Ask HN: What do you do for bookmarking?
Hello, fellas.
What do you guys prefer as a bookmarking tool? Do you use your browser bookmarking? I've been searching for better ways to remember and organize some sites, and I'm unsatisfied with local bookmarking.
I've been trying del.icio.us lately,
I wish to know from you if I you know something else I can try to make my experience better. What do YOU use?
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What's so nice about read it later is that it's quicker than regular bookmarks. I hit alt-w to add current page to the list, alt-w to remove it when I'm done, and that's it.
The regular bookmarks are heavyweight enough that I just wouldn't do that. (And this allows a nice division between regular bookmarks, links I'll be using for years, and RIL bookmarks, which I could get rid of anytime as soon as I finish with them. I could do that with folders, and that's how RIL works behind the scenes, but that's still more heavyweight.)
There are other features, like auto-saving the pages to disk for offline access, or a personal RSS feed, and integration with various Web 2.0 thingies - but that the core functionality is so quick and easy is the greatest part about it.
For pages I use all the time... I have a local HTML file as my home page. It's just a simple set of links organized into a few broad categories. Faster than navigating the browser's bookmarks, for me, though slightly more work to update.
I figure that if I can't remember a useful keyword off the page, it must not've been a site worth remembering.
Searching on "TagSifter" turned up
http://linux.com/archive/feature/145955
which gives me it and two other Firefox extensions to look at further when it's not so late in the evening.
Maybe the combination will get me close to what PowerMarks offered.