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I bookmark things in pinboard that I may wish to find again, at some other point in time... I am helping my future self, and I appreciate that by paying pinboar
by buro9 3y ago
I bookmark things in pinboard that I may wish to find again, at some other point in time... I am helping my future self, and I appreciate that by paying pinboard to ensure a backup of the page is saved. I search the bookmarks every week or two, and I frequently search back years to "I recall a passage, but now want to read the full article again or share it with someone"... this works even when the site has long-ceased to exist because of the backup scraped at the time. I have bookmarks going back to the mid-1990s, and I do periodically (every year or two) look at which still work and which have fallen by the wayside for which I have no saved page — and I delete those.
Additionally I have this page https://david.kitchen/bookmarks/ https://david.kitchen/bookmarks/ which is my browser home page in all browsers, and is another form of a bookmark collection, and this is how I mostly interact... where pinboard is long-term storage of bookmarks, anything I interact with regularly enough is on this page. I update this whenever I find myself returning to the same thing for more than a few weeks.
I don't feel like I carry any baggage, the opposite in fact... I feel like this clears the mind of the responsibility to remember as this is mostly long-term memory and short-term convenience.
I also keep my browsers in permanent incognito mode with NoScript... so tab-city is not a thing I've ever done, every session is a blank session. I view bookmarks like data on a computer... it should be extremely portable across devices and OSs, and so bookmarks should transcend the device, a specific browser, and be available everywhere.