Ask HN: Where do you store bookmarks?

I'd actually be interested in hearing about this too. I stopped storing them in my browser now.

I figure some kind of org-mode solution will be my eventual tactic, but I'm interesting if anyone else on here has a more purpose built system.

If you mean social bookmarking, I don't do that. If I find something interesting I share it on HN (happens really rarely) or on the chat of the "newsroom" for our podcast.

If it's stuff that I need to bookmark for further personal use, I have an owncloud (yes, I know) instance with the Bookmarks app installed.

I have a huge collection on Pinboard https://pinboard.in/. It's a very simple browser-accessible site that charges $11 per year for what seems like an unlimited number of bookmarks. The item properties are URL, title, description and tag(s). And it displays how many other users have added the same link. I consider this tool indispensable.

Try https://www.pagedash.com

Works like an archiver for web pages, saves everything! Yes includes bookmarking

Built by a friend!

I have had a big issue with storing bookmarks and found Safari's way of managing them too limiting.

I decided to off load my public bookmarks to the web and let other people manage my bookmark collection instead. I built Learn Anything (https://learn-anything.xyz) to store my 'learning' bookmarks. And I manage many curated GitHub lists to store everything else (https://github.com/learn-anything/curated-lists).

I also have a wiki that stores both bookmarks and my notes, open source. This way anyone can extend both the bookmarks and notes if they wish. (https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz)

I have then built my own tool in Go to query any of these public bookmarks. (https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/alfred-learn-anything)

About a year ago I copied everything into Evernote. I had a bunch of disparate bookmarks across different desktop/mobile browsers and in places like medium/feedly. I created notebooks for different topics (in my case, "Data Science", "Frontend", "Design / Product", "Personal Efficiency", etc.). Then I use Evernote's chrome plugin to clip pages (I usually clip the whole thing so Evernote can do full text search over it). I then use tags for sub-sections of each topic. It's worked pretty well for me and I'm able to hold onto things even if the original source goes away.

another vote for pinboard.in. Some features that make it well worth the full cost:

- Cached snapshots

- search bookmarks by actual boolean operations on tags, which is something hardly anyone does for reasons I've never understood.

- Fast, simple website. Everything that was good about 1999.

- Browser integrations for every browser worth mentioning

- OS integration for quick search outside of a browser

- mobile apps aplenty (i use Pinner on iOS)

- fully private bookmarks, if you want (which I do)

- nice API (I have some silly python scripts that give me tag statistics and clean things up; they took about 20 minutes to write)

- it's a one-man show, and he answers emails!

- tarball-of-all-your-data on demand.

+1 for pinboard.in

I have been using it for years and all my bookmarks are private. I love that it is very minimal, with exactly the features I need, and doesn't tie me to a browser. It has an API, plenty of apps and browser plugins, and I've always found Matiej to be responsive whenever I've had a problem.

He also has a great twitter account, where he spends a lot of time being snarky about tech companies [1].

[1]: https://twitter.com/pinboard

An org file on my hard drive. It's plain text so... universally supported everywhere, woo!

I just dump everything in Instapaper.

Firefox. Bookmarks are synced across multiple platforms.

Diigo is working fine for me. They try to do more (annotations eg) but I don't use it.

I used to bookmark things, then realized I never went back to look at them.

If I find something especially interesting and important, I email a link to myself.

Most of the time if I want to find something again it's easier to just google it again than to dig through bookmarks.

Evernote for things that I may need to come back to later in the future or remember (documentation, guides, workarounds, lists, etc), Pocket for articles that I'd like to read sometime but that I never actually read.

Kozmos: https://getkozmos.com

It simplifies adding and organizing bookmarks into a heart button, also uses modern & open source libraries (https://github.com/kozmos/likedb) so you can build your own clients & servers.

ps. I built Kozmos as one of the first users of both delicious and pinboard, feedback is welcome.

Used to just use a plain text file, but that's become untenable.

Going to really start using pinboard.in

Have been bookmarking in Firefox, which is great for syncing between devices. But I got so many even that's seeming slow and hard to search through (but to be fair maybe I'll have the same problems with pinboard once I get to that many.)

https://pinboard.in

Been a Pinboard user for several years. Simple and flexible. You can use tags to organize everything or fill in the bookmarks description field and use search. Have over 4,000 URLs saved with no issues. Easy to backup with a one line script.

  curl "https://api.pinboard.in/v1/posts/all?auth_token={$pinboard_api_key}&format=json" -o $pinboard_backup_dir 

Pinboard also has some good Twitter integrations that might speed up your Bookmarking process https://pinboard.in/faq/#twitter_archive_extent

I use Things 3 to store bookmarks.

For sites that I visit often, I add them to my browser bookmarks in Chrome. Mainly for the autocomplete when I start typing the name of the site. Things to read get queued in the browser bookmark bar where they are visible, and I fight a losing battle with this getting too full.

For links to reference material and reading I have a collection of private OneNote notebooks with links and notes and bits of code. These notebooks are sync'd in a onedrive folder so I can access then in Office on my primary machine, or via the onenote webapp at work. It may not be fashionable but I like OneNote.

I used to use delicio.us back in the day, but never found its social aspect that useful. The nearest I now have to a public list of links is my HN favourites.

I use xmarks. It is free and simple.

http://www.xmarks.com

Toby [1] - the only actual bookmarks I have are for the bookmarks toolbar quick links. Anything that I need to save for later use goes in Toby.

[1] https://www.gettoby.com/

For things that really interest me, I print out the sites as a PDF and store them locally. That bookmark can't rot, it's (moderately) searchable, and you can reference it offline.

It's an OK solution at best, but it's the best for references I really want to keep that I've found.