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Ask HN: How to manage bookmarks?

9 pointsby aaossaalmost 8 years ago
Hi HN,<p>I like to read about technology and different CS topics, so HN is a really useful resource. One of the problems I&#x27;ev found recently is that the amount of bookmarks I have is growing really fast. How do you manage them? I red a couple of &quot;Ask HN&quot; post about it, but I would like to know if now you use some kind of manager, what&#x27;s your organization (folders? by topic or relevance?), etc....<p>To reduce this to a couple of questions:<p>- What&#x27;s your criteria to bookmark a page?<p>- Do you use some kind of tool&#x2F;extensions&#x2F;anything to manage your bookmarks?<p>- How do you sync your bookmarks between devices&#x2F;navigators?<p>Thanks HN!

9 comments

pwasonalmost 8 years ago
You mean the 22 years of bookmarks I&#x27;ve collected on at least 30 computers? I usually ignore them and just search for what I want to find, again.
rwieruchalmost 8 years ago
1. Everything that I potentially want to read later, be it on the train or waiting for the bus<p>2. Pocket [0], it comes with an extension too<p>3. Pocket<p>- [0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getpocket.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getpocket.com</a>
ahazred8taalmost 8 years ago
On my bookmarks toolbar I have a bookmark folder named &#x27;y&#x27;, under which there are a lot of dated folders, the latest of which is &#x27;17C&#x27;. Anything I bookmark in the next three months goes there, and in October I make &#x27;17D&#x27;.<p>If I use a bookmark often enough, it gets moved or copied out of the original folder, and put in a more relevant category folder. These are located under &#x27;ref&#x27; or &#x27;util&#x27; on the bookmarks toolbar.
richsaundersalmost 8 years ago
I make folders with topics and some folders inside them, for example: Design &gt; Tools, Programming &gt; Reads, etc. I name them as short as possible, and no more than one folder inside. Also, I use Pocket. But Pocket doesn&#x27;t work for me when it comes for saving bookmarks, because when I save too much, it&#x27;s painful to see that I have too much to read.
tmalyalmost 8 years ago
I use to use delicious, when they were getting shutdown, I switched to google bookmarks. Its all there, but hard to get at. I occasionally download the entire xml and save it.<p>I had some ideas about making something to help me, but its more of a vitamin and not a painkiller.
NSAIDalmost 8 years ago
Liberally tagging bookmarks with <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pinboard.in&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pinboard.in&#x2F;</a> and going through the list once a year to prune
the_arunalmost 8 years ago
I usually email the link to myself in GMail with related tags. As you know, Gmail is great with search!
zaphirplanealmost 8 years ago
6 comments me thinks it means people have mostly moved on from bookmarks as an important tool
x009almost 8 years ago
I email links to myself.