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What's the use case for an advanced bookmark manager? Managing (online) scientific references our such? I find that even with a couple of folders of bookmarks

by dancek 10y ago

What's the use case for an advanced bookmark manager? Managing (online) scientific references our such? I find that even with a couple of folders of bookmarks in my browser, reading something later just doesn't happen in practice. And for reference sites that I might need later, the browser bookmark system is more than enough. Is it just me?

metamaker 10y ago
Nope, I feel exactly your way. That is why I started keeping links in Wunderlist in separate todos list and using Speed Dial to keep my oftenly used links.
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apjana 10y ago
Maintainer of `Buku` here. I agree. In the latest release we have pushed an Easter Egg to open random (and probably forgotten) bookmarks which you can revisit once in a while.
pkaye 10y ago
I feel the same way as you in that I rarely read something that I bookmark. However either I may want to read the contents later or I do want to read it but am too busy. The end result is a pile of bookmarks that I wish to keep safely and if there was a better way to automatically organize and search easily.
setr 10y ago
I have ~300 things between 40 or so folders in my chrome bookmarks atm, and about ~150 tabs that I need to get around to bookmarking. Main issue using the normal manager is that it's not actually that easy to parse my folders, and it's troublesome to reorganize Main reason I keep so many tabs is to send them to people when it comes up in conversation That'd be why I'd consider buku anyways Also in the back of my head is auto-pushing bookmarks to wayback and replacing the bookmark link with the wayback copy ala gwern.net; presumably doing that with sqlite would be simpler than some kind of chrome plugin
jsilence 10y ago
I have the same experience. Bookmarks only are of little value. I think this situation would be better for me if the bookmark manager would download the page, if possible extract the main content part sans the navigation and teaser boxes and built a searchable full text index from that. Optionally a snapshot of the page could be useful. For that I am misusing Zotero and the Zotero FF plugin. Apart from managing papers I have to read I also keep track of informative web pages. With sing Buku, emacs integration instantly came to my mind. Could be useful with the W3 browser mode or other modes that display URLs.
komali2 10y ago
I usually have folders of stuff that I want to blog about later (consolidate a bunch of tutorials or articles on some aspect of Backbone or whatever into a single post) or mass-send people who are going down paths I've once gone down, for example learning Chinese or learning Javascript.

by dancek 10y ago

metamaker 10y ago

Nope, I feel exactly your way. That is why I started keeping links in Wunderlist in separate todos list and using Speed Dial to keep my oftenly used links.

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apjana 10y ago

Maintainer of `Buku` here. I agree. In the latest release we have pushed an Easter Egg to open random (and probably forgotten) bookmarks which you can revisit once in a while.

pkaye 10y ago

I feel the same way as you in that I rarely read something that I bookmark. However either I may want to read the contents later or I do want to read it but am too busy. The end result is a pile of bookmarks that I wish to keep safely and if there was a better way to automatically organize and search easily.

setr 10y ago

I have ~300 things between 40 or so folders in my chrome bookmarks atm, and about ~150 tabs that I need to get around to bookmarking. Main issue using the normal manager is that it's not actually that easy to parse my folders, and it's troublesome to reorganize Main reason I keep so many tabs is to send them to people when it comes up in conversation That'd be why I'd consider buku anyways Also in the back of my head is auto-pushing bookmarks to wayback and replacing the bookmark link with the wayback copy ala gwern.net; presumably doing that with sqlite would be simpler than some kind of chrome plugin

jsilence 10y ago

I have the same experience. Bookmarks only are of little value. I think this situation would be better for me if the bookmark manager would download the page, if possible extract the main content part sans the navigation and teaser boxes and built a searchable full text index from that. Optionally a snapshot of the page could be useful. For that I am misusing Zotero and the Zotero FF plugin. Apart from managing papers I have to read I also keep track of informative web pages. With sing Buku, emacs integration instantly came to my mind. Could be useful with the W3 browser mode or other modes that display URLs.

komali2 10y ago

I usually have folders of stuff that I want to blog about later (consolidate a bunch of tutorials or articles on some aspect of Backbone or whatever into a single post) or mass-send people who are going down paths I've once gone down, for example learning Chinese or learning Javascript.