offer decent auto-tagging.

I use instapaper with Firefox addon , and it is working perfectly for both my desktop and mobile environment. I think people should migrate and distance thenselves from dissarrayed companies. Yahoo is that kind of company and Google can also User can turn that direction. Future are emerging companies like Instapaper or ReadItLater, which are present both mobile and on desktops. I’d recommend tool for import of http://bit.ly/delicious2instapaper

I wrote this so I would not have to rely on a third party for bookmarking and so I could have regex search:

https://github.com/mmb/murlsh

that's full-text regex, correct?

It's regex search the of the url itself and the page title. It doesn't match against the full document if that's what you mean. That's an interesting idea though.

ah, yes. that's what i meant. thnx for the clarification tho. i assumed it was full-text.

I just use Google Chrome and synchronize bookmarks, is all.

Me too except for my Android device. I have to 'Share' those links that I find on my phone by emailing myself. Serious pain point for me.

anyone know if the browser slows down in any way due to massive amounts of bookmarks?

1000? 10,000? 1 million?

1. Anything I plan to read later goes into Instapaper using the Instapaper bookmarklet.

2. Anything that I want to watch or return to later gets thrown into a "Read" or "Watch" bookmark folder I have which I clear out occasionally. For example, I have a few Ruby and Git guides that I refer to. Even if I have it bookmarked here I'll sometimes just Google for the link.

I store all of my bookmars in evernote. The chrome and firefox extensions are pretty solid, and make bookmarking very easy.

Worried back in the day about the precisely this event, I store my bookmarks in my own "service" - the UI being minimalist since I like it that way.

http://twagr.com/adduser.lua - but, a warning, it's just running on chewing gum and matches, so be gentle :-)

I've used delicious and xmarks.

I'm going to write my own bookmark plugin that syncs data to my own server the way I like it. I don't care about sharing or viewing other people's bookmarks. I certainly don't feel like paying to organize my bookmarks.

+100. Eventually will do the same as well. I figure this type of thing is part of a programmer's rite of passage.

I use http://www.minklinks.com/ to email links to friends and to myself. I'm eating my own dogfood, beta should hit before christmas, signups are still available.

no screenshots???

at the very least get some screenshots

Thanks, I'll do that.

ya. i recommend you minimize all points of friction as much as possible.

I use Evernote because it's easy to tag/organize/reorganize stuff and search is fast (desktop client). Plus it automatically syncs.

Bookmarking client side for me is > web based because of speed.

I use Opera which allows synchronizing bookmarks between computers.

http://pinboard.in

Although I understand their servers are taking a hammering at the moment

I also am a huge pinboard fan, but not for things that I use daily. I use XMarks for all my main things, and pinboard to store things that I rarely use, or if I am going to need a list- for instance, one of my physics professors wanted a list of web sources to save him some time (60 term papers). I used pinboard to store them all, and just had to give him a link at that point.

I use my To-Do List on my iGoogle homepage to store links (normally short term for later blogging/sharing). Every few weeks I'll go through them and clear them out.

I know it's probably not a popular option, but I use the bookmark syncing features of MobileMe. Always backed up, always in sync with my phone. Works great.

Oh and it works right from Safari. So just adding a normal bookmark is enough for it to sync.

Although I don't do it (maybe I'll start now), setting up a WordPress blog and using the Press This functionality is a pretty nice way to do it.

my flow:

- browse

- if it catches my eye, don't read it all and just send to instapaper

- while reading the page in instapaper, if it's worth bookmarking, i move it to a folder called "sendToPinboard"

- later on i go thru the "sendToPinboard" folder and bookmark and tag the pages individually in pinboard

yes, i know it needs streamlining. it's the best there is for me right now.

NEED: pdf support, other media support, various media archiving

I often email urls to myself.

I use specific gmail labels, so I can quickly go to those emails when I want to rewiew sites/ideas/things I've saved.

Chrome shares your links to all your computers via a feature in the browser.

Xmarks (now owned by LastPass) - cross-browser & cross-platform sync.

i just hit cmd-d and then return. in the future it will be available for address bar url completion.

the most frequently used sites i drag onto bookmarks bar. or just leave open in a tab.

was del.icio.us, with a script that pulled a backup down nightly.

Most likely I'll jump to pinboard.in

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