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I chose to keep everything public on Pinboard, where you can find me as ticci.

If youve been on the Internet for a few years, you may be familiar with Pinboard as the straightforward alternative to Delicious from the days when Delicious used to be a bookmarking service, and that still holds true.

There are compatible apps (Pinboard has an API ), bookmarklets, RSS feeds, and many other tricks and hidden tips that can considerably improve your usage of Pinboard, and Im going to cover those, alongside some personal suggestions, in this post.

It was probably several years ago, before the iPhone and when I was using Firefox and I still hadnt signed up for Delicious.

Ive been using Pinboard since November 21, 2009, and Ive saved over 1000 bookmarks thus far.

With Pinboard, I can save any URL and know that the service will keep it safe in my account and make it available to third-party clients so Ill be able to find it on the Pinboard website on OS X, but also on my iPhone and iPad.

There used to be a time when I would say that I could find any link I had previously discovered thanks to Google search, but due to a combination of age and lower resistance to annoyances, I now believe its easier to bookmark a link in a dedicated service or app rather than let it slowly fade in my memory.

I see Evernote as the service that lets me save webpages with lots of additional annotations and metadata: when I save a link in Evernote, its because its part of a larger research project or because its an annotated screenshot of a webpage with comments, arrows that point at graphics or other images, and more.

I typically save links in Evernote when Im working on a note that will become an article; my links in Evernote are temporary because they will turn into a finished product articles for MacStories, show notes for The Prompt and Directional, or feedback to a developer.

Evernotes interface isnt well suited to a simple presentation of bookmarked URLs the app works better with thumbnails, tags, notes, and notebooks, and using it for a list of bookmarked URLs would only cover a tiny portion of its potential.

Bookmarks can have tags or descriptions and they can be grouped in bundles, but those are extras whose absence wont lessen the underlying Pinboard experience.

I do recommend using tags and descriptions for bookmarks, but youll be fine without them.

To start using Pinboard, theres a one-time fee of 10 at the moment the fee goes up as Pinboard adds more users, which has always been the services peculiar (and intelligent) way to handle scaling and traffic.

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However, by paying an annual fee of 25 youll upgrade your account and unlock Bookmark Archive 2, which saves a full, offline copy of every webpage you bookmark for your personal use.

Bookmark Archive saves a snapshot of a webpage that retains links and other HTML elements, making the stored webpage appear as a live website even though its a downloaded file.

With Bookmark Archive, you also get access to full-text search in your account, which allows you to look for specific text inside webpages when searching on Pinboard.

Over the years, this has proven to be especially useful for websites that tend to disappear from the Internet or smaller blogs that are no longer maintained and expire I have access to some old tutorials and blog posts that Im glad Pinboard saved for me.

In Evernote, I keep my research, notes that contain rich text and images, annotated screenshots, and clipped webpages.

In Pinboard, I keep all the links I need for the future and that I want to access on any device I want.

Ive dabbled in Keyboard Maestro macros and Alfred workflows, but I keep going back to Pinboards bookmarklet as the easiest way to save links to Pinboard on OS X.

You can combine multiple tags for a bookmark, and you can browse bookmarks by tag in your account and view tags that have the most bookmarks.

I save a lot of stuff under python and automation in my account.

It can be selected text from the original webpage or additional comments about the bookmark it doesnt matter.

This setting can be changed on a per-bookmark basis, and theres a Privacy Lock feature that lets you make everything private by default.

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