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> Honestly, who uses bookmarks any more? They just turn into a bloated to-do list, hundreds of links you'll forget about until one day you try them and the doma
by SahAssar 5y ago
> Honestly, who uses bookmarks any more? They just turn into a bloated to-do list, hundreds of links you'll forget about until one day you try them and the domain no longer exists
Use a service like pinboard and they instead turn into a searchable archive of things you like, archived so that they don't disappear/change. Sorta like a curated personal search engine.
- ad404b8a372f2b9 5y agoI've always thought it a shame how primitive the history and bookmarks are in Firefox. They don't seem to have evolved at all in 20 years apart from the ability to sync them across devices.
- hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago> I've always thought it a shame how primitive the history and bookmarks are in Firefox. While I agree with you, since you added "in Firefox", actually Firefox lets me do more with my bookmarks than Chrome.
- ad404b8a372f2b9 5y agoFair point, I didn't mean to disparage Firefox it's just the only one I've ever used.
- zacharybk 5y agoFirefox fixed this for you. They bought pocket and turned it into a paid product. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/news/mozilla-acquires-pocket/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/news/mozilla-acquires-po...
- l8rlump 5y agoIn Firefox I feel I can probably do away with bookmarks because of the address bar autocompletion. I think they used to call it the awesome bar, but I haven't heard that term for many years. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplete-firefox?redirectslug=awesome-bar-search-firefox-bookmarks-history-tabs&redirectlocale=en-US https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplet...
- luismartinezs 5y agoWhat's this pinboard service you mention?
- SahAssar 5y agohttps://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/ It's run by idlewords here on HN, who also gives great talks and writes on https://idlewords.com/ https://idlewords.com/
- klibertp 5y agoI want an offline solution for this. What's the point of saving content from the Internet on the same Internet? You lose your connection and immediately lose access to all the saved content. So, does anyone know of any solution like this, but running locally instead? I tried Recoll, and both the FF extension and the query engine were... unpolished, to say the least... EDIT: mentioned in another comment Web Clipper + Joplin looks really nice!
- NylaTheWolf 5y agoRaindrop.io and Pocket can save articles on the Premium plan and Raindrop does it automatically it seems, it does have a few limits though. Wallabag costs money but you can self host it. I heard it's good!
- klibertp 5y agoThank you! For anyone else wondering: Raindrop costs 35 euro per year (but has a limited free version) and Wallabag starts from 3 euro per year, and has options for 5 and 25 euro, but I'm not sure if this influences functionality or is simply a way of donating money to the project.
- NylaTheWolf 5y agoI mean I know AlternativeTo lists it as paid.
- sturakov 5y agoI would personally recommend https://github.com/rhizome-conifer/conifer https://github.com/rhizome-conifer/conifer The intent is a webrecorder for the internet. It records all js libraries, loads videos, and all else. Once stored, you can review a snapshot at that point in time. They have a service option, webrecorder.io, but this one let's you store directly locally.
- Farow 5y agoI'd recommend [SingleFile](https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile) for saving web pages, [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/ https://obsidian.md/) for taking notes and [Syncthing](https://syncthing.net/ https://syncthing.net/) for syncing between devices. Combining these can let you access any saved pages or notes on any device.