Re:A proposal for a better bookmarking service
by lewisjoe on Sunday May 19, 2019 @02:07PM
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Your point is completely valid. I wish I have that discipline to go over my bookmarks and read interesting items. Most times, I head over to HN and pick up more items for my reading-list than to go over my bookmarks.
This project should be helpful to people who aren't used to go over bookmarked links periodically unless encouraged to.
Re:A proposal for a better bookmarking service
by kickscondor on Sunday May 19, 2019 @02:33PM
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Absolutely - and I do hope that this project can help you achieve your aim! If you can do that and help others as well - then this will all be _very_ worthwhile. For myself, I feel like I get too caught up in solving my problems technologically, when the problems are human. Curating my links was very repellant at first, but has now become a favorite past time now that I feel some competence. But good luck to you - we are all different, with very different motivations and struggles.
I realize I am portraying the system in a negative light - but I am tired of being surrounded by automated systems, notifications, reminders and such. I wouldn't be surprised if most people would find this system helpful and very useful. I do believe that as we build massive personal information 'stores' that we are going to continue to need new tools and better archival/navigation skills - this might be part of that, I'm just not on board yet.