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How are others storing their bookmarks now? I've moved to Google Sheets for some cases, but it's much less powerful

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Raindrop is fantastic: https://raindrop.io/.

$28/year, also "AI Suggestions" is the first item on the "Pro" features list.

I'm sure it's a fine CRUD app but I don't really hold hope for it being a long term success.

This app added this AI feature recently. It is very successful for years before current LLM hype.

Raindrop is not a new app. I've been using it for about five years now.

It's a solo developer project by one guy in Kazakhstan, which makes it all the more impressive. It has a great browser extension, a great desktop app (Electron-based, but very well done), and a great iOS mobile app (no idea about Android). It's also been under active development since I started using it.

One of its best features is its app, which allows you to browse your bookmarks in a split pane.

I've only checked out the AI feature now, since you mentioned it. I'm not a fan of pointless AI features that get added to apps, but this one is actually useful! It suggests places your bookmarks should be moved to. I had a bunch of stuff in an "Unsorted" folder, and it actually made really accurate suggestions for where they should be moved, and it also suggested moving some stuff I had miscategorized or where I had a more specific folder it could be in.

Honestly that's a rare good use case for AI: low stakes, passes through a human before anything actually happens, and is about ambiguos categorization based on human language.

Agreed!

I can vouch for that. I have been using it for many years.

I migrated from pinboard to raindrop this year, can confirm.

I was on Pinboard's lifetime plan. No subscription, just a single payment of $15 back who knows when. A few years ago I was asked if I wouldn't rather pay $5 per month instead, and declined. I wonder if all the outages and throttling were a result of underestimating the running costs.

Regardless, service quality had declined to such levels that I switched to raindrop this year. Ironically, raindrop is free to use, and may run into the same issue eventually.

I got the same e-mail and also declined to move off the lifetime plan. I would have considered it to support the site but I could see where the owner's attention was going to be focused. Politics is a hell of a drug.

I also migrated from Pinboard to Raindrop and can confirm it's a great service, is updated regularly and while I've generally not received quick responses to questions or feedback, I do eventually. It's also worth mentioning that at least for iOS and MacOS, it has nice integrations that work well, which I could never say about Pinboard.

I self host with linkding[1].

[1]: https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding

Firefox native bookmarks

My password manager doubles as my bookmark manager. I mean, it's already doing the one job on it's way to doing the other, so..

What do you do with, say, an article linked from HN that you want to refer to in future?

Copy link, create new site in pw manager, give it a memorable name, potentially put it into a folder or a collection.

Tons easier than farting around with a google spreadsheet 8I

I got Anybox[0] with the lifetime subscription (40$) and have been happy with it (Only for Apple devices unfortunately)

I can choose to automatically download a web archive when I bookmark. Also has a trial version. Can be a bit overwhelming to set things up. But works seamlessly once done.

[0] https://anybox.app/

Zotero with the browser plugin

I’d never considered using a reference manager for bookmarks but looking at the feature set, it’s kinda perfect

Homebuilt tool. Started when the Pocket BS in FF happened, just kept playing with it. It's a PWA/Share Target on mobile and an extension in my browser.

Downside is I have to be online to use it.

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