Hey HN, this is just a super simple browser extension that I put together in a few hours to fix the annoying issue of bookmarks becoming outdated (e.g. the bookmarked page being deleted or removed). Just run the extension every once in a while to update the favicons and move dead sites into a trash folder (where you can then decide whether you want to keep or delete them).<p>Thanks to hrez for the suggestion in this thread: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29796099" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29796099</a><p>--<p>Repo: <a href="https://github.com/samueldobbie/remarkable-extension" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/samueldobbie/remarkable-extension</a><p>Chrome Store: <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/remarkable/mjmbcbgnjacnhjpoikgilmocjlfmcogp" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/remarkable/mjmbcbg...</a>
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The cost of a dead bookmark hanging around is virtually zero and nowhere near the overhead (and small but non-zero risk) of another extension.<p>Sometimes there is value in knowing that a site has gone under, versus you not being able to remember the URL.<p>One can fetch dead URLs via Wayback machine.<p>The chances of a site (or several) temporarily being unreachable out of all my bookmarks is very much non-zero and I could see this plugin trimming bookmarks unnecessarily.
I have around 40.000 bookmarks that I try to keep organized (as resources for my blogs, future ideas, etc...). I have an hard time keeping track of what's not good anymore.<p>Is your extension a good fit for such a large collection of bookmarks ?<p>(Plus, I'm on firefox, so +1 for a firefox extension)
I started sending myself email. I have a filter which moves them to a dedicated folder. I sometimes post the content of the webpage into the body of the email if I worry the site might go away. I will reply to my messages when I want to save additional notes and related information.
Do yourself a favor and use one of the below tools instead of browser based bookmarks<p>1. LinkAce: Save your bookmarks and organize them with tags and lists. The bookmarked page is gone? No worries. LinkAce automatically links it to archive.org page.<p>2. Shiori: Save bookmarks, archive them or use it like pocket. Like LinkAce you can organize your bookmarks using tags<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.linkace.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkace.org/</a> | <a href="https://github.com/Kovah/LinkAce/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Kovah/LinkAce/</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori</a>
If anyone is looking for a hosted solution for bookmarks, I've been building devmarks.io on the side for the past few months which automatically syncs GitHub stars, Twitter likes, Hacker News favorites, and Pinboard.in bookmarks into one central location. Bookmarks can be added manually. I also retrieve extra metadata for developer-centric sites (think: number of forks and stars from GitHub repos, version numbers from PyPI, publish date from dev.to articles, etc). I automatically keep all of the bookmark data up to date once a day and back up the content in a readable format without ads or annoying pop-ups. I'd love to hear any feedback if you try it out!