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Ask HN: Where do you save interesting links?

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I've tried Pocket, which kinda sucked. I've tried maintaining a .txt on my laptop, but that makes things hard to search, format, and transfer onto my phone. I've even tried making my own app, but there are a bunch of features that I want which I don't want to spent time coding up.

What do you guys use to save links?

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Raindrop.io covers everything for me in the free tier. Apps on every platform, extensions, sync. Backups can be made in the free version but they are done manually.

[0] https://raindrop.io/

I was just about to comment this! I've been using it for about a year at this point after being unsatisfied with Pocket's lack of features, and I absolutely love it.

Love this app. Thanks for letting me know.

https://pinboard.in/

Simple, enough features to sort and search and works on multiple devices.

Prototype of my bookmarking app: https://instant.leftium.com/

You can only search for bookmarks right now. I loaded my bookmarks by converting a Netscape-format bookmarks.html file to JSON.

So you could just use your browser's bookmarking feature and occasionally import them. (I exported my bookmarks from https://www.bkmks.com/)

Source code:

- https://glitch.com/edit/#!/johns-first-react-project

- https://glitch.com/edit/#!/jkm

How interesting? I leave open tabs for reading lists. They have to maintain their interest level while unread or they get closed.

For more general topics I'll post on HN or subreddit so it's in my profile.

I also save to Firefox bookmarks, but I rarely ever go look at those lists and don't put much effort into saving them. I'll copy my home directory and if I get it in an accessible manner great. Can't recall the last time I searched an old Firefox profile directory for anything.

I'm using a jekyll blog running on github action and github pages here is the writeup about that system https://umtksa.github.io/my-public-bookmarks-service

And here is the actual links page https://umtksa.github.io/links/

In a big text file, with raw URLs. I don't care that I can't view it on mobile. Most of the links come from my mobile device anyway via iCloud sync. I have a browser addon that copies all open tabs and coverts them to raw URLs, so I just open up my bookmarks.html, trim all the cruft from it, and then merge to the main .TXT file that has my 'master list' of URLs.

I'm going through the same. I have over 3000 bookmarks in my mobile Chrome. I take backup in my email through sync. The same for Reddit, Twitter bookmarks. I'm thinking of using an external tool or notion/word to keep every link in one place. I'm pretty sure I won't visit them again, but it's just for a backup of interesting links.

I use firefox bookmarks. I don't organize past one level and most of my bookmarks just end up in the catch-all "read" folder to be honest.

To open bookmarks, I type a "*" in the location bar and then a term I am searching for.

For bookmarks, that I have a tough time finding, I will edit the bookmark and add a tag. This lets me use the tag with the "*" location search.

https://braintool.org - Bookmarker extension with hierarchy, notes and text search. Writes your data to a text file (in org-mode format) that can be accessed on your phone via Google Drive.

I just share the link via email to myself, with title and a few notes or pasted quote so I can search for it later. I seldom look at them again, but I do it to quell any anxiety that I'll never find $interesting_thing again if I close the tab.

I use basecamp personal. Really easy to accumulate links in to-do lists. I can add notes to a link and check them off when I don't need them but still want them around to keep a record. It has worked for me for several years.

I’m trying heyday, it works well so far but I’m only a week into it. Otherwise I use my twitter feed, I don’t post anything but links so on occasion I query my own timeline to find something I found interesting.

I don't. Digital collections are stressful and most of the time I don't read the stuff later anyway. If it's that good I will come across the article again at some point.

Standard browser Bookmarks, but arranged as a tree structure with folders and subfolders wherever necessary. I have hundreds if not thousands of bookmarked websites.

[backups] ... On a related note, it would be nice if online note/bookmarking tools had an option to send you a monthly email that aggregates your recent bookmarks.

In the mess that is the Bookmarks manager for Firefox or Edge or Chrome. We really need a site like thereifixedit for software.

Pocket. Probably not the best place, but it’s nice to have stuff downloaded offline when I’m traveling.

OPs first words were: I've tried Pocket which kinda sucked"

WordPress blog. I just tag links "read later" and make post private.

I've got a Notion page that has a table of useful links that I've found.

I use a Google Doc. I’ve never really wanted anything more.

Simplenote. it's not made for links though, just notes

lately i have been using Telegram "saved messages"

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