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Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself?

13 pointsby ivanpashenkoabout 9 years ago
I'm wondering, are there more people like me who is sending links to themself to open those links on other devices or to keep it?

24 comments

sundarurfriendabout 9 years ago
I used to send myself links from one Gmail account to another via chat, but nowadays I mostly just open the link in desktop/mobile Firefox tab, and then later use the 'Show Synced Tabs' feature to open it in the other device.
asteadmanabout 9 years ago
For quick desktop-&gt;mobile I banged out this bookmarklet to gen a qr code. Caveats: this was a quick hack and probably doesn&#x27;t work on everything. super long urls could be a problem.<p><pre><code> javascript:(function(){if(document.getElementById){var x=document.body;var o=document.createElement(&#x27;script&#x27;);if(typeof(o)!=&#x27;object&#x27;) o=document.standardCreateElement(&#x27;script&#x27;);o.setAttribute(&#x27;src&#x27;,&#x27;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qrbookmarklet.googlecode.com&#x2F;svn&#x2F;trunk&#x2F;qr.js&#x27;);o.setAttribute(&#x27;type&#x27;,&#x27;text&#x2F;javascript&#x27;);x.appendChild(o);}})();</code></pre>
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sherazabout 9 years ago
Gonna throw my own hat into the ring here and suggest Curabase [1]. This is my project which enjoyed some facetime here on HN earlier this week.<p>I also have a simple chrome extension which loads your links in a new tab [2]<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.curabase.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.curabase.com</a><p>[2] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;curabase-replace-chromes&#x2F;ifgckhldabjlhpogafialmkihebjfmpd" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;curabase-replace-c...</a>
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meekinsabout 9 years ago
No. I use pinboard.in for this in addition to long-term bookmarking.
Nadyaabout 9 years ago
All the damned time. Now if only I could find a Pushbullet replacement that is more like Pushbullet v1.x without all the damned bloat.<p>I mostly use it to send things to my phone or to my desktop more easily than spamming my email. Two click sharing between my devices was a <i>godsend</i>.<p>Certain contexts make better reading. Reading long comment chains on my phone can be annoying. It&#x27;s why I have a monitor in portrait mode: to make long-form articles easier to read.<p>I usually browse on my phone and send anything I&#x27;m actually interested in reading to my desktop. I&#x27;ll send things from my desktop to my phone if I&#x27;m going to be travelling or want to show someone something later (eg: when we meet up for dinner I can show them on my phone)
cweissabout 9 years ago
If it&#x27;s something to read - it goes to Pocket. If it&#x27;s something to do, it goes to ToDoist. Sadly, both are overflowing with things to read and do that I&#x27;ll likely never get around to.
0x54MUR41about 9 years ago
Yes, I do. I mostly bookmark a site using EverNote. There is an extension called EverNote webclipper that made easily to bookmark any sites.
tonyonodiabout 9 years ago
I made Sayable[1] to solve this problem for myself. It did moderately well on prodcuthunt and &#x2F;r&#x2F;internetisbeautiful a couple of months ago (bombed on HN though!).<p>The main selling point is that you can send links between devices with no need to sign into anything. This was important to me since I&#x27;m not a fan of signing into personal accounts on work computers.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sayable.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sayable.co&#x2F;</a>
WaltPurvisabout 9 years ago
I email links to myself, and cc them to Evernote, several times per day. Usually this is because I&#x27;m on my phone and I want to read the link later on my desktop or just save it for reference.<p>It&#x27;s kind of a hassle, and I probably only follow up on about one out of every ten links I send to myself, so I should probably just stop. (But I won&#x27;t.)
BorisMelnikabout 9 years ago
I use Google Keep...been really liking it these days. It also has a great Android App &#x2F; webapp &#x2F; Chrome extension
ChrisGrangerabout 9 years ago
I used to use <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;leash.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;leash.co&#x2F;</a> for this occasionally. I also use Google Keep. But since I check my email pretty regularly, sending something to my own Gmail is what I usually do.
partisanabout 9 years ago
Use to do this, but it was a headache. I am aware of and considering pinboard.in due to the recent YCF debacle.
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girishsoabout 9 years ago
I tweet the links and they show up on <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tweetd.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tweetd.com&#x2F;</a><p>(I am the developer of Tweetd)
gautamnarulaabout 9 years ago
The tools I use for this are pocket (if I want the whole link to read for later) or Evernote&#x27;s web clipper (to extract the relevant part of the page and organize it along with other information on that topic.
colebowlabout 9 years ago
I used to but now use the Papaly Chrome extension. I like that I can create private categorized boards that automagically sync across all my devices.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;papaly.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;papaly.com&#x2F;</a>
thecupisblueabout 9 years ago
I have a private subreddit to keep links.
miguelrochefortabout 9 years ago
I use Pocket and Pushbullet.
gatesphereabout 9 years ago
Pushbullet works for me. I just wish it let me choose which instance of Chrome on which machine to push to, rather than all of them.
kalaganabout 9 years ago
I use a facebook conversion with a second facebook account that I created for testing purposes.
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sharemywinabout 9 years ago
I built a website to post links to.
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Mendenhallabout 9 years ago
Yes I have tons. I use Onenote and find it great for such things.
informatimagoabout 9 years ago
Sure, all the time.
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jiten_bansalabout 9 years ago
Pocket and google keep
hitsurumeabout 9 years ago
tinyurl.com<p>Created my own shortlinks that I remember when I need to lookup things on other devices.