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How do you manage bookmarks?

Madza on August 20, 2020

I'm currently using Chrome's default bookmark functionality by sorting resources in folders like 'Articles', 'Designs', 'Tutorials', etc.

How do you manage your bookmarks?
Do you use any external tool/extension for that or are you fine with what the default browser comes with?

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Ryan Collins

There needs to be a search function 😁

I switched to Shaarli this past year. Installation was a piece of cake, I threw it in a subfolder on my personal Wordpress site.

There is a Chrome extension to add bookmarks, and also a cli tool. I use a Shortcut on my iPhone that uses the cli tool to add bookmarks from my phone.

Shaarli uses tags for organization, so it's really easy to organize links as I add them. So far I have 599 1,396 links saved since July 15.

There are two other features I like. One, is that bookmarks can be made public, so you can easily share them with others, and two, RSS feeds can be generated from searches, or tags.

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Sonia

Currently, I use chrome plugin "save to notion" more than bookmarks.
Notions' table function can let me mark the date I added. Also, I can read it offline.

The bookmarks are used as shortcut for work. e.g. gcp_gke, gcp_monitoring, gcp_storage.

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Nicolás Omar González Passerino

Mostly Chrome's folders to separate the main sections (news, toolbox, projects, videos)
Since last year i started to use feedly to have a better orgnization of several news feeds (it has a good ios app)

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Dave Lynam • Edited

Check out Bookmark OS. It uses Mac/Windows inspired UI to give you a customizable GUI for organizing your bookmarks. 🤙

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Yip

I use raindrop.io only because of the ability to use multiple tags per bookmark. If Chrome had that feature by default then I’d have little reason to use anything else.

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Hannah Gooding

I also use the raindrop.io Chrome extension, I love that you can easily change the icons of all the folders.

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ItsASine (Kayla)

Things go into Chrome Bookmarks or Pocket and never get looked at ever again. I also have a set up where things saved on Reddit go to Pocket, too. And a bazillion Dev.to bookmarks.

My recent vacation was going to be spent actually reading the saved stuff. I ended up playing Bug Fables and watching Good Eats instead haha

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Mike Snyder

how did you get the reddit saves to go to pocket? ifttt.com?

i've used Reddit Manager to go through what I've saved, which is too many things,
redditmanager.com/

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ItsASine (Kayla)

Yep, it's an IFTTT recipe! Most of my random x automatically saves to Pocket ends up being IFTTT. Reddit, Medium, probably more stuff I forgot I turned on...

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Mike Snyder

I will def check it out. Thanks!

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Ferdinand Mütsch

Wow, it's so cool to see how many great bookmark managers are out there! I'm using Firefox as my primary browser and also have sync turned on. However, I still prefer my bookmarks outside the browser and being accessible from anywhere. Also, I like to keep my data on my own server.

That's why I developed Anchr as an open source, hobby project and I'm still happy with it. Just recently I also created a dedicated Android app for it.

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andriy.nikiforov

I recommend using Toby, a good solution for storing bookmarks. It has more functionality for management.

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CatalinRadoi • Edited

I add zounds of bookmarks and never read any of them.

Then, when it gets too big, I change browsers or delete them all.
That's how I roll.

Also, I use emojis in the bookmark bar folder's name. imgur.com/bN9SCXt

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Eelco Verbrugge

I use share.link to organize my bookmarks cross devices

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Patrick Tingen • Edited

I started out with del.icio.us/ but (not sure) I believe it somehow transformed to Pocket, which I still use. Or I might be mistaken and they have been separate products all the time and at one point I switched.

Anyway, still using app.getpocket.com/ for things I want to read later. You can search and use multiple tags. Bookmarks I use often end up in Edge and get synchronized to mobile and my other pc

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Benito van der Zander

I write this comment to bookmark this thread

I lack a good bookmark tool.

At most I use Firefox default bookmarks

I used to have a Firefox addon that would sync all the bookmarks to del.icio.us, but that stopped suddenly working. The addon would also tweet all bookmarks, which seems to have given my old account a soft shadowban, since all the tweets disappeared from the search

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Manyong'oments

Firefox user here. Everything is is a folder and i also save them in a spreadsheet. Current bookmark folders:

  • Blockstack
  • Dapps
  • Figma
  • AI
  • Music
  • 3D
  • Neuroscience
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Eduardo Reveles

I've been using Pinboard for several years, pretty happy so far.

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Mike Snyder

me too. i used the Pinkt app on Anroid so I can share links from my web browser to pinboard easily.

play.google.com/store/apps/details...

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Tam HN

I use are.na/

It gives you a visual preview of the bookmark too.

Highly recommend it

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Manyong'oments

Thanks mate!

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fabian9799

I use raindrop for all my bookmarks. I already have more then 300 saved and its very easy to organize it there

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Cheuk Ting Ho 🐍

Keep them open in tabs... aka dis-organized...😓 Occasionally I will put them in Pocket (a 3rd party extension) if I really found them useful.

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KarthikNayak

I use pocket.io to keep my bookmarks

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Iceman44

I have been using pocket for as long as I can remember. The ability to tag stuff really helps.

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Guy Peleg

drop.io. does the work perfectly

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Pol Monroig Company

I usually used my browsers default bookmark system. Although recently I started using Pocket which seems more complete.

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Andrew Baisden

Currently using nothing other than a notes app for saving links. Used to use Notion clipper and before that Pocket. Might consider going back to Pocket or using raindrop.io which seems to look cool.

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Kristian Erik Munk

Chrome add bookmark, mostly on mobile, stop it from working, cant touch, cant browse, error wait or stop browser

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Francisco Quintero 🇨🇴

I used to use Chrome native bookmarks functionality but now I prefer Raindrop.io.

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Simon Needham

I use saved.io. nice and easy to use but can be a bit of a pain if you type the wrong list name

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Ryan Collins

I was paying for saved.io, but the lack of tags or folders in the bookmark export made me nervous, so I switched to Shaarli.

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Jennifer Meade

Try Toby. It's ah-mazing. I recommend it to all of my students during installfest on day 1 of my Software Engineering Immersive program. Students love it.

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Latz

I'm using the bookmark add-on of NextCloud. I can access the bookmarks from anywhere ut I'm still owning them myself.

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Sytone

I recommend using Notion, an awesome tool.

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