HACKER Q&A
📣 thrwaway69

How do you manage your bookmarks and notes?


After reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21840140 I was looking for tools to organize my links and archive them for future but I couldn't find anything that fullfiled every requirement I had in mind. Is there anything that will allow me to -

1. Put a bookmark list page on my website on a subdomain or embed it.

2. Access control and management with multiple members or family.

3. Detach myself from it anytime I want with a local offline app to browse them later on. (I hate subscriptions)

Bonus - open source, privacy oriented.

Things I did check out - pinboard, umark, pocket, evernote, notion etc.

Maybe my requirements are common or obscure so I also made a survey (plug) - https://forms.gle/WcgWKR95M5fgxsW97

  👤 tony Accepted Answer ✓
Google Chrome Bookmark Manager.

I've also tried:

- Pinboard (favorite)

- Pocket

- Raindrop

Have a lot of bookmarks already and value to your time? You are better off going into Bookmark Manager on Firefox or Chrome/Chromium and organizing there.

I learned that the hard way - none of the bookmark places are good at bulk organizing tagging unfortunately! So if you're getting into a dedicated bookmark service, assume upfront time organizing what you have currently.

Unfortunately - why I ultimately burnt out is none of them - to my knowledge - sync back into chrome bookmarks so I get them in the bar. And they don't integrate / sync with my bookmarks in Chrome automatically. These services end up getting bolted on and treated as second class to the browser's bookmark manager. So they're not bookmarks anymore.

👤 darekkay
Static Marks [1], a tool I have written, fulfills at least 1 and 3 (and the OSS bonus). 2 could be achieved with HTTP Auth. But currently the tool is rather meant for techies, i.e., all bookmarks are maintained in YAML files and you have to setup the pipeline yourself. For example, I handle my private bookmarks in git and update the web app on every push on my server. The access is handled with HTTP Auth. It works similar for my team's bookmarks.

[1] https://darekkay.com/static-marks/

👤 karlicoss
I've written browser extension (https://github.com/karlicoss/grasp), that allows me to create bookmarks straight into org-mode. Then I can manage them in emacs alongside other org-mode notes.
👤 roleone
raindrop.io is kinda great. gettoby.com as well.
👤 willcate
Poorly!