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Information hoarding was my big problem as well. To fight it, a few years ago, I stopped using any bookmark services, and I started to keep a list of links in a

Information hoarding was my big problem as well. To fight it, a few years ago, I stopped using any bookmark services, and I started to keep a list of links in a markdown text file with a limited number of tags. I split the links by month and often add a short description and a tag to a saved link. All IT tags are textual, but I use emojis for other link categories, such as music or books. Example content: ### 2022/12 - {musical note emoji} [Mendelssohn - Complete Piano Works](https://www.amazon.pl/Complete-Piano-Works-Prosseda/dp/B084DH6BG1/ https://www.amazon.pl/Complete-Piano-Works-Prosseda/dp/B084D...) - [Checked C](https://github.com/microsoft/checkedc https://github.com/microsoft/checkedc) - extensions to make C safer #cpp - [SQLite Internals: How The World's Most Used Database Works](https://www.compileralchemy.com/books/sqlite-internals/ https://www.compileralchemy.com/books/sqlite-internals/) - {book emoji} [Ask HN: Best books read in 2022?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33849267 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33849267) - some interesting pieces here ### 2022/11 - [The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide](https://sysprog21.github.io/lkmpg/ https://sysprog21.github.io/lkmpg/), [repo](https://github.com/sysprog21/lkmpg https://github.com/sysprog21/lkmpg) #linux ... And so on. I know it's simplistic, but it helped me a lot to keep the number of links under a reasonable limit, and it is effortless to search through.

mahogany 4y ago
This is funny, I went the other way. I used to keep text files of links quite similar to this, but then after several years I realized I rarely (perhaps a handful of times over years) went back to them. So I started using bookmarks with tags because it was much faster. I still rarely go back to bookmarks, but when I do, I find there is much less friction compared to scanning a text file.

mahogany 4y ago

This is funny, I went the other way. I used to keep text files of links quite similar to this, but then after several years I realized I rarely (perhaps a handful of times over years) went back to them. So I started using bookmarks with tags because it was much faster. I still rarely go back to bookmarks, but when I do, I find there is much less friction compared to scanning a text file.