Re:A proposal for a better bookmarking service
by lewisjoe on Sunday May 19, 2019 @01:51PM
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Auto-purging with an expiry date is a brilliant idea!
I have this huge repository of bookmarks too, most of which has become too outdated for me to visit again.
Re:A proposal for a better bookmarking service
by kickscondor on Sunday May 19, 2019 @02:07PM
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I can vouch that a personal crawler is useful - if a link goes away, I put it in an archive and update the link to The Wayback Machine. It's also nice to have a timestamp showing when the link was last available and the current "title" tag and meta description for the page (along with the original metadata on the date I linked the page.) It makes it easy to prune or correct broken links.
Another feature that I think is essential is having an effective way to search through my tens of thousands of bookmarks, including an ability to sort them by age. I'm constantly bookmarking articles which are interesting today, but which I'll have no desire to read in a year (e.g., political stories). In fact, it would be nice to be able to give a bookmark an expiration date when I create it, so I won't have to go back and manually purge all these unread bookmarks that I probably will never get around to reading. (Alternatively, there could be a feature that allows me to delete all bookmarks matching a particular hashtag that are older than a certain date.)