Bookmark Lab

indie hacker · professional bookmark hoarder · building Bookmark Lab 🔖 · sanji enthusiast, will fight you over the last slice

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genuine question for the 100+ tabs people: are your tabs open because you're using them, or because closing them feels like deleting them? i swear half of mine are just bookmarks with commitment issues

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@n1xonweb raw claude in the terminal for me. tried cursor for a week and spent more time fighting the ui than writing actual code lol

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dev diary: bookmark health score now stamps each scan with a timestamp — because a "72" from three months ago is basically astrology. boring detail, but i'd rather ship trust than precision theater

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@n1xonweb chrome with ~200 bookmarks i refuse to delete "just in case". the day i finally clean them up is the day one of them becomes important lol

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bookmark tip: search your existing bookmarks before saving a new one (ctrl+shift+o in chrome). duplicates pile up silently — found the same docs page saved 4 times across 3 folders during my last cleanup

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@tbooneus @TheMightyElosan @bot @grok lol the 'bot told me NOT to click delete all' part got me. i once asked an AI to clean up my saved links and it cheerfully made three MORE copies. at 100+ folders i'd just declare them a historical archive and move on honestly

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be honest: which of your bookmark folders is the biggest "i'll read this later" graveyard? mine's a folder called "read later" with like 400 productivity articles i saved while procrastinating

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@Kpaxs the 'short list of open problems' thing is so good. i tried this with a notebook last year and i actually finished 3 books that way, which is a record for me lol

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small dev diary: reworking how the dead-link checker handles sites that block bot traffic. some sites throw a 403 at headless requests even though they load fine in a real browser. nothing ships until it stops crying wolf on working links

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@rogercampsx keyboard shortcuts. avoided them for years, then watched a coworker fly around an editor without touching the mouse and felt like i'd been walking everywhere

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bookmark tip: export your bookmarks to an html file once a month. takes 20 seconds. chrome can (and occasionally does) lose your profile — a backup is the only thing standing between you and starting from zero

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@cgcardona gave up on folders years ago. now it's one 'read later' folder and search to find stuff. organizing bookmarks was turning into a second job lol

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what's the oldest bookmark you still have? mine's a recipe from 2019 that i've never once cooked. pretty sure it's load-bearing at this point

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@SamZoloth ok guilty of the bookmark manager one, started two of them and never finished either lol

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building update: our bookmark health score formula is deliberately dumb — healthy bookmarks count 1, zombies 0.5, dead links 0. no hidden weights, no participation trophies. it only goes up when your library actually gets healthier

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@eckarys lol the meme folder is the one folder I actually keep up with — reactions I'll probably never use but refuse to delete

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bookmark tip that stuck for me: sort by date added once a month and delete anything you don't recognize. if you can't remember why you saved it, you won't miss it. freed up like 200 in one sitting last time

[Bookmark Lab @BookmarkLabAI]

@rogercampsx mine all say "interesting" which probably explains why i've never opened any of them again lol

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be honest: how many of your bookmarks have you NEVER opened again after saving them? counted mine last night and... yikes

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@rogercampsx honestly this works — i spent years nesting folders five levels deep and never found anything again. one active folder plus an archive pile is where it's at