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Do people not use bookmarks? I have thousands of them. What are the alternatives that I'm missing out on? (big xmarks user too so sync is a must)
by pjriot 15y ago
Do people not use bookmarks? I have thousands of them. What are the alternatives that I'm missing out on? (big xmarks user too so sync is a must)
- AdamGibbins 15y agoI store all my bookmarks in http://pinboard.in http://pinboard.in, much better organisation, sorting, faster, cross-os, cross-browser.
- pjriot 15y agoLooks great, but I'm happy with what I have now so I'm not too pushed about spending money on a service. I'm also old enough to worry about trusting a site to hang around for 10 years with my data. (and by old enough, read: stuck in my ways enough) Must look into the migration effort though. And browser addon support. Its definitely a sweet looking service.
- AdamGibbins 15y agoIf you go for the premium service, a bargain $25 a month you get the ability to have it scrape and download every site you bookmark. So even if the site you bookmarked goes down, you retain the content. Pinboard also has good APIs so you can backup your data. No lock-in.
- pjriot 15y agoJeez, did not know that. I was thinking of writing something like that myself with version control for page updates just to be safe.
- pjriot 15y agoHoly crap, its $25 a year. That is a bargain.
- AdamGibbins 15y agoUrh, sorry - yes. s/month/year/ Total typo, sorry. Worth noting thats 25 minus your signup fee. So more likely $16 for your first year.
- smackfu 15y agoMost people use Google, or something like Facebook gets autocompleted.
- bilban 15y agoMost people?
- metageek 15y agoAnd the autocomplete relies on the Places system, which is what is hanging (or was, until a few weeks ago).
- pjriot 15y agoI'd say I do too, even for stuff I have bookmarked. In fact 80% of my bookmarks provide nothing other than peace of mind for a person with a terrible memory. :)
- gurraman 15y agoI haven't used the built-in bookmarks feature for years. I checked just now, and I have 10 bookmarks stored (all of them used for quick searching in FF). I still use the concept though, I just offload them to Delicious where they can be properly tagged and shared.
- yellowbkpk 15y agoI have roughly a dozen sites I go to. Most of them happen to have different first characters, so I type "f" and Chrome autocompletes http://fark.com/ http://fark.com/ and off I go. No bookmarks other than the shared history Google keeps for me.
- pjriot 15y agoI use them pretty heavily for reference/todo/toread type of stuff. And I have a terrible memory.
- dagw 15y agoMost (non-technical) people I know just use a combination of the browser history and Google.