HACKER Q&A
📣 samstave

How do you manage your bookmarks?


What was the name of that app way back in the day for keeping and tracking bookmarks? I can't recall for the life of me...

I would like a better way to manage bookmarks, I currently use a NotesNook pages for "interest links" and a diff note for "professional/tech links"

But its still a pain - what do you use to manage, organize, group and recall/note your bookmarks?

  👤 pmontra Accepted Answer ✓
I save the few most important ones in Firefox's bookmarks bar (usually links to references of the APIs I use most often.) I have a ton of other bookmarks in the bookmarks menu but I don't open it anymore.

I started to share web pages to Telegram's Saved Messages which is synced to every device of mine. Then I search in that conversation. Not very organized but convenient enough. I also don't need an extra account (eg Firefox) or self host (Firefox has a sync server) and it works cross browsers and cross OSes.

I also keep about 100 tabs open on my phone's Firefox. They are a kind of bookmarks storage too :-)

👤 r00t4ccess
I let like 150-200 tabs build up in my browser, bookmark them into the generic Firefox bookmarks folder (mobile and desktop) Then I realize there is too many bookmarks in those folders so I put them into folders based on the topic, then over time I delete them as the pages begin to 404 having never read any of them.
👤 darekkay
I'm using Static Marks, a tool I wrote. I consider the slightly increased effort of adding new bookmarks a feature, so there's a low noise ratio.

https://darekkay.com/static-marks/

👤 ChrisGranger
> What was the name of that app way back in the day for keeping and tracking bookmarks?

del.icio.us

👤 shivenigma
I don't use bookmarks anymore. I have been using pocket (getpocket.com) for 6 years now and it helps a lot in managing, tagging links.