Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

Re:Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services? by TimC123456 on Thursday June 23, 2022 @12:51PM (#31851813)

I’m using Safari on macOS and iOS as my primary browsers. If I find something worth bookmarking, I add it to Reading List (the keyboard shortcut is muscle memory by now) which gives me a searchable list of offline—readable sites synced across all my devices. I’ve also found the History search really great at quickly allowing me to solve the “what was that ZFS HOWTO was looking at last week?” type of situations.

I, too, am (was?) a long-time paying Pinboard user, but Reading List is just so much less friction. I found myself never going back to look through my Pinboard bookmarks.

Reading List “just works.”

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Re:Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services? by segu on Thursday June 23, 2022 @01:35PM (#31852508)

Exactly, I think friction is critical in this case. Bookmarks and native reading lists definitely have an edge with that. What you say about 'never going back' to bookmarked items is interesting, I've been feeling the same and despite trying many solutions I still have to find a tool that would help me classify, fill missing tags etc. to really organize my knowledge base better. I need something platform independent tho

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Re:Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services? by jxramos on Thursday June 23, 2022 @01:24PM (#31852330)

so what is the reading list feature exactly, I was going to post to AskDifferent what's the deal with that feature and what does it offer precisely. I had stuff showing up in my list but they all got added there accidentally.

Does Safari download a static version of each page and caches it somewhere on disk and indexes it somewhere in the browser for you?

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Re:Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services? by TimC123456 on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:00AM (#31860472)

Yes, pretty much as you expect: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/keep-a-reading-list-s...

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Re:Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services? by fauigerzigerk on Thursday June 23, 2022 @03:30PM (#31854107)

>Reading List “just works.”

Offline reading doesn't always work. On the Mac I have to use the "save offline" menu. On iOS I haven't been able to find out when or why it does or doesn't work offline.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services? by TimC123456 on Friday June 24, 2022 @07:33AM (#31860264)

While it’s not on by default, there’s a Safari preference you can enable to save offline automatically: Safari > Preferences, click Advanced, then select “Save articles for offline reading automatically.”

(Source: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/keep-a-reading-list-s...)

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Re:Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services? by fauigerzigerk on Monday June 27, 2022 @07:06AM (#31892891)

Thanks, that's good to know. Interestingly, iOS has that setting as well but it doesn't work reliably.

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