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I have been sticking with Delicious in the hope that Yahoo will sell it off to a good team, who can revive Delicious. Strange that no other company takes bookma

I have been sticking with Delicious in the hope that Yahoo will sell it off to a good team, who can revive Delicious. Strange that no other company takes bookmarks seriously. Google Bookmarks is a joke - it doesn't even sync with Chrome.

polynomial 16y ago
>Strange that no other company takes bookmarks seriously. Cannot uparrow enough. Anyone care to shed some light on this?
- pclark 16y ago
  Google Search killed bookmarks, it's faster and easier to simply Google a vague string you remember from the page, rather than type a tag into a different service, or trawl through six hundred sites you have incoherently organised.
  - gruseom 16y ago
    True, but I use Delicious for grouping things that I don't remember, so it saves me not a one-off search but an entire search session on a topic. Also, the graph aspect of seeing who else bookmarked a page, then what else they've bookmarked and tagged, is still a killer feature (if it weren't so slow) after all these years. Given how rarely I'm the first to add any page, for me Delicious is basically a database of everything interesting on the web. That just has to be valuable. If only some deep thinkers and hard workers would do something with it.
  - Alex3917 16y ago
    That was true five years ago maybe, but these days Google is pretty much a cesspool. It often takes me over an hour just to find something vaguely related to what I'm looking for, even if I remember three or four different strings from the page. Especially for things like academic journal articles, if you don't bookmark it then it's pretty much gone forever.
    - StavrosK 16y ago
      You would like http://historio.us/ http://historio.us/
    - didip 16y ago
      Care to try http://mybucket.co http://mybucket.co? When you found that precious article, it's a bookmarklet click away. And tagging is not a chore at all, simple use #hashtag in the description.
      - sid0 16y ago
        Why should I use it over Firefox's native bookmarks?
        didip 16y ago
        I asked that question for myself, and the answer (for me) is because of the hassle of switching browsers. I switch browsers somewhat often, and I'd like to have all my bookmarks in the same place (not to mention the terror of migrating all bookmarks when getting new laptop). That's the main reason. And of course there are little reasons such as: * native bookmark doesn't give me preview or little snippet of what the link is about. * I want to replay Freddie Mercury songs on YouTube in loop. * It's always a pain to download photos of myself, tagged by family on Facebook.
        sid0 16y ago
        Firefox sync means I don't have to worry about losing my bookmarks, and I doubt I'm going to use anything but Firefox for a long while. Your other points are interesting, but I don't really see how they beat the awesomebar integration Firefox has.
        u48998 16y ago
        Firefox 4 + Sync (Slurp to get the bookmarks out of delicious). Additionally, use Dropbox or SugarSync to backup bookmarks folder. With 5 copies of backed up bookmarks, you'll be covered from all sides.
  - jokermatt999 16y ago
    If you keep history, I've found Firefox's AwesomeBar is incredibly useful for finding stuff if you can remember a fragment of the page title or url.
    - code_duck 16y ago
      Also, the Google Chrome bar is notably less useful for this. Chrome supplies completions assuming what you have typed is in the beginning of the URL, while Firefox searches within the URL, title, and so on.
  - code_duck 16y ago
    My #1 use for bookmarks is to save particular page while researching a topic. I might do 20 searches with variations of terms, and find a useful page perhaps through a link on a page that came up in the search. Then, a few days later when I need that page again, Google search is not going to help I'd have to recreate the exact query that led to me finding the site in question. That is why bookmarks are still useful.
  - teyc 16y ago
    People value things they already seen and know more than things they haven't. This is why bookmarking is always necessary. It is to aid recall.
- lkozma 16y ago
  Maybe because bookmarking is a bit like TODO apps: not technically difficult to do but everyone hates using someone else's system. Of course, Delicious was the exception :)
Groxx 16y ago
I've been using a combination of Pinboard and XMarks. Overall extremely happy so far - Pinboard manages about a thousand and has tags and one-click "read later" and offline searching and is my primary backup, and XMarks keeps my dozen browsers and 500 bookmarks in sync transparently (stable + beta + dev + sometimes nightly versions of a number of browsers).
dabent 16y ago
I joined Pinboard.in a while back and love it.
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davidwparker 16y ago
I use Chrome bookmarks and they sync to Google Docs... I'm not quite sure why they don't sync to Google Bookmarks. Nonetheless, I'm pleased with it as I'm on multiple systems and I still have my bookmarks built into my browser. Added bonus that when I start to "search" in the url/search bar, it brings up relevant bookmarks.
Tycho 16y ago
I swear by historio.us And they might just get my subscription once I use up my last 70 or so free bookmark slots. The two best features are that you get a good search function, and it caches the page for you in case the original one falls off the net.

polynomial 16y ago

>Strange that no other company takes bookmarks seriously. Cannot uparrow enough. Anyone care to shed some light on this?

pclark 16y ago
Google Search killed bookmarks, it's faster and easier to simply Google a vague string you remember from the page, rather than type a tag into a different service, or trawl through six hundred sites you have incoherently organised.
- gruseom 16y ago
  True, but I use Delicious for grouping things that I don't remember, so it saves me not a one-off search but an entire search session on a topic. Also, the graph aspect of seeing who else bookmarked a page, then what else they've bookmarked and tagged, is still a killer feature (if it weren't so slow) after all these years. Given how rarely I'm the first to add any page, for me Delicious is basically a database of everything interesting on the web. That just has to be valuable. If only some deep thinkers and hard workers would do something with it.
- Alex3917 16y ago
  That was true five years ago maybe, but these days Google is pretty much a cesspool. It often takes me over an hour just to find something vaguely related to what I'm looking for, even if I remember three or four different strings from the page. Especially for things like academic journal articles, if you don't bookmark it then it's pretty much gone forever.
  - StavrosK 16y ago
    You would like http://historio.us/ http://historio.us/
  - didip 16y ago
    Care to try http://mybucket.co http://mybucket.co? When you found that precious article, it's a bookmarklet click away. And tagging is not a chore at all, simple use #hashtag in the description.
    - sid0 16y ago
      Why should I use it over Firefox's native bookmarks?
      - didip 16y ago
        I asked that question for myself, and the answer (for me) is because of the hassle of switching browsers. I switch browsers somewhat often, and I'd like to have all my bookmarks in the same place (not to mention the terror of migrating all bookmarks when getting new laptop). That's the main reason. And of course there are little reasons such as: * native bookmark doesn't give me preview or little snippet of what the link is about. * I want to replay Freddie Mercury songs on YouTube in loop. * It's always a pain to download photos of myself, tagged by family on Facebook.
        sid0 16y ago
        Firefox sync means I don't have to worry about losing my bookmarks, and I doubt I'm going to use anything but Firefox for a long while. Your other points are interesting, but I don't really see how they beat the awesomebar integration Firefox has.
      - u48998 16y ago
        Firefox 4 + Sync (Slurp to get the bookmarks out of delicious). Additionally, use Dropbox or SugarSync to backup bookmarks folder. With 5 copies of backed up bookmarks, you'll be covered from all sides.
- jokermatt999 16y ago
  If you keep history, I've found Firefox's AwesomeBar is incredibly useful for finding stuff if you can remember a fragment of the page title or url.
  - code_duck 16y ago
    Also, the Google Chrome bar is notably less useful for this. Chrome supplies completions assuming what you have typed is in the beginning of the URL, while Firefox searches within the URL, title, and so on.
- code_duck 16y ago
  My #1 use for bookmarks is to save particular page while researching a topic. I might do 20 searches with variations of terms, and find a useful page perhaps through a link on a page that came up in the search. Then, a few days later when I need that page again, Google search is not going to help I'd have to recreate the exact query that led to me finding the site in question. That is why bookmarks are still useful.
- teyc 16y ago
  People value things they already seen and know more than things they haven't. This is why bookmarking is always necessary. It is to aid recall.
lkozma 16y ago
Maybe because bookmarking is a bit like TODO apps: not technically difficult to do but everyone hates using someone else's system. Of course, Delicious was the exception :)

Groxx 16y ago

I've been using a combination of Pinboard and XMarks. Overall extremely happy so far - Pinboard manages about a thousand and has tags and one-click "read later" and offline searching and is my primary backup, and XMarks keeps my dozen browsers and 500 bookmarks in sync transparently (stable + beta + dev + sometimes nightly versions of a number of browsers).

dabent 16y ago

I joined Pinboard.in a while back and love it.

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davidwparker 16y ago

I use Chrome bookmarks and they sync to Google Docs... I'm not quite sure why they don't sync to Google Bookmarks. Nonetheless, I'm pleased with it as I'm on multiple systems and I still have my bookmarks built into my browser. Added bonus that when I start to "search" in the url/search bar, it brings up relevant bookmarks.

Tycho 16y ago

I swear by historio.us And they might just get my subscription once I use up my last 70 or so free bookmark slots. The two best features are that you get a good search function, and it caches the page for you in case the original one falls off the net.