For a long time I wanted to figure out a way to organize my "bookmarks" that I have scattered all over the place. I have many many favorited posts on HN, I used Reddit's "save" feature, I add videos to "watch later" or some other playlist in Youtube, etc etc. I thought maybe I could one day unify all this into one place where I can tag them so I know why I bookmarked them (I have definitely sifted through pages of my HN favorites trying to find something). At this point though, I have too much to go through that the task seems daunting. But now that we have AI, I have shifted my mindset to wanting to just feed everything to AI and just have a chat interface where I can ask it for what I want. I feel like that is the future of organization (at least for me it is). Ideally it would be something self-hosted
Your initial want is pretty close to I ended up creating for myself for all things text-based with https://notado.app. I ended up ditching my old stuff in Instapaper, Readwise and Pinboard back in 2020ish because it didn't really fit the data model[1] (content-first rather than link-first) and since then I'm very happy with how everything is archived[2], organized and shareable[3] in Notado.
I still think it's possible to go incredibly far with a good data model, fuzzy search, automated tagging and feed publishing.
What I never understand about the chat interfaces is how I'm supposed to browse? With something like bookmarks, I sometimes go through my old bookmarks and find interesting/useful things I forgot all about. If it's all in AI, behind a chatbot, and I forget about something, how do I know to ask for it?
Readwise has been really good for me to remind myself of highlights I made years ago. I set aside 30 minutes in the morning to go over a few highlights and write. I think that adding a "random bookmark" every day would be a good idea. Most of the time you say "huh, I forgot I had that" and forget it forever. But once in a while it comes at the perfect time. (Or a few days before/after the perfect time would still be nice)
Yes, true. Maybe there's a happy medium where it can auto-tag/organize them for you but also provide the chat interface, giving you the choice to browser or ask. I don't want my links to just be ingested by AI and disappear. I think being able to see them somewhere as well is important.
If I would ever be bothered enough to invest time in getting to know existing or making my own bookmarking system I would just like for it to cache the text from a thing I want to bookmark and offer a nice full text search over the whole archive. I think that, the HN's favorite, Pinboard has something like this.
I would think about going one step further and having a full text search over my whole browsing history with a way to penalize or remove certain hosts. Then I would love to augment my web searches to also include things from my archive.
I feel I would have a much bigger utility out of this in comparison to thing through AI, though I get it could be also beneficial. However AI, I believe, is costlier to run. A nice, properly indexed, full text search probably could run on a phone at least for a private archive.
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For a long time I wanted to figure out a way to organize my "bookmarks" that I have scattered all over the place. I have many many favorited posts on HN, I used Reddit's "save" feature, I add videos to "watch later" or some other playlist in Youtube, etc etc. I thought maybe I could one day unify all this into one place where I can tag them so I know why I bookmarked them (I have definitely sifted through pages of my HN favorites trying to find something). At this point though, I have too much to go through that the task seems daunting. But now that we have AI, I have shifted my mindset to wanting to just feed everything to AI and just have a chat interface where I can ask it for what I want. I feel like that is the future of organization (at least for me it is). Ideally it would be something self-hosted
Your initial want is pretty close to I ended up creating for myself for all things text-based with https://notado.app. I ended up ditching my old stuff in Instapaper, Readwise and Pinboard back in 2020ish because it didn't really fit the data model[1] (content-first rather than link-first) and since then I'm very happy with how everything is archived[2], organized and shareable[3] in Notado.
I still think it's possible to go incredibly far with a good data model, fuzzy search, automated tagging and feed publishing.
[1]: https://lgug2z.com/articles/the-bookmarking-data-model-is-wr...
[2]: https://lgug2z.com/articles/notado-07-2023-update/
[3]: https://lgug2z.com/articles/using-rust-chrome-and-nixos-to-t...
Looks great. What's up with Kullish? Seems to be down
Naturally, the release I push before making a comment here is the one that takes down the website. Back up now :)
What I never understand about the chat interfaces is how I'm supposed to browse? With something like bookmarks, I sometimes go through my old bookmarks and find interesting/useful things I forgot all about. If it's all in AI, behind a chatbot, and I forget about something, how do I know to ask for it?
Readwise has been really good for me to remind myself of highlights I made years ago. I set aside 30 minutes in the morning to go over a few highlights and write. I think that adding a "random bookmark" every day would be a good idea. Most of the time you say "huh, I forgot I had that" and forget it forever. But once in a while it comes at the perfect time. (Or a few days before/after the perfect time would still be nice)
Yes, true. Maybe there's a happy medium where it can auto-tag/organize them for you but also provide the chat interface, giving you the choice to browser or ask. I don't want my links to just be ingested by AI and disappear. I think being able to see them somewhere as well is important.
If I would ever be bothered enough to invest time in getting to know existing or making my own bookmarking system I would just like for it to cache the text from a thing I want to bookmark and offer a nice full text search over the whole archive. I think that, the HN's favorite, Pinboard has something like this.
I would think about going one step further and having a full text search over my whole browsing history with a way to penalize or remove certain hosts. Then I would love to augment my web searches to also include things from my archive.
I feel I would have a much bigger utility out of this in comparison to thing through AI, though I get it could be also beneficial. However AI, I believe, is costlier to run. A nice, properly indexed, full text search probably could run on a phone at least for a private archive.
Same here. I'm saving my pennies to buy a decent machine to work on precisely that.
What tools would you run provided hw was not an issue?
What specs do you think would be needed?
I use linkding for that? Have you tried it? https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding
Does linkding pull in your GitHub stars, Reddit saves etc? That’s what the parent wants to achieve. It seems linkding is just a regular bookmark tool.
Is this possible with tooling available today?