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I (still) use Pinboard: https://pinboard.in/u:pratyush https://pinboard.in/u:pratyush Reasons: 1. Archives - those tutorials and guides stay when the origi

I (still) use Pinboard: https://pinboard.in/u:pratyush https://pinboard.in/u:pratyush Reasons: 1. Archives - those tutorials and guides stay when the original pages go 404 2. API - I use the api to automatically post my bookmarks to my blog 3. Full-text search: this is very very useful when needed 4. Social Discovery: Search that niche website / app on Pinboard. It shows lots of other people who found that same thing as interesting. We can then follow them and subscribe to their favourites as RSS feed.

jnovek 4y ago
I just became a Pinboard customer a few months ago! I picked Pinboard because the UI is simple but functional. No 30mb blob of JavaScript. It pairs well with todo.txt… now I just need a simple Dropbox-based notes app to complete the trio.
robterrell 4y ago
I also continue to use Pinboard, for much the same reasons. Since 2010! I don't use the social features but it's nice to have a tool that's been constant and reliable for over a decade.
- ghaff 4y ago
  The same. I started using it after Magnolia died. I used to do link blog posts via a script that used the API but stopped doing that at one point.
tclancy 4y ago
Same. Having imported my delicious bookmarks dating back to 2005 or so, I have a fairly large set of links that I try to tag consistently. I don't actually read a ton of them, but being able to full-text search or filter by combining tags makes it really useful for digging up things I barely remember coming across.
klenwell 4y ago
I use the API to send myself a daily email with a combination of random and anniversary bookmarks: https://github.com/klenwell/pinprick https://github.com/klenwell/pinprick I find it a good way to keep in touch with past bookmarks and do some light maintenance.
- AareyBaba 4y ago
  Maciej has a 'random' bookmarklet you can drag to your browser toolbar. See https://pinboard.in/howto/ https://pinboard.in/howto/
some_furry 4y ago
I love Pinboard. It has all the features I'd expect from a bookmarking service, but nothing superfluous. There's no upsell. There's no advertisement or JavaScript bloat. Part of the reason for Pinboard's success is the lack of VC pressure for growth. I'm happy to keep paying for Pinboard indefinitely.
jng 4y ago
I use pinboard as well. Early user of del.icio.us, I exported it all to pinboard and paid a one-time lifetime fee. Too many old links are dead, but that's the nature of the web, and I hope waybackmachine can help with some of them (I never paid for the full-text-archive feature of pinboard, it would have been a good idea but it's too late now). Sometimes it definitely helps me find some old highlights that still lurk in a shiny way in my mind.
Semiapies 4y ago
It's a great service.
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windexh8er 4y ago
Pinboard is phenomenal. I used to keep all my links in Simplenote but Pinboard is far superior for a number of the reasons listed here already. I may only search through it for something once a week but I find I tag things much more thoroughly in Pinboard than anything else I've used.
blakewatson 4y ago
I’ve been a Pinboard customer since 2010 and I subscribed to the archival service several years. But archival seems to have stopped on my account. I think I emailed once but never received a reply (which I’ve heard is common). I love the philosophy of Pinboard and I also like Maciej. That said I recently decided to roll my own bookmarks tool with Wayback Machine archival capability. https://github.com/blakewatson/bookmarks https://github.com/blakewatson/bookmarks
- eitland 4y ago
  Archival hasn't been working for months for me and nobody answers the mails (I've tried three times over the last year or so) so as much as I like pinboard.in at the moment I am looking for something else
gammarator 4y ago
14k bookmarks in Pinboard for me! Major use case is helping me close tabs, but I search for old stuff with some frequency.
skinnymuch 4y ago
Archiving can’t do pages that need authentication. Which are frequently the most important for me. Either way the archiving does not work very well. I have over 30K bookmarks and add multiple hundreds a month.

jnovek 4y ago

I just became a Pinboard customer a few months ago! I picked Pinboard because the UI is simple but functional. No 30mb blob of JavaScript. It pairs well with todo.txt… now I just need a simple Dropbox-based notes app to complete the trio.

robterrell 4y ago

I also continue to use Pinboard, for much the same reasons. Since 2010! I don't use the social features but it's nice to have a tool that's been constant and reliable for over a decade.

ghaff 4y ago
The same. I started using it after Magnolia died. I used to do link blog posts via a script that used the API but stopped doing that at one point.

tclancy 4y ago

Same. Having imported my delicious bookmarks dating back to 2005 or so, I have a fairly large set of links that I try to tag consistently. I don't actually read a ton of them, but being able to full-text search or filter by combining tags makes it really useful for digging up things I barely remember coming across.

klenwell 4y ago

I use the API to send myself a daily email with a combination of random and anniversary bookmarks: https://github.com/klenwell/pinprick https://github.com/klenwell/pinprick I find it a good way to keep in touch with past bookmarks and do some light maintenance.

AareyBaba 4y ago
Maciej has a 'random' bookmarklet you can drag to your browser toolbar. See https://pinboard.in/howto/ https://pinboard.in/howto/

some_furry 4y ago

I love Pinboard. It has all the features I'd expect from a bookmarking service, but nothing superfluous. There's no upsell. There's no advertisement or JavaScript bloat. Part of the reason for Pinboard's success is the lack of VC pressure for growth. I'm happy to keep paying for Pinboard indefinitely.

jng 4y ago

I use pinboard as well. Early user of del.icio.us, I exported it all to pinboard and paid a one-time lifetime fee. Too many old links are dead, but that's the nature of the web, and I hope waybackmachine can help with some of them (I never paid for the full-text-archive feature of pinboard, it would have been a good idea but it's too late now). Sometimes it definitely helps me find some old highlights that still lurk in a shiny way in my mind.

Semiapies 4y ago

It's a great service.

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windexh8er 4y ago

Pinboard is phenomenal. I used to keep all my links in Simplenote but Pinboard is far superior for a number of the reasons listed here already. I may only search through it for something once a week but I find I tag things much more thoroughly in Pinboard than anything else I've used.

blakewatson 4y ago

I’ve been a Pinboard customer since 2010 and I subscribed to the archival service several years. But archival seems to have stopped on my account. I think I emailed once but never received a reply (which I’ve heard is common). I love the philosophy of Pinboard and I also like Maciej. That said I recently decided to roll my own bookmarks tool with Wayback Machine archival capability. https://github.com/blakewatson/bookmarks https://github.com/blakewatson/bookmarks

eitland 4y ago
Archival hasn't been working for months for me and nobody answers the mails (I've tried three times over the last year or so) so as much as I like pinboard.in at the moment I am looking for something else

gammarator 4y ago

14k bookmarks in Pinboard for me! Major use case is helping me close tabs, but I search for old stuff with some frequency.

skinnymuch 4y ago

Archiving can’t do pages that need authentication. Which are frequently the most important for me. Either way the archiving does not work very well. I have over 30K bookmarks and add multiple hundreds a month.