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0 pointsovercast6y ago0 comments

That was a response to them having an issue with losing bookmarks. Are bookmarks in general now a negative onus?

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As search engines have gotten better over the years, I find my use of bookmarks is usually write-once read-never.

Part of that is due to the fact that iOS is now my primary consumption platform, and finding bookmarks in a complex structure is much more awkward than it should be.

Part of it is just laziness: trying to manage a complex bookmark folder is more work than I care to do when search engines give me 99% of what I need.

anais96y ago

For what it's worth I had the same problem with folder/hierarchically structured bookmarks, but tag-based bookmarking (like del.icio.us used to provide) meshed very well with me and my workflow so I wrote https://savecrate.com (still a WIP and rough around the edges but functional enough to work for me)

ChikkaChiChi6y ago

I even pay for pinboard and barely use it.

It'd be great if every time I went back to a website, all the pages on the site that I already bookmarked would pop in a sidebar...

lostlogin6y ago

> I find my use of bookmarks is usually write-once read-never

I found this with Instapaper. What was a bookmark and what was a read-later?

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