I have is finding an article again at a later time. Even if one remembers the item or list number at the time of viewing (which I don't unless I take special note) that number will change almost immediately
There is a button below every post labelled ‘favourite’, once you’ve marked a post as favourite you can access the list of such bookmarked posts under your profile settings called favourited posts
Then there's the problem of remembering the story's title so one can search for it.
> There's also a similar problem with comments.
There’s tool at https://hn.algolia.com to help you search for posts via both title and comments
There's also a similar problem with comments, if I want to revisit a comment I read several days earlier, it's often almost impossible to find—unless I've noted the handle of the poster.
You can quickly search for all comments on hn.algolia.com
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There is a button below every post labelled ‘favourite’, once you’ve marked a post as favourite you can access the list of such bookmarked posts under your profile settings called favourited posts
Here’s a link to your one : https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=hilbert42
There’s tool at https://hn.algolia.com to help you search for posts via both title and comments
You can quickly search for all comments on hn.algolia.com
Its a YC 2014 batch company.
I find it amazing that we both wrote a comment about HN favorite and https://hn.algolia.com within 5 minutes. You're is more complete though.
"There is a button below every post labelled ‘favourite’, once you’ve marked..."
Right, but that presupposes I want to remember or mark it at the time when I first read it which is usually not the case.