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Show HN: Keep your bookmarks clean and up-to-date
- yannovitch 5y agoI have around 40.000 bookmarks that I try to keep organized (as resources for my blogs, future ideas, etc...). I have an hard time keeping track of what's not good anymore. Is your extension a good fit for such a large collection of bookmarks ? (Plus, I'm on firefox, so +1 for a firefox extension)
- neiman1 5y agoTo be honest I haven't tested it on anywhere near that quantity of bookmarks, so I'm not entirely sure how well it'd perform. My suggestion would be to either wait for the extension to mature a little bit before testing it, or to export your bookmarks first so you have a backup. The extension itself is non-destructive in that it won't delete your bookmarks, but there may well be undiscovered bugs that could mess up your current organization of bookmarks, etc.
- Maledictus 5y agoPlease add a license to your code. https://choosealicense.com/ https://choosealicense.com/ if you need help.
- neiman1 5y agoGood catch, added an MIT license.
- neiman1 5y agoHey HN, this is just a super simple browser extension that I put together in a few hours to fix the annoying issue of bookmarks becoming outdated (e.g. the bookmarked page being deleted or removed). Just run the extension every once in a while to update the favicons and move dead sites into a trash folder (where you can then decide whether you want to keep or delete them). Thanks to hrez for the suggestion in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29796099 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29796099 -- Repo: https://github.com/samueldobbie/remarkable-extension https://github.com/samueldobbie/remarkable-extension Chrome Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/remarkable/mjmbcbgnjacnhjpoikgilmocjlfmcogp https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/remarkable/mjmbcbg...
- baddate 5y ago> this is just a super simple browser extension But this extension works for me very well. This is a very nice idea!
- imwillofficial 5y agoGreat work!
- neiman1 5y agoThanks a lot!
- helb 5y agoHaven't tried it yet, but potential feature idea – an option to try to find these dead bookmarks in archive.org & update the links instead of moving them to trash.
- neiman1 5y agoGreat idea - appreciate you sharing.
- scrollaway 5y agoIf you do this, which would be awesome actually and I second the request, I recommend shooting the bookmarks to http://web.archive.org/save/<url> http://web.archive.org/save/<url> to make sure the archive scrapes it at the time of bookmarking.
- neiman1 5y agoI like that! Could definitely see it being quite a valuable option, provided it was opt-in.
- riidom 5y agoI sometimes rename bookmarks when the name is too verbose and not to the point. It may be good to have an option for not updating the names. And in case of dead links maybe prepend the name with "[404]" or similar instead of moving?
- anthropodie 5y agoDo yourself a favor and use one of the below tools instead of browser based bookmarks 1. LinkAce: Save your bookmarks and organize them with tags and lists. The bookmarked page is gone? No worries. LinkAce automatically links it to archive.org page. 2. Shiori: Save bookmarks, archive them or use it like pocket. Like LinkAce you can organize your bookmarks using tags [1]: https://www.linkace.org/ https://www.linkace.org/ | https://github.com/Kovah/LinkAce/ https://github.com/Kovah/LinkAce/ [2]: https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori
- browningstreet 5y agoMy browser based bookmarks are a far denser and more accessible collection of links than any of those links can manage, in presentation mode. I maintain bookmarks across 3 browsers and account profiles and groom them regularly and archive them myself and wish browsers took bookmarks/favorites more seriously.
- pronoiac 5y agoOr Pinboard - https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/ - which can monitor your Twitter account, even locked accounts, and automatically bookmark and archive links there, and you can search the full text for archived links. Using browser-based bookmarks would definitely be a step backwards for me. My phone, my tablet, my laptop and the multiple browsers I use there - it's much easier to know where I filed something this way, and find it again. Also, I prefer tags to folders.
- Hoefner 5y agoIn somewhat relatable thread some people reported problems which pinboard faced recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30424671 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30424671 with dead support and unstable archiving
- vymague 5y ago> 2. Shiori: Save bookmarks, archive them or use it like pocket. Thanks for the rec. I've been looking for a pocket alternative. Just a simple bookmark manager that can archive articles. Ideally a desktop app and work offline too. None of that self-hosting stuffs. I will give Shiori a try. edit: Never mind. This is not what I'm looking for.
- imwillofficial 5y agoAny HN tips on heuristics for bookmark management?
- modzu 5y agoyet another speed dial (thats the name): https://github.com/conceptualspace/yet-another-speed-dial https://github.com/conceptualspace/yet-another-speed-dial
- vymague 5y agoMore for read it later services like pocket, but I like https://medium.com/life-hacks/fighting-information-overload-with-the-impending-doom-engine-9cbd3899b87 https://medium.com/life-hacks/fighting-information-overload-... Basically delete everything every week.
- KennyBlanken 5y agoThe cost of a dead bookmark hanging around is virtually zero and nowhere near the overhead (and small but non-zero risk) of another extension. Sometimes there is value in knowing that a site has gone under, versus you not being able to remember the URL. One can fetch dead URLs via Wayback machine. The chances of a site (or several) temporarily being unreachable out of all my bookmarks is very much non-zero and I could see this plugin trimming bookmarks unnecessarily.
- vehemenz 5y agoSometimes a page is moved but not deleted. If you have some metadata, then you can find the page again.
- adparadox 5y agoIf anyone is looking for a hosted solution for bookmarks, I've been building devmarks.io on the side for the past few months which automatically syncs GitHub stars, Twitter likes, Hacker News favorites, and Pinboard.in bookmarks into one central location. Bookmarks can be added manually. I also retrieve extra metadata for developer-centric sites (think: number of forks and stars from GitHub repos, version numbers from PyPI, publish date from dev.to articles, etc). I automatically keep all of the bookmark data up to date once a day and back up the content in a readable format without ads or annoying pop-ups. I'd love to hear any feedback if you try it out!
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- swframe2 5y agoI started sending myself email. I have a filter which moves them to a dedicated folder. I sometimes post the content of the webpage into the body of the email if I worry the site might go away. I will reply to my messages when I want to save additional notes and related information.
- financetechbro 5y agoIn case you didn’t know - if you email an article in ‘reader mode’ it will automatically copy the text to the body of the email as well as including the hyper link to the webpage
- hammyhavoc 5y agoWould love to see a Firefox version of this.
- neiman1 5y agoPlanning to add Firefox support soon!
- ggsp 5y agoThank you! Any way to be notified when that happens?
- neiman1 5y agoThe easiest way would be to join this newsletter https://creative-knitter-9009.ck.page/66aa398945 https://creative-knitter-9009.ck.page/66aa398945 (excuse the domain, just put it together now). Alternatively, you could subscribe to this issue https://github.com/samueldobbie/remarkable-extension/issues/2 https://github.com/samueldobbie/remarkable-extension/issues/...
- ksec 5y agoI dont suppose you by any chance might have an Apple developer Account.....? :)
- neiman1 5y agoNot yet, although I recently made the switch from Linux to macOS, so Safari support is likely to be on the roadmap!
- raspyberr 5y agoBookmarked to do later.