It's complex, or like with project management, there seems to be so many different use cases, and also legacy ideas and workflows. For example for some people tags are the most important thing in a bookmarking service (even you when you have a full-text search for everything), and for some they're just annoying.<p>What I think about it, is that bookmarking, most of the time, isn't bookmarking anymore. It used to be that to bookmarked a site like "yahoo.com" to your browser since domains were hard to remember. Now you "bookmark" things, like the OP described, to use the them now or later.<p>Also most of the time you care more about the content (article, image, video) than the url or the site. What I think bookmarking is, is that it's a way to research, use and understand information on the web.<p>Why I collect or bookmarks stuff, is because it's my way to learn and remember. It's like making notes on lectures, so you actually try to pay attention to what it's being said (and sometimes you just want to focus on other things and save things for later.)<p>(we're working on it <a href="https://kippt.com" rel="nofollow">https://kippt.com</a>)
After reading the article, I still dont see what you mean by complex. I saw a wishlist of things that might or might not be related to bookmarking.<p>Storing a URL, how ever, is more complex that you would think. There are no size limit on urls, so every time update your database schema (I know, SO '90), a longer URL will show up.<p>Short story; Ive worked on a bookmark service. One day, the database went all crazy on us, and we didn't know why. The commit logs kept growing, and the service was slow. The system pushed more data than normal, but all user metrics show normal usage. We spent some hours debugging this, until a guy poped by our office and asked "Have you seen google's new favicon?! It looks like a toilet seat!".<p>Then it hit us; We where storing a copy of favicon with each bookmark; suddenly half the bookmarks in our database got updated.. ;)<p>Next time, I'll tell you about that porn site that used the full size images as favicons..
Is there an open-source library for archiving a URL, including all assets (JS, graphics, etc.)?<p>This task is trickier than it initially seems.<p>I'd love to have a local cache of bookmarked URLs.
One-upmanship right in the title, it would have been more accurate to say, "...than <i>I</i> thought."<p>Bookmarking is a productivity aid, and so has the same variations in personal (customer, user) needs as the dozens of todo list apps and websites can attest.
Interestingly I had that exact discussion with some friends yesterday too.<p>I normally divide it up a little different.<p>1. The things I want to save for possible use later.
2. The things I need for something specific but only once.
3. The things that I want to read later.
4. The things that I use now and then or often but can never remember the url for.<p>The last of the four to me is the one most often overlooked and is why I still haven't found a tool I like.<p>Things that fall into that category is.<p>My netbank, internal links, insurance site, things I am a member of, online tools, asset libraries that I use often etc.<p>The best analogy I have been able to come up with so far is a desktop/launchpad for the browser and it might be exactly that way of thinking about bookmarks that will make someone come up with a good enough solution one day.
It isn't difficult at all. You just have to shift your perspective.<p>Now: Keep them in your browser, local to you. Keep the frequently-used ones right in front of you in the bookmark toolbar. For example, I don't rely on Chrome's Apps tab, so I have Gmail in my bookmarks toolbar folder called 1.Launch (1 because I have several others sorted accordingly).<p>Later: Link blog them (on Tumblr or G+ may be). Or you can even keep them local to you using above number 1 perspective.<p>Future: Don't worry about loosing the bookmarks you have already consumed and not going to come back to them anytime soon. Again, if you're link-blogging the content you feel you need to save, than you don't need to worry about future.
Like the author of the article, I also use more than one service for bookmarking - Pocket for Read later articles, Google bookmarks for tagged bookmarks for unspecified future use, and toolbar in Chrome for all other. But I don't agree with the notion that it is overly complex, or that I want to consolidate all this to one service.
Pocket covers nearly all of the requests you posted from HN; cross-device compatible, Pinterest style layout, export to html, search, tagging & sharing. I'm really enjoying it as a private bookmarking service.<p><a href="http://GetPocket.com" rel="nofollow">http://GetPocket.com</a>
Another problem I always had with bookmarking websites was my lists would grow too long and interesting bookmarks would get lost in the mess without pruning them.<p>So I created a website 2 years ago that constantly visits the URL and lets me know whats changing on the website the bookmark is pointing to and emails me the deltas.<p>Not trying to hijack the OP’s thread but if interested , visit diphur.com
I'm using the open-source Zotero for organizing my research. I imagine it would work well as a bookmarking tool.
<a href="http://www.zotero.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.zotero.org/</a>