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I'm a Pinboard user and am happy with the bookmarklet which in my experience works flawlessly. But... I (almost) never lookup any of my bookmarks. Googling is

by bambax 4y ago

I'm a Pinboard user and am happy with the bookmarklet which in my experience works flawlessly. But... I (almost) never lookup any of my bookmarks. Googling is faster -- and safer, since it's possible I'm wrong and didn't actually bookmark what I'm looking for. Bookmarking satisfies the mind; it's a bit like hoarding. Maybe the best bookmarking service would be a mock interface that doesn't actually do anything.

alfonsodev 4y ago
that's hilarious and maybe true!
morisy 4y ago
This, but for the read later service.
jabroni_salad 4y ago
Ever since I found the 'highlight or hide search engine results' extension I have pretty much never browsed raindrop directly for technical stuff. I do still keep it around for the webpage highlights and tagging my twitter likes, though.
iKlsR 4y ago
I agree as I've been in the same position but if you don't tag these properly then they are almost useless. Heavy bookmarker nowadays, 10s of thousands and I search it before I google because HIGH chances are it's something I've encountered before, even just a small tag like {math} helps greatly, even better, {math}, {vectors}, {gamedev}. I even dump research sessions there, eg. if I spend time on a gnarly bug or im grokking a new topic like ml and at the end I have 30 tabs open I save these as a group and label it as such "android opengl mapbox rendering issue", "math for ml" etc. One of the most annoying things is finding the perfect link and you know you did but can't find it again when you need to. Also god forbid you end up on a stackexchange site or forum and find yourself as the one answering (has caught me many times) [1]. [1] - Slightly related, https://xkcd.com/979/ https://xkcd.com/979/
- bambax 4y ago
  > Slightly related, https://xkcd.com/979/ https://xkcd.com/979/ This is happening to me right now! There's a bug in Reaper (a DAW) about handling gamepads. I found out that the bug was submitted first in... 2009, got no response from the devs and was not fixed. It does feel lonely sometimes.

by bambax 4y ago

alfonsodev 4y ago

that's hilarious and maybe true!

morisy 4y ago

This, but for the read later service.

jabroni_salad 4y ago

Ever since I found the 'highlight or hide search engine results' extension I have pretty much never browsed raindrop directly for technical stuff. I do still keep it around for the webpage highlights and tagging my twitter likes, though.

iKlsR 4y ago

I agree as I've been in the same position but if you don't tag these properly then they are almost useless. Heavy bookmarker nowadays, 10s of thousands and I search it before I google because HIGH chances are it's something I've encountered before, even just a small tag like {math} helps greatly, even better, {math}, {vectors}, {gamedev}. I even dump research sessions there, eg. if I spend time on a gnarly bug or im grokking a new topic like ml and at the end I have 30 tabs open I save these as a group and label it as such "android opengl mapbox rendering issue", "math for ml" etc. One of the most annoying things is finding the perfect link and you know you did but can't find it again when you need to. Also god forbid you end up on a stackexchange site or forum and find yourself as the one answering (has caught me many times) [1]. [1] - Slightly related, https://xkcd.com/979/ https://xkcd.com/979/

bambax 4y ago
> Slightly related, https://xkcd.com/979/ https://xkcd.com/979/ This is happening to me right now! There's a bug in Reaper (a DAW) about handling gamepads. I found out that the bug was submitted first in... 2009, got no response from the devs and was not fixed. It does feel lonely sometimes.