Ask HN: Why haven't bookmarks been re-invented?

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  • extension-save-to-pocket

    Save to Pocket is a browser extension that is used to save pages to a connected Pocket account

  • for bookmarking articles, you have https://getpocket.com/ and https://www.instapaper.com/

    "Social bookmarking" started with deli.co.us and has largely been subsumed by reddit.

    Beyond some level of complexity, Evernote, Obsidian, Notion, etc become bookmarking tools

    ...but the ultimate place to find the bookmark managers are in the Chrome and Firefox extension stores:

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/category...

    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/bookmark?_category...

    There doesn't seem to be any money at all in this space, and any really groundbreaking innovation will be folded in by the browser vendors, so I don't expect there to be much more thwn what's already here.

  • Shiori

    Simple bookmark manager built with Go

  • Shiori is a self-hosted bookmark manager that uses tags and it's what I use now. https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori

    I've been strongly preferring methods that let me tag items and have a good search - either in addition to or instead of putting them in a folder. If I don't like the "taxonomy" I can just add more tags, instead of constantly trying to figure out the one folder where everything should go.

    I can share by creating an additional visitor user, or use the import/export commands. I hope those get built into the UI sometime, but I rarely share more than a single bookmark at a time.

    It is an extra step to copy/paste links into Shiori versus browser built-in features, but I prefer not to trust or rely on browsers for my bookmarks unless at work. Seems like everyone wants sync those to accounts without my explicit consent.

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  • ampie

    Social navigator for the web

  • The closest thing I've seen is https://ampie.app/, which goes in a similar direction. I bounced off of it (too cluttered, privacy concerns w browser extensions), but it has a lot of the pieces there.

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