Ask HN: Where do you save interesting links?

I've tried Pocket, which kinda sucked. I've tried maintaining a .txt on my laptop, but that makes things hard to search, format, and transfer onto my phone. I've even tried making my own app, but there are a bunch of features that I want which I don't want to spent time coding up.

What do you guys use to save links?

u2077 · 4 years ago

Raindrop.io covers everything for me in the free tier. Apps on every platform, extensions, sync. Backups can be made in the free version but they are done manually.

[0] https://raindrop.io/

NylaTheWolf · 4 years ago

I was just about to comment this! I've been using it for about a year at this point after being unsatisfied with Pocket's lack of features, and I absolutely love it.

sandman008 · 4 years ago

Love this app. Thanks for letting me know.

acranox · 4 years ago

https://pinboard.in/

Simple, enough features to sort and search and works on multiple devices.

Leftium · 4 years ago

Prototype of my bookmarking app: https://instant.leftium.com/

You can only search for bookmarks right now. I loaded my bookmarks by converting a Netscape-format bookmarks.html file to JSON.

So you could just use your browser's bookmarking feature and occasionally import them. (I exported my bookmarks from https://www.bkmks.com/)

Source code:

- https://glitch.com/edit/#!/johns-first-react-project

- https://glitch.com/edit/#!/jkm

karmakaze · 4 years ago

How interesting? I leave open tabs for reading lists. They have to maintain their interest level while unread or they get closed.

For more general topics I'll post on HN or subreddit so it's in my profile.

I also save to Firefox bookmarks, but I rarely ever go look at those lists and don't put much effort into saving them. I'll copy my home directory and if I get it in an accessible manner great. Can't recall the last time I searched an old Firefox profile directory for anything.

umtksa · 4 years ago

I'm using a jekyll blog running on github action and github pages here is the writeup about that system https://umtksa.github.io/my-public-bookmarks-service

And here is the actual links page https://umtksa.github.io/links/

vmoore · 4 years ago

In a big text file, with raw URLs. I don't care that I can't view it on mobile. Most of the links come from my mobile device anyway via iCloud sync. I have a browser addon that copies all open tabs and coverts them to raw URLs, so I just open up my bookmarks.html, trim all the cruft from it, and then merge to the main .TXT file that has my 'master list' of URLs.

Venkatesh10 · 4 years ago

I'm going through the same. I have over 3000 bookmarks in my mobile Chrome. I take backup in my email through sync. The same for Reddit, Twitter bookmarks. I'm thinking of using an external tool or notion/word to keep every link in one place. I'm pretty sure I won't visit them again, but it's just for a backup of interesting links.

jrib · 4 years ago

I use firefox bookmarks. I don't organize past one level and most of my bookmarks just end up in the catch-all "read" folder to be honest.

To open bookmarks, I type a "*" in the location bar and then a term I am searching for.

For bookmarks, that I have a tough time finding, I will edit the bookmark and add a tag. This lets me use the tag with the "*" location search.