Ask HN: What is your workflow for saving bookmarks?

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Smart Automatic Bookmarks.

I've been happy using Google's simple bookmarking service: http://google.com/bookmarks

I'm almost at the point where I should probably go bookmark-free. Inevitably, bookmarks start becoming a micromanagement nightmare. The ability of google to find the site I'm thinking about it is almost on-par with my ability to find it hidden in my bookmarks.

I wrote this so I would not have to rely on a third party for bookmarking and so I could have regex search:

https://github.com/mmb/murlsh

I just use Google Chrome and synchronize bookmarks, is all.

I use http://www.minklinks.com/ to email links to friends and to myself. I'm eating my own dogfood, beta should hit before christmas, signups are still available.

I just use Instapaper bookmarklet and search. Don't have the time or patience for tagging.

I've used delicious and xmarks.

I'm going to write my own bookmark plugin that syncs data to my own server the way I like it. I don't care about sharing or viewing other people's bookmarks. I certainly don't feel like paying to organize my bookmarks.

I know it's probably not a popular option, but I use the bookmark syncing features of MobileMe. Always backed up, always in sync with my phone. Works great.

I often email urls to myself.

Delicious :( and low tech options like browser bookmarks, leaving tabs open or emailing links to myself.

Depending on the type of bookmark, I use a combination of Read It Later and leander https://github.com/rudle/leander .

Shameless self-promotion: leander provides full text search on webpages from the command line. There is also an (experimental) sinatra web frontend/API.

I use chrome to sync bookmarks between machines.

I have a bookmarks bar where the bookmarks have no names. They are represented by their favicons. Then, I have 3 bookmark folders on my bookmarks bar. Currently they are "!" "11" and "12"

"!" is for bookmarks I keep long-term. "11" is for bookmarks created in november. "12" is for bookmarks created in december.

I'm pretty loose about bookmarking. If it's something I might want to bookmark, I just bookmark it to the current month's folder. Then, when the month is up (Jan 1), I will clean out the "11" folder, moving stuff I really want to keep to "!". Few things make it to "!". Then, I delete "11". Afterward, I will do a first wave of deletions on "12", keeping stuff I still find interesting. Then I'll create the "1" folder for January and start again.

I use instapaper with Firefox addon , and it is working perfectly for both my desktop and mobile environment. I think people should migrate and distance thenselves from dissarrayed companies. Yahoo is that kind of company and Google can also User can turn that direction. Future are emerging companies like Instapaper or ReadItLater, which are present both mobile and on desktops. I’d recommend tool for import of http://bit.ly/delicious2instapaper

1. Anything I plan to read later goes into Instapaper using the Instapaper bookmarklet.

2. Anything that I want to watch or return to later gets thrown into a "Read" or "Watch" bookmark folder I have which I clear out occasionally. For example, I have a few Ruby and Git guides that I refer to. Even if I have it bookmarked here I'll sometimes just Google for the link.

I store all of my bookmars in evernote. The chrome and firefox extensions are pretty solid, and make bookmarking very easy.

Worried back in the day about the precisely this event, I store my bookmarks in my own "service" - the UI being minimalist since I like it that way.

http://twagr.com/adduser.lua - but, a warning, it's just running on chewing gum and matches, so be gentle :-)

I use Evernote because it's easy to tag/organize/reorganize stuff and search is fast (desktop client). Plus it automatically syncs.

Bookmarking client side for me is > web based because of speed.

I use Opera which allows synchronizing bookmarks between computers.

I use my To-Do List on my iGoogle homepage to store links (normally short term for later blogging/sharing). Every few weeks I'll go through them and clear them out.

Although I don't do it (maybe I'll start now), setting up a WordPress blog and using the Press This functionality is a pretty nice way to do it.

my flow:

- browse

- if it catches my eye, don't read it all and just send to instapaper

- while reading the page in instapaper, if it's worth bookmarking, i move it to a folder called "sendToPinboard"

- later on i go thru the "sendToPinboard" folder and bookmark and tag the pages individually in pinboard

yes, i know it needs streamlining. it's the best there is for me right now.

NEED: pdf support, other media support, various media archiving

Chrome shares your links to all your computers via a feature in the browser.

Xmarks (now owned by LastPass) - cross-browser & cross-platform sync.

i just hit cmd-d and then return. in the future it will be available for address bar url completion.

the most frequently used sites i drag onto bookmarks bar. or just leave open in a tab.

was del.icio.us, with a script that pulled a backup down nightly.

Most likely I'll jump to pinboard.in