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End of the Road for Xmarks

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201 points willwagner | 3 comments | 27 Sep 10 23:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.765s | source
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sjs ◴[28 Sep 10 00:28 UTC] No.1734118[source]▶
Chrome killed my use of Xmarks. With a consistent, cross-platform browser that has syncing out-of-the-box I no longer need Xmarks. I mainly use other browsers for testing now.
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mitjak ◴[28 Sep 10 04:16 UTC] No.1734540[source]▶
Ditto here but I can't think of a way to bring those bookmarks over to Safari to sync with the iPhone, aside from using Xmarks. Any ideas?
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1. sjs ◴[28 Sep 10 06:25 UTC] No.1734776[source]▶
Instapaper. I know that's kind of a cop-out but incidentally it (and Google) have killed my use of bookmarks apart from a relatively svelte bookmarks bar. Instapaper is my reading queue, Google is my long-term memory. Bookmarks are more like shortcuts for me now.

The nice thing is that I can "bookmark" any link from any browser that I use, as well as twitter and RSS. And I have them instantly on my iPad, phone, notebook, or any machine with a browser without installing any software or extensions.

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2. mitjak ◴[28 Sep 10 16:50 UTC] No.1736282[source]▶
What do you mean by Google? Google Bookmarks, the Chrome sync? Google Notebook? :)
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3. sjs ◴[29 Sep 10 00:11 UTC] No.1737831[source]▶
Oh, just Google's search. If I want to find something I previously read I Google it now instead of sifting through crufty, old, poorly organized and needlessly hierarchical bookmarks. Tagged bookmarks would help there I guess (like Delicious) but then you have to tag everything...