Ask HN: How do you use your HN favorites?

6 points·tmaly··6 comments

I save a lot of good posts to HN favorites. But I usually never get around to doing anything with them.

How do you use your HN favorites?

I wrote some tools to search your HN favorites and export them to CSV or HTML in both JavaScript and Python.

Check out https://gabrielsroka.github.io/getHNFavorites.js or to view the source code, see JS: https://github.com/gabrielsroka/gabrielsroka.github.io/blob/... or Python: https://github.com/gabrielsroka/gabrielsroka.github.io/blob/...

Previous discussion, other tools and more info:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22788236

My HN Favorites are very limited. Only those comments that I feel to be timeless or the kind of ones that you specifically don't look for, but has some thought provoking stuff. I add a comment to favorites maybe once in 3 or 4 months. When I favorite a comment, I end up on the page of all my favorites. I take a few mins to go through them.

Other threads/pages of value, that are based on specific topics are filed away in my Zim Notebook, to be referenced when there is a need.

I guess I also use my favorites as a sort of bookmark system. This tends to crowd what is in there.

I don’t use HN favorites. I use Safari bookmarks because they are synced across devices automatically, easily searchable, and encrypted. If I didn’t use Apple products I’d probably use a paid bookmarking service like pinboard.

I don’t understand why people use website-specific bookmarks like HN or Twitter favorites.

Write-only bookmarks and reading list.

The stuff that I want to keep a list of, in order to avoid losing it.

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