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Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

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What was the name of that app way back in the day for keeping and tracking bookmarks? I can't recall for the life of me...

I would like a better way to manage bookmarks, I currently use a NotesNook pages for "interest links" and a diff note for "professional/tech links"

But its still a pain - what do you use to manage, organize, group and recall/note your bookmarks?

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I save the few most important ones in Firefox's bookmarks bar (usually links to references of the APIs I use most often.) I have a ton of other bookmarks in the bookmarks menu but I don't open it anymore.

I started to share web pages to Telegram's Saved Messages which is synced to every device of mine. Then I search in that conversation. Not very organized but convenient enough. I also don't need an extra account (eg Firefox) or self host (Firefox has a sync server) and it works cross browsers and cross OSes.

I also keep about 100 tabs open on my phone's Firefox. They are a kind of bookmarks storage too :-)

I do the Tab Hoarding as well. I wish I was familiar with a convenient method to save groups of tabs together based on a topic.

For Firefox, you can select multiple tabs using CMD or SHIFT (if they're all adjacent one to another), then store them in one folder via the right-click menu (should read something like "Add tabs as bookmarks...")

I let like 150-200 tabs build up in my browser, bookmark them into the generic Firefox bookmarks folder (mobile and desktop) Then I realize there is too many bookmarks in those folders so I put them into folders based on the topic, then over time I delete them as the pages begin to 404 having never read any of them.

This is the way.

I'm using Static Marks, a tool I wrote. I consider the slightly increased effort of adding new bookmarks a feature, so there's a low noise ratio.

https://darekkay.com/static-marks/

> What was the name of that app way back in the day for keeping and tracking bookmarks?

del.icio.us

That was it.

There should be a bookmarks challenge app:

It selects a random bookmark from your saved book marks and send you a 5-minutes challenge. You have 3 minutes to skim as much as you can from the bookmark. Then you have 2 minutes to summarize what you gleaned from that three minutes of observing. Then you have that as the description - and the "reason you should actually spend time reading that bookmark"

THen a ranking system for how many you actually went back through, and maybe a diary whereby you can elaborate on the benefit you got from learning X from bookmark Y

I don't use bookmarks anymore. I have been using pocket (getpocket.com) for 6 years now and it helps a lot in managing, tagging links.

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