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I can’t believe that neither can do decent bookmarks.

by dotcoma 5y ago

scaglio 5y ago
Any suggestions/extension for better bookmarks management?
- Steltek 5y ago
  I've given up on the built-in bookmarks in all browsers and even the New Tab page. I wrote up a single file HTML page and checked it into my dotfiles repos. Icons are short data urls of SVG with a hover drop down (like Reddit and various subreddits). I like that it's "self hosted" and not some 3rd party site. I have hundreds of bookmarks, all neatly categorized, compared to the New Tab page's paltry 16 or whatever. I also get the exact same page in Firefox (personal), Chrome (work), or Firefox/Android. It sounded silly at first but now I can't live without it.
  - ravenstine 5y ago
    Are you saying you have your new-tab page set to a `file://` URL that points to an HTML file? If so, that's a pretty excellent idea. :D
    - Steltek 5y ago
      Yes but a little more complicated than that. You need an add-on, as the old "homepage" preferences seem to have gone by the wayside or don't work as expected.
  - slightwinder 5y ago
    Isn't that awful to maintain?
- rytcio 5y ago
  I use https://www.raindrop.io https://www.raindrop.io
- throwaway78981 5y ago
  Pinboard is a good one. You can even upload PDFs etc and search the text within the PDF. Paid though. It's cheap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinboard_(website) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinboard_(website) Desktop site: https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/ Mobile site: https://m.pinboard.in/ https://m.pinboard.in/ iOS/iPadOS/macOS app: https://get-pins.app/ https://get-pins.app/
  - rubik11 5y ago
    Hey I just started using Pinboard last week. Are the Earlier/Later buttons working for you? Clicking on Earlier only seems to take me one page back. Successive clicks(of Earlier or Later) return that same page of bookmarks. Tried on Safari and Chrome. Thanks
- andrew_jef 5y ago
  i use Raindrop.io Freemium, u have unlimited bookmarks, tag system, folder, notes, and simple search. With an affordable subscription, you have a nested folder hierarchy, and permanent cache of your bookmarked items
jjice 5y ago
What's wrong with Firefox bookmarks? I quite like them, but if there's something I'm missing out on, I'd like to know.
- account42 5y ago
  Well for one, it should save a snapshot at the page with each bookmark so that it will still be useful in the future when that site goes offline. Then add full text search through those snapshots.
- celsoazevedo 5y ago
  None of the following stops me from using bookmarks on Firefox, but they're part of my list of Firefox annoyances: - The bookmarks bar doesn't "fit" the current and previous two UIs. Margins/paddings are all wrong, at least on macOS. Why design a new UI if you're not going to apply it to everything? - The bookmarks manager still opens on an old window, with small text, even though Firefox went the "Chrome way" and started using tabs, not windows for this type of content. Only recently this window started supporting dark mode. - Bookmarks behave differently from other links. Eg: it doesn't respect the shortcut to open a link in the background. - Bookmark icons are hard to update. While other browsers update the favicon when we visit the page, Firefox doesn't always do that. We need some hack or addon to force the browser to delete all favicons and then load each link so it gets the new favicon... why make it so hard? - Not 100% related to bookmarks, but when opening a different bookmarks at once (eg: a folder), Firefox doesn't seem to prioritise the active tab. Chromium appears to be faster because of this. I'm currently using Firefox, but I'll be honest: it's a mess of a browser. Old and new code, different philosophies, different UIs, all used side by side. Even more annoying is the fact that they ignore all this and use their limited resources on stuff that is mostly fine (eg: a new UI, a new search bar, etc).

I can’t believe that neither can do decent bookmarks.

scaglio 5y ago

Any suggestions/extension for better bookmarks management?

Steltek 5y ago
I've given up on the built-in bookmarks in all browsers and even the New Tab page. I wrote up a single file HTML page and checked it into my dotfiles repos. Icons are short data urls of SVG with a hover drop down (like Reddit and various subreddits). I like that it's "self hosted" and not some 3rd party site. I have hundreds of bookmarks, all neatly categorized, compared to the New Tab page's paltry 16 or whatever. I also get the exact same page in Firefox (personal), Chrome (work), or Firefox/Android. It sounded silly at first but now I can't live without it.
- ravenstine 5y ago
  Are you saying you have your new-tab page set to a `file://` URL that points to an HTML file? If so, that's a pretty excellent idea. :D
  - Steltek 5y ago
    Yes but a little more complicated than that. You need an add-on, as the old "homepage" preferences seem to have gone by the wayside or don't work as expected.
- slightwinder 5y ago
  Isn't that awful to maintain?
rytcio 5y ago
I use https://www.raindrop.io https://www.raindrop.io
throwaway78981 5y ago
Pinboard is a good one. You can even upload PDFs etc and search the text within the PDF. Paid though. It's cheap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinboard_(website) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinboard_(website) Desktop site: https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/ Mobile site: https://m.pinboard.in/ https://m.pinboard.in/ iOS/iPadOS/macOS app: https://get-pins.app/ https://get-pins.app/
- rubik11 5y ago
  Hey I just started using Pinboard last week. Are the Earlier/Later buttons working for you? Clicking on Earlier only seems to take me one page back. Successive clicks(of Earlier or Later) return that same page of bookmarks. Tried on Safari and Chrome. Thanks
andrew_jef 5y ago
i use Raindrop.io Freemium, u have unlimited bookmarks, tag system, folder, notes, and simple search. With an affordable subscription, you have a nested folder hierarchy, and permanent cache of your bookmarked items

jjice 5y ago

What's wrong with Firefox bookmarks? I quite like them, but if there's something I'm missing out on, I'd like to know.

account42 5y ago
Well for one, it should save a snapshot at the page with each bookmark so that it will still be useful in the future when that site goes offline. Then add full text search through those snapshots.
celsoazevedo 5y ago
None of the following stops me from using bookmarks on Firefox, but they're part of my list of Firefox annoyances: - The bookmarks bar doesn't "fit" the current and previous two UIs. Margins/paddings are all wrong, at least on macOS. Why design a new UI if you're not going to apply it to everything? - The bookmarks manager still opens on an old window, with small text, even though Firefox went the "Chrome way" and started using tabs, not windows for this type of content. Only recently this window started supporting dark mode. - Bookmarks behave differently from other links. Eg: it doesn't respect the shortcut to open a link in the background. - Bookmark icons are hard to update. While other browsers update the favicon when we visit the page, Firefox doesn't always do that. We need some hack or addon to force the browser to delete all favicons and then load each link so it gets the new favicon... why make it so hard? - Not 100% related to bookmarks, but when opening a different bookmarks at once (eg: a folder), Firefox doesn't seem to prioritise the active tab. Chromium appears to be faster because of this. I'm currently using Firefox, but I'll be honest: it's a mess of a browser. Old and new code, different philosophies, different UIs, all used side by side. Even more annoying is the fact that they ignore all this and use their limited resources on stuff that is mostly fine (eg: a new UI, a new search bar, etc).