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Re:Pinboard Turns Eleven by tokamak-teapot on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:58AM (#23792132)
I don't treat bookmarks as a list of sites. I treat them as a list of jumping-off points for any kind of resource whatsoever.

Everything I come across that I might want to be able to find my way back to goes into Pinboard as a bookmark.

The full-text indexing feature means it's my own personal search engine of (most things) I've ever seen. I imported my previous bookmarks, which go back to 1994.

Everything I come across that I will likely want to go back to and digest later goes into Pinboard as a bookmark set to 'unread'.

When I have some time to relax, catch up, and read, I open my list of unread bookmarks and work backwards. Or I skip back a month, or a year, or several. It's amazing what I'm reminded of. Sometimes I decide I don't care any more and delete or just keep links as bookmarks, but more often than not I'll go and read whatever it was I'd left as a gift for future me.

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