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I wish HN had a save post feature similar to Reddit. I'm not really a bookmark guy and this is exactly the kind of site I know would be a life saver some time i
by badloginagain 10y ago
I wish HN had a save post feature similar to Reddit. I'm not really a bookmark guy and this is exactly the kind of site I know would be a life saver some time in the future.
- kawera 10y agoIf you upvote a post you can access then later by clicking on "saved stories" in your profile page. There is a "saved comments" too.
- unimpressive 10y agoI wrote a script to export them: https://github.com/JD-P/HackerNewsToJSON https://github.com/JD-P/HackerNewsToJSON
- kawera 10y agoThanks, very handy! Just downloaded all my data.
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- OneOneOneOne 10y agoGood point. Does anyone have a good web based bookmark tool? I hop between a dozen machines on different networks so keeping bookmarks is kind of tedious.
- dublinben 10y agoThere's a really nice web-based bookmarking tool called Pinboard. You might have heard of it.
- kawera 10y agoI've been using https://pinboard.in https://pinboard.in for years and can't recommend it enough - it's brilliant.
- 0x6c6f6c 10y ago$11/year? Certainly not bad, but there are hostable solutions that would work on $15/year VPSs, and that's at consumer pricing and supports multiple users. On the other hand, this is just penny pinching and <$1/mo is phenomenal.
- themodelplumber 10y agoI built my own with an off-the -shelf CMS (Textpattern) and a bookmarklet. Works great, almost 3000 links in there, searchable, etc. I wrote a tutorial on it for txptips.com.
- NeutronBoy 10y agoThere's a story behind it - apparently there was a better response from consumers with annual pricing. People often didn't understand the concept of a one-off fee for a web service, and got confused between the once-off and the recurring options > Right now, users pay a one-time signup fee that grows by a fraction of a penny with each new signup. At the moment, this fee is $10.55. Pinboard also offers archiving accounts, which cost $25/year. Users who upgrade after joining Pinboard can deduct the signup fee from the first year of archiving. > Under the new scheme, basic Pinboard accounts will cost $11/year, while archiving will continue to cost $25/year. > My main reason for making the change is so that I don't have to keep explaining how pricing works. An astonishing number of people already believe that they're paying annually for Pinboard. Others accuse me of baiting and switching them when they upgrade to archiving and get a renewal notice. Note how much easier it is to describe the new policy than the old one. https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/11/new_pricing_policy/ https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/11/new_pricing_policy/
- kkoomi 10y agoSo he changed it from a one-time cost of ~$11, to a recurring annual cost of $11? That seems like a pretty big change.
- crottypeter 10y agoChrome? Not exactly what you're asking for but, seriously, if you sign-in to the browser you can access the same history and bookmarks on Android, Linux (desktop), Win, Mac OSX, etc. Firefox Sync seems to offer the same sort of thing.
- tkjef 10y agoexactly. I just use chrome. I've tried to use pocket (and still do, but not as my primary resource).
- web007 10y agoEvernote is my preference, since it lets you capture the content as well as the link. It's been helpful when blogs change structure or when I'm trying to remember the link based on content vs site/title.
- TimMeade 10y agoI use pocket. And HN has a pocket link... It's just awesome. https://getpocket.com https://getpocket.com
- AtticHacker 10y agoPocket is pretty good IMHO https://getpocket.com/ https://getpocket.com/ It's also built-in to Firefox, even though a lot of people hate that idea.
- satysin 10y agoWhat ever happened to Delicious?
- anonbanker 10y agobought by Yahoo, everyone forgot it exists.
- kirubakaran 10y agoThat was a long time ago. It has changed hands several times since then.
- stinkytaco 10y agoIt keeps getting sold, reinvented by another company, then sold again. I've had an account for nearly 10 years and it's probably been through 4 or 5 different owners. It reached the point for me where the bookmarklet or extension would keep breaking and since I was using browser syncing, I just never got around the fixing it.
- dhimes 10y agoI have been a happy user of pinboard for years (pinboard.in).
- downtide 10y agoCut and paste.
- jlgaddis 10y agoI use Instapaper to save articles that I want to read later.
- ddntktht 10y agoI use google.com/save and the corresponding extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-to-google/meoeeoaohbmgbocpdpnjklmfmjjagkkf https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-to-google/meo...
- _audakel 10y agokifi (https://www.kifi.com/ https://www.kifi.com/) by far the best i have ever used. its a little icon that you can position anywhere on the side of your screen. you just click it when you want to save the current page. the great thing about it is that it indexs with your google searches. So if you had saved a link about "Sphinx Admin Configuration" that you really liked, you could forget about it and then on a google search it would pull it to the top of the list and show it as a kifi saved site. Also cool is the social network effect, the people in your "network" you can see what searches they saved.
- Hansi 10y agoI've been using https://www.google.com/bookmarks/ https://www.google.com/bookmarks/ for years.
- dredmorbius 10y agoI'm using Pocket, and am in the process of switching from Readability (~2,000 articles archived there) as well as adding more articles. It's got some positives and negatives, though I'm fairly impressed so far (this is rare, so that alone is high praise). 1. Tags. Lots and lots of tags. It doesn't tell me how man I've got, though >1,000 wouldn't surprise me. I tend to organise stuff heavily. 2. Title, tag, and FULL TEXT search. This alone is a huge win over Readability, which lacked text-based search. The bad news: search appears to be OR rather than AND, meaning that lots of search terms increase rather than narrow search scope. If that's true, it's fucking idiotic. (Ello's search has a similar failure.) 3. Pretty good rendering. Overall the Pocket Android app is far better than the Readability app. 4. Responsive support. I've filed a mass of suggestions through the Pocket web form, plus a few through email. The latter have elicited responses, which is promising. No actual bugs fixed yet, though I'm hoping this will happen. 5. Good presentation defaults. Essentially preferable to ALL default Web design. White, sepia, and night-mode options, with font face and size controls. 6. Active development, support, communications. Readability appears to have entirely ceased public activity as of ~December 2012, with a (fairly annoying) set of feature changes. I suspect it's not long for this world. What's missing from Pocket: 1. Counts. Count everything, at least on request. 2. User stats. Overviews of article counts, add, archive, read, and delete rates would be helpful. 3. Multi-tag search. My tagging pays off most if I can filter to specific sets of topics. Generally, the tag system wants a lot of UI/UX love. Some longer comments on how tags might be improved: https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/crEFWvoG7WY https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/crEFWvoG...
- nandkeypull 10y agoDoes no one use Diigo? My favorite part about it is how easy it makes it to add tags when you bookmark a page. You can easily call up things you've saved many years ago with a simple tag search. It's kind of like a better Delicious, back when Delicious was actually good. But I imagine it's also like a free version of Pinboard. Plus it doesn't have that ridiculously large "modern" UI style that takes up so much space. Just a simple, no-frills interface with superb tagging and search.
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- digi_owl 10y agoHeh, bookmarks do not help. I am a compulsory bookmarker, but i suck at finding stuff i have bookmarked maybe a month ago...
- tkjef 10y agoThe trick is to purge the bookmark folders you haven't gone to in awhile and go through each one. File them into other Bookmark folders if needed, but go through them. You'll notice 1 or 2 (or more) gems that you need to get to, some more you forgot about, but are definitely important, and you'll delete/re-organize any that aren't that important any more (but you thought might be). I think bookmarks are gold for my scatter brained multi-device using personality. I have years of helpful bookmarks that stand the test of any computer outage, all easily accessible from any chrome browser i log into. When i die my kids will be able to access my bookmarks giving them an advantage of getting some finely curated knowledge articles spanning a lifetime from someone they trust.
- blakDiamond 10y agoPersonal Opinion: Use pocket. Saving and finding links are very easy with pocket app. Its available as an extension on all browsers. It also has a mobile app. To save, you just right click and select save to pocket. You can even tag your saved links. Give it a try, you might like it.