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Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by sundarurfriend on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:36AM (#11676249)
I used to send myself links from one Gmail account to another via chat, but nowadays I mostly just open the link in desktop/mobile Firefox tab, and then later use the 'Show Synced Tabs' feature to open it in the other device.
Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by asteadman on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:49AM (#11676375)
For quick desktop->mobile I banged out this bookmarklet to gen a qr code. Caveats: this was a quick hack and probably doesn't work on everything. super long urls could be a problem.

  javascript:(function(){if(document.getElementById){var x=document.body;var o=document.createElement('script');if(typeof(o)!='object') o=document.standardCreateElement('script');o.setAttribute('src','https://qrbookmarklet.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/qr.js');o.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');x.appendChild(o);}})();
Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by asteadman on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @02:24PM (#11677855)
OOPS. looks like i did not create that one. It is straight from https://code.google.com/archive/p/qrbookmarklet/. I apologize. honest mistake. I've written similar bookmarklets in the past and assumed this one was one of mine.
Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by sheraz on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @04:58PM (#11679212)
Gonna throw my own hat into the ring here and suggest Curabase [1]. This is my project which enjoyed some facetime here on HN earlier this week.

I also have a simple chrome extension which loads your links in a new tab [2]

[1] - https://www.curabase.com

[2] - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/curabase-replace-c...

Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by ivanpashenko on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @05:37PM (#11679539)
And how is it going? Do people use it?
Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by sheraz on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @06:41PM (#11679964)
It is going well! (At least, I'm quite happy).

Between HN and Product Hunt on the same day we took in about 8,000 unique visitors, which resulted in over 350 signups.

Big drop-off since that early traffic spike, but is look like 40% of my traffic is still returning users. So that is interesting...

That traffic spike exposed a few big bugs which we closed this week, and now I'm figuring out next steps (marketing automation, more user acquisition, increasing sharing/virality).

Also, the more users I talk to the more I understand their use cases.

All in all, I'm loving it despite juggling this and my day job :-)

Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by meekins on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:09AM (#11676018)
No. I use pinboard.in for this in addition to long-term bookmarking.
Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by Nadya on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @06:43PM (#11679977)
All the damned time. Now if only I could find a Pushbullet replacement that is more like Pushbullet v1.x without all the damned bloat.

I mostly use it to send things to my phone or to my desktop more easily than spamming my email. Two click sharing between my devices was a godsend.

Certain contexts make better reading. Reading long comment chains on my phone can be annoying. It's why I have a monitor in portrait mode: to make long-form articles easier to read.

I usually browse on my phone and send anything I'm actually interested in reading to my desktop. I'll send things from my desktop to my phone if I'm going to be travelling or want to show someone something later (eg: when we meet up for dinner I can show them on my phone)

Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by cweiss on Thursday May 12, 2016 @11:03AM (#11683879)
If it's something to read - it goes to Pocket. If it's something to do, it goes to ToDoist. Sadly, both are overflowing with things to read and do that I'll likely never get around to.
Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by 0x54MUR41 on Friday May 13, 2016 @12:33PM (#11691365)
Yes, I do. I mostly bookmark a site using EverNote. There is an extension called EverNote webclipper that made easily to bookmark any sites.
Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by tonyonodi on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @08:48PM (#11680557)
I made Sayable[1] to solve this problem for myself. It did moderately well on prodcuthunt and /r/internetisbeautiful a couple of months ago (bombed on HN though!).

The main selling point is that you can send links between devices with no need to sign into anything. This was important to me since I'm not a fan of signing into personal accounts on work computers.

[1] https://sayable.co/

Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by WaltPurvis on Thursday May 12, 2016 @10:26AM (#11683598)
I email links to myself, and cc them to Evernote, several times per day. Usually this is because I'm on my phone and I want to read the link later on my desktop or just save it for reference.

It's kind of a hassle, and I probably only follow up on about one out of every ten links I send to myself, so I should probably just stop. (But I won't.)

Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by BorisMelnik on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @04:14PM (#11678850)
I use Google Keep...been really liking it these days. It also has a great Android App / webapp / Chrome extension
Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by ChrisGranger on Friday May 13, 2016 @09:07AM (#11690156)
I used to use http://leash.co/ for this occasionally. I also use Google Keep. But since I check my email pretty regularly, sending something to my own Gmail is what I usually do.
Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by partisan on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:35AM (#11676228)
Use to do this, but it was a headache. I am aware of and considering pinboard.in due to the recent YCF debacle.
Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by ivanpashenko on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @01:32PM (#11677335)
Which YCF debacle you mean?
Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by partisan on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @02:53PM (#11678130)
Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by ivanpashenko on Thursday May 12, 2016 @01:52AM (#11681591)
Got it, thx!
Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by girishso on Sunday May 15, 2016 @03:53AM (#11699962)
I tweet the links and they show up on http://www.tweetd.com/

(I am the developer of Tweetd)

Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by gautamnarula on Thursday May 12, 2016 @03:02PM (#11685877)
The tools I use for this are pocket (if I want the whole link to read for later) or Evernote's web clipper (to extract the relevant part of the page and organize it along with other information on that topic.
Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by colebowl on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @03:12PM (#11678302)
I used to but now use the Papaly Chrome extension. I like that I can create private categorized boards that automagically sync across all my devices.

https://papaly.com/

Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by thecupisblue on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:30AM (#11676195)
I have a private subreddit to keep links.
Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by miguelrochefort on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @01:00PM (#11677038)
I use Pocket and Pushbullet.
Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by gatesphere on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @03:07PM (#11678255)
Pushbullet works for me. I just wish it let me choose which instance of Chrome on which machine to push to, rather than all of them.
Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by kalagan on Thursday May 12, 2016 @01:46AM (#11681561)
I use a facebook conversion with a second facebook account that I created for testing purposes.
Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by degif on Thursday May 12, 2016 @03:36AM (#11681938)
You can send Facebook messages to yourself – no need for a second account.
Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by sharemywin on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @10:42AM (#11675725)
I built a website to post links to.
Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by ivanpashenko on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @10:43AM (#11675738)
Nice. How does it works?
Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by sharemywin on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @12:02PM (#11676507)
kinda like my own personal HN(lol)...I post links with hash tags in the title. I added a login but you can post anonymously. I just haven't worked on it in ages.
Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by Mendenhall on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:32AM (#11676204)
Yes I have tons. I use Onenote and find it great for such things.
Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by informatimago on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:44AM (#11676317)
Sure, all the time.
Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by ivanpashenko on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @01:34PM (#11677363)
How do you send it, via email?
Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by jiten_bansal on Saturday May 14, 2016 @06:44AM (#11695505)
Pocket and google keep
Re:Ask HN: Do you send links to yourself? by hitsurume on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @02:31PM (#11677908)
tinyurl.com

Created my own shortlinks that I remember when I need to lookup things on other devices.