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Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

49 points by sniuff ↗ HN
Hi,

I have more than 200 bookmarks in my Chrome, I have tried different services to store them online,but every time I changed back to Chrome.

What do you use to store bookmarks?

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eduardordm
I use kippt, it is really nice.
pahko
kippt is awesome!!! thanks for the recommendation
aaronpk
I have a Wordpress install with a couple plugins: http://aaron.pk/bookmarks/

More info: http://aaron.pk/bookmarks/about/

spinchange
Very nice! I've been using Chrome and Xmarks and getting very frustrated with sync conflicts between the two, across multiple machines. I pipe all my social media activity out to a Wordpress installation and have been wanting to do the same for bookmarks. Your implementation looks essentially like what I had in mind.

I notice it only displays bookmarks for this year. Is there an out-of-the-box way to configure this to paginate or display by year (like post archives)?

largesse
I know HN follows the "less is more" philosophy, but one thing I'd really like is the ability to "save" a submission like you can on reddit.

As it is, the only way I can do that is to comment, which probably isn't very good for anybody.

TallboyOne
Kippt is really good for any type of bookmark.

I made my site http://pineapple.io specifically for all my development bookmarks. Since then it's grown to be quite a nice awesome database. I moderate it really heavily for quality, so if you skim all 100 pages I guarantee you will find tons of hidden gems.

citricsquid
Thank you for Pineapple, it's such a wonderful resource, plus the design is really great. Did you design and develop it yourself?
TallboyOne
Yessir! Did the entire thing myself :)

By the way... This may seem crazy but I knew I recognized your name. Someone registered with your same username 6 months ago. Heh. Sometimes my memory is awesome, and other days I can't remember what I did the day before.

http://pineapple.io/profiles/citricsquid

citricsquid
Very impressive, it would be very easy to pass the site off as something that had an entire team of people behind it, everything is so well polished. Do you have any long term plans for it?

That's me! Found it when you posted on reddit (http://redd.it/yh6w3) :D

TallboyOne
I have put my blood sweat and tears into it. Ever since being a kid I've always wanted a site that lots and lots of people use.

My dream is coming true. It's extremely 'dear' to me, and as such I'm continually developing it and trying to make the best possible experience for users. There's a lot of content out there and I wanted a place to only show the GOOD stuff, not the 1000's of pages of crap.

Long term goals are still in the air as far as my plans, but it definitely will be with me for the long term, that's for sure :)

ipedrazas
"While Pineapple doesn't intend to be the next Facebook (whew!),"

What about the new Yahoo!? didn't know it but I'll give it a try :)

nla
I really like pineapple as well!

Did you scratch roll it or build off an existing framework?

Do you have any interest in making it available for reuse?

dan15
It appears to be built using Ruby on Rails.
dan15
I agree with this. A very well-polished site, looks incredibly professional. Great work.
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dkoch
pinboard.in is my new favorite.
jameszol
I use ClipBoard.com almost exclusively although I recently started to use Evernote and it's working out well so far. Both have easy-to-use Chrome extensions that make bookmarking and tagging a breeze.
Cryode
Chrome. I don't bookmark a ton of stuff, just things that might be difficult to find again in the future. Otherwise a minute on Google will usually help me find whatever. I used to be a fan of Delicious but the browser extensions and stuff never worked in a manner I was fond of.

Pretty sure I'll end up building my own mini-app eventually for quickly archiving links, so I tailor it however I want.

mrslave
I want a plugin in syncs somewhere private and not anything akin to del.icio.us. I've had trouble getting Xmarks with private servers working though this may no longer be the case. Any recommendations?
webwanderings
I use tumblr's bookmarklet to grab the links. It is crazy fast to post links/quotes/videos etc on tumblr and I don't care about the tags.
ataleb52
I use zootool, pretty easy and simple.

I'm going to have to try kippt that @eduadordm recommended, it looks sweet.

ToddSmithSalter
I pretty much put everything I want to keep for future reference or reading in Pinboard.in.
account_taken
I use Chrome for all bookmarks I want to share publicly at work, home and etc. For private bookmarks, I use my desktop. (And this is the main reason I moved away from Ubuntu + Unity. Someone had the bright idea of disallowing URL dragging to the desktop.)
F_J_H
Evernote. Although a lot more than a bookmarking tool, once you fit it into your workflow, it is a pretty amazing tool for curating all kinds of things, and you can easily share it across all your devices. I couldn't live without it now.
shoebappa
I find my Evernote has turned into a valuable asset. I used to create browser bookmarks, but without searchable content from the page, or something visual, no matter how much organization, it was often easier to just go back to Google to find the link.

If it's a good tutorial, etc, I copy the relevant part of the page, and paste into a new note. It keeps the formatting well enough, and on Desktop it picks up the Heading and Link on it's own.

A lot of times it will be a web design, or some other smaller UI feature that I like, and will screen clip the design and us Evernote as kind of a visual bookmarks.

shoebappa
I figured I'd share a screenshot of why I find the visual critical and a feature missing from all of the great sounding tools mentioned in this thread. Historious sounds great, but so much of what I remember is what it looked like.

http://imgur.com/S74Ef2u

eevilspock
An important distinction is saving content that you like for future reference versus saving links to sites or pages that you want to revisit to see new content there. Bookmarks or bookmarking services are great for the latter but not the former.

Evernote is great for saving content, retaining its format if you want it and making it searchable, including text in graphics. In addition, you'll still have the content if the webpage or site disappears. It saves the source URL as an added bonus.

Amarandei
I always save my bookmarks in Firefox. To make sure I don't lose them next time I reinstall Windows I use an add-on called FEBE that backs-up all my bookmarks(among other things) into a directory. Next time I have a vanilla Firefox I reinstall FEBE and import all my bookmarks. I really don't need to spend the extra time to go see another website. Another trick I use is to delete the bookmark name and only leave the favicon to showup. It saves space and I'm only one click away from my favorite website.

If you tried other services and returned to Chrome then it seems you're looking for a specific feature and you're not finding it, but you also didn't tell us what it is.

Just use Chrome and try to categorize your bookmarks as best you can.

Here is a simple(and a bit ugly) website that lets you bookmark sites. I don't use it but I recommended it before and some people seemed to like it: http://fav20.ro/

citricsquid
http://historio.us -- indexes the contents of pages allowing for search based on page contents, not just domain or title. I have a small selection of bookmarks I use repeatedly in the chrome bar thingy and then use historious (with the chrome extension) for everything else. Saved me a lot of trouble many times when I could only remember a fragment of the page contents I was looking for.
mnicole
Hijacking: I'm looking exclusively for a service that allows for images to be applied to the link the way Snip.it was. I've found [related] visuals (even if it's just a cropped screengrab of the site/blog post) are much quicker to remember/navigate through later than text. Been trying to use Kippt, but it just doesn't do it for me.
jorde
Kippt's creator here. I send you an email about this.
eranation
Same problem, I use chrome bookmarks mainly (due to the sync with my mobile and every other chrome I have) and Pocket. And sometimes also Kippt.

I wonder if there is a service that syncs your Chrome bookmarks (one way, read only) to some nice web UI that allows better searching (e.g. search by folder name, not just bookmark title)

nzealand
1. Export bookmarks to HTML

2. Bookmark the resulting HTML file or upload to someplace online.

3. Use browser find function.

eranation
Nice hack if you didn't have to repeat this each time you update you bookmarks. Just wondering if it was done already so I don't reinvent the wheel.
mgrouchy
Big fan of Pinboard.in
mullr
Same here, since the Great Delicio.us Exodus. The really great thing about pinboard is its twitter integration: if I tweet a link, it gets automatically bookmarked for me with the tag 'twitter'.
geeknik
Thanks for this, just signed up and started importing from Chrome, my Twitter account and RIL. =)
peerst
Same here, since Pinboard is protocol compatible to Del.icio.us its well integrated almost everywhere (also an option in lots of mobile apps). Everywhere else I use just the great boomarklet.

Especially great is their page archiving ... goodbye link rot and you can even download the archives of your bookmarks

abolibibelot
Pinboard it is for me too. And you can't beat Maciej for diligent customer support and sardonic PR.
dan15
+1 for Pinboard - I've been using it since "The great Delicious exodus". I really like it.
maxdr
One more Pinboard user here. Been using it for half a year and love it for its minimal UI, speed, stability and powerful tagging system. 2200+ bookmarks at the moment.

And count in one more fan of Maciej with his sardonic PR. :)

baby
I keep a strict minimum. I use folders as much as I can. I sync them through chrome & firefox (I have different bookmark for each browser). I use multi row toolbar. ( http://i.imgur.com/1UQ915E.png )

Also, so as not to flood my toolbar I "star" some of them in Firefox. It doesn't appear in the list but I can still give them some "tags". For example I've tagged all the hipmunk, matrix, skyscanner, easyjet, adioso... to the words "plane, tickets, travel" etc...

icebraining
Right now I just dump them into Firefox. I'd like to keep archive copies of the pages, but I don't want to use a third-party service for that, and I haven't found anything to my liking.