Hacker News Reader

It's indispensable to me. I've had my account since December 2010. There are over 9,000 bookmarks and 1,600 tags. It is one of two repositories that replaces a long-term memory that I sort of kind of don't have.

Just out of curiosity, what is your other repository?

The wiki component of Phabricator.

Of my 67k+ bookmarks, I would reckon that at least 85% are from automation (Twitter/Feedbin/Facebook/Pocket/Flickr/Instagram/Fediverse favourites, things I've tweeted/facebooked/flickr'd/instagram'd, etc.) There's no way that works with synced browsers and saved tab groups.

I do two things:

1) I take links from there and automatically share them elsewhere. I've got about 2,500 who read them in various places (Twitter/Facebook/Dreamwidth/Livejournal)

2) It's invaluable when I find something debunking the latest nonsense, and can easily find it again 5 years later when the same nonsense resurfaces.

As others have said. I don’t see any comparison to browser syncing. People say the same thing sometimes about password [managers]. For that too, I don’t see it.