Ask HN: How many browser bookmarks do you have? What managers do you use for it? Hello. I'm making a browser extension that groups tabs and bookmarks with similar content. And I'm conducting some user research. Could you help with it? |
Ask HN: How many browser bookmarks do you have? What managers do you use for it? Hello. I'm making a browser extension that groups tabs and bookmarks with similar content. And I'm conducting some user research. Could you help with it? |
Text searchable and persistent is far better for static content, though I'll concede this doesn't apply bookmarking interactive material (news, etc.).
Tried to look for managers before but they are selling me features I won’t need irl.
My bookmarks are organized into folders on the bookmark bar, and my browser allows to click a folder (and any subfolders) and “add active page” to it without a dialog.
There’s also a star icon in urlbar that opens a dialog with a title and folder selection. It adds or edits a bookmark and remembers the last folder (“add active page” doesn’t disturb it).
A bookmark can be in two+ folders.
Bookmarks I visit frequently have proper names like “Node FS” or “CSS Flex”.
What I could really use:
- find duplicates
- some 2-panel tree+list editor that allows quicker sorting into specific folders
- bookmarks store a screenshot of a page’s current viewport at the moment of bookmarking
- “thumbnail view” of screenshots in a folder or preview by hovering over a list item
I don’t think I need autogrouping, cause dynamic lists are not good for muscle memory (I locate mans/refs instantly cause they are always there). And for non-memorized hundreds I group them by criteria which a software couldn’t pick without mind reading anyway.
It could be cool to have a bookmarking browser extension that can provide a similar 'digital scrapbook' function.