Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

Honestly, since the first day I switched to Firefox I'm just saving to it's own bookmarks. Whenever I wanna check those websites I just open it either from my desktop or my laptop(s), since it's syncing in between my devices.

I don't know if there's much people using bookmarking tools, but to help you see another perspective, as a person who finds bookmarking tools not necessary I'd say it wouldn't worth your time to vibe code one. Also just for "vibe coding", be really really careful if you're gonna make it a "product" because you'll definitely face rough situations through it.

Yes I still use bookmarks, though it's tempting to have chatgpt5 build me a memex so I can save whole pages and sites and mark them up to save in a journal instead.

I still use traditional browser-based bookmarking, and sync with my Firefox account. I don't see the need to share my bookmarks.

Yes, honestly I still do that! I know it's old school. But it works. easy to use, fast access and free, lool!

Another shot at a bookmark manager is welcome.

The usual story is "I bookmarked 20,000 web pages over 3 years and then I realized I never looked at any of them!"

I built an "image sorter" which used to ingest image galleries using a bookmarklet which would queue the galleries to get crawled with a web crawler, I would then classify and rank the image galleries in an HTMX-based UI. I really do look at the images every day so it is successful in that sense. The web crawler started running into Cloudflare problems so now I save the whole page with the browser and have a Python script harvest the pages out of my Downloads folder.

I use floccus to sync my bookmarks to my nextcloud. Especially on the phone its useful, since accessing my bookmarks in firefox for android is a hassle.

Yes I heavily use bookmarks. I got back into it a few years ago when I quit going to large forums like Reddit and needed a way to remember important URLs I knew I'd want later.

I keep them in an HTML file in git along with all my dot files.

After years of jumping between different platforms and systems I've landed on linkhut [0]. I like that it's social by default and chronological-oriented, with flexible but really basic options for organization (tags and 'read later' flag). It makes it so that bookmarking neat things actually feels like it has a point, even if I don't always organize them in a way I can easily find later.

[0] https://linkhut.org/

Yeah, I bookmark stuff, but just in my browser. No apps or extensions — keeping it simple.

Of course. I bookmark them using bookmarks in my browser. I have about 15k bookmarks now. I also save my session files so I have tabs with history too. For both bookmarks and tab session files I have perl scripts to process/search them.

Yeah, otherwise I'd end up with 9000 tabs. I use firefox and make use of the tagging system there, it's nice.

I use an ever expanding text file, plus bookmarks. The textfile is #1 for me, and can live on various drives.

Self hosting Karakeep[0] for this. I think next step is to carve out time on Sunday morning to go through things and put them in lists of read vs unread.

[0] https://karakeep.app/

Yes, I have a lot of bookmarks. When I bookmark a page, I add some keywords to the bookmark's title so I can easily find it in the future. It's not strictly tagging, I just try thinking of words the future me could use when searching for a particular bookmark.

However, I've never used any bookmarking service. It makes sense if you want to share your bookmarks, but I prefer to keep them private.

I've been using Shaarli[1] for the past 15 years, and I'm very happy with it. The code base is small and stable enough (the official version hasn't got a single update over the past 12 years, even though the author is still using it daily[2]) you can easily tweak it to your tastes.

[1]: https://github.com/sebsauvage/Shaarli

[2]: https://sebsauvage.net/links/

I bookmark things in Firefox. No addons or online services. I only browse the web from a Linux mini-PC that is dedicated to HN. I periodically export them as a date-named json and html file and that gets backed up to a dozen external devices.

I use tabs, and lots of them...

HN itself is a bookmarking tool, BTW

The management and search and annotation options are very weak, but when you submit a link here at HN, you are also making a permanent bookmark that will remain accessible via your account

Not really, I have some bookmarks in my toolbar from decades ago that still see the odd click, but mostly I just rely on history, ie "dev 461" gets me to our JIRA board with my usual filters, "github PROJECT" / "github PROJECT pulls" get me to the project or the pull requests.

In fact I've been using Shortcuts instead of bookmarks lately, as those will open on any Apple device in the default browser for the device, not limited to whatever browser you happened to bookmark them in.

Extensively

Yes. Not interested in putting them in the cloud in the slightest. 99% of what's on my desktop i don't want/need on my phone, work or whatever.

People misusing tabs for bookmarks need to get their head checked. Surely the only way you find anything is in the address bar anyway, an there they are equivalent.

Yes, extensively. Mostly stuff that HN helps me find, that I then curate further for myself, stuff that I know will be helpful for some project later on and can then go back and read through to refresh my memory.

Yes, but I can never find what I'm looking for again because I don't organize them myself and Firefox mobile's bookmark search is bordering on unusable. Sorting by date doesn't seem to work at all and I can't find anything I've bookmarked in the past year.

I want a separate, local-only, bookmark application that saves the bookmark, takes a full snapshot of that page, and lets me grep through all the snapshots for whatever I'm searching for. So many of my bookmarks right now are suffering from link rot, a really cool feature would be to take bookmarks in your browser, and, if dead, search on waybackmachine and snapshot it.

There are plenty of options still out there (raindrop.io, Instapaper, Safari’s reading list, etc). No need to vibe code your own, unless you want to.

For read-it-later type bookmarking, like Pocket, I gave up. I never actually go back to read things later.

For “social” bookmarking, like delicious, I never really understood it, but I think sites like Reddit ended up filling that niche. My mental framework was always an evolution of forums, not bookmarking.

For most things, I can do a search and get to something faster than going to my bookmaker.

I use my standard browser bookmarks for my own little sites and things I go to multiple times every day. Then I have some others tucked away for cool sites that I think would be hard to find again. I then forget these exist and never visit, but when I remember they exist every 18 months or so, I go through them and they’re cool.