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For almost an entire decade, I forgot that bookmarks exist, why would anyone use them when you have Google? Over the past year, I've fallen in love with my
by akira2501 2y ago
For almost an entire decade, I forgot that bookmarks exist, why would anyone use them when you have Google?
Over the past year, I've fallen in love with my bookmarks again. They're curated. They take me right to the answer I want. You can set the "omnibar" up to search your bookmarks. They don't hallucinate themselves into existence.
So, thanks Google, I've gone back to 1999, for the total failure that your service is.
- beachy 2y agoIdentical experience! Though ironically, having useful bookmarks pushed me into turning on sync in chrome so they would be accessible one all devices, pulling me further into the Google tarpit.
- skydhash 2y agoon macOS, I use anybox (I could do with a note app, but it’s neat). For the past year, any interesting link I come across, I add it there. The few I use daily, I add them to the browser as bookmarks. Most of my browsing is autocompleting from the history instead of search engines.
- renegat0x0 2y agoI read that grimoire is quite popular repo. I haven't used it, but looks promising to self host. https://github.com/goniszewski/grimoire https://github.com/goniszewski/grimoire
- rchaud 2y agoA lot of my bookmarks from 2015 onwards (the year I bought my last laptop) are 404'ing. I wish I had the foresight to bookmark Internet Archive pages instead. But I too switched to just Googling instead of referencing my bookmark list. The UI of bookmarks needs to be updated so it's more than just a favicon and page title. Google shows previews of the page content in its links, so it's easier to know if the link is the page you're looking for.