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I realized I was overusing bookmarks. I now save webpages (perhaps as PDF) if it contains information I want to refer to later, such as an insightful article, t

I realized I was overusing bookmarks. I now save webpages (perhaps as PDF) if it contains information I want to refer to later, such as an insightful article, technical information, a humorous bit, or the like. Bookmarks are good only for links to things for which only the most current version is worth accessing. That’s my banking websites, a shopping site, my employer’s remote desktop system, etc.

dewey 2y ago
There's also https://archivebox.io https://archivebox.io which can take your bookmarks and archive them in many ways. Unfortunately back when I tried it last time it was a big buggy, I wish there was a better solution to build a nice archive of the sites I visit more often just in case.
- zimpenfish 2y ago
  I found the Chrome it uses for fetching needs a kick every couple of days. That definitely improved my experience.
dotancohen 2y ago
How much disk space did that consume? I like the idea that in addition to saving the page, you can annotate it as well.
- massysett 2y ago
  Not a noticeable amount in this age when even expensive SSD storage has multiple gigabytes. Even pages with multiple images just aren’t that big on a typical hard drive.
  - dotancohen 2y ago
    But I'm still backing up offsite and have to consider that as well.
ByThyGrace 2y ago
On that same vein, shoutout to Epub Press[0]: a browser extension/web service that packs selected open tabs into a neat conformant .epub file. 0: https://epub.press https://epub.press
rchaud 2y ago
I save webpages as PDF because they retain the images and fonts of the original page. One issue I run into is that sticky headers/footers used on websites often obscure top/bottom text of the page when exported to PDF. This can be addressed by using UBO to remove the sticky DOM elements before saving, but it's a bit of a hassle.
- dontdieych 2y ago
  singlefile browser extension is quite good in this regard
amelius 2y ago
This is something a browser could in theory do for you.
toomuchtodo 2y ago
Others have recommended ArchiveBox, I will recommend using any bookmarking tool that fires off a web request to the Wayback Machine to archive a page when you create the bookmark.
- brokenmachine 2y ago
  I have a bookmarklet that points to: javascript:(function(){daurl='https://web.archive.org/save/';if(location.href.indexOf('http')!=0){input=prompt('URL:','http://');if(input!=null){location.href=daurl+input}}else{location.href=daurl+location.href;}})(); This has the keyword "way" in my Firefox bookmark. So when I'm on a page I want to save, I just press Ctrl-L (to focus the URL bar), then type "way" to save the page on Wayback Machine.

dewey 2y ago

There's also https://archivebox.io https://archivebox.io which can take your bookmarks and archive them in many ways. Unfortunately back when I tried it last time it was a big buggy, I wish there was a better solution to build a nice archive of the sites I visit more often just in case.

zimpenfish 2y ago
I found the Chrome it uses for fetching needs a kick every couple of days. That definitely improved my experience.

dotancohen 2y ago

How much disk space did that consume? I like the idea that in addition to saving the page, you can annotate it as well.

massysett 2y ago
Not a noticeable amount in this age when even expensive SSD storage has multiple gigabytes. Even pages with multiple images just aren’t that big on a typical hard drive.
- dotancohen 2y ago
  But I'm still backing up offsite and have to consider that as well.

ByThyGrace 2y ago

On that same vein, shoutout to Epub Press[0]: a browser extension/web service that packs selected open tabs into a neat conformant .epub file. 0: https://epub.press https://epub.press

rchaud 2y ago

I save webpages as PDF because they retain the images and fonts of the original page. One issue I run into is that sticky headers/footers used on websites often obscure top/bottom text of the page when exported to PDF. This can be addressed by using UBO to remove the sticky DOM elements before saving, but it's a bit of a hassle.

dontdieych 2y ago
singlefile browser extension is quite good in this regard

amelius 2y ago

This is something a browser could in theory do for you.

toomuchtodo 2y ago

Others have recommended ArchiveBox, I will recommend using any bookmarking tool that fires off a web request to the Wayback Machine to archive a page when you create the bookmark.

brokenmachine 2y ago
I have a bookmarklet that points to: javascript:(function(){daurl='https://web.archive.org/save/';if(location.href.indexOf('http')!=0){input=prompt('URL:','http://');if(input!=null){location.href=daurl+input}}else{location.href=daurl+location.href;}})(); This has the keyword "way" in my Firefox bookmark. So when I'm on a page I want to save, I just press Ctrl-L (to focus the URL bar), then type "way" to save the page on Wayback Machine.