Using linkding for bookmarks
I saw everyone hopping on the linkding train for keeping bookmarks and figured there must be something there. It turns out, there is! I’m using a PikaPods trial to host it and have a couple more months left using their $5 credit. My list is at: https://bookmarks.twelvety.net/bookmarks/shared
Before that, I used Bear because it was so trivially easy to add things to it from a Shortcut. Instead of “Markdown notes you’ll love”, Bear became a place to hoard links to websites, apps, and services that “might be useful someday”. TiddlyWiki used to serve the same function, and it also became unwieldy, although less so than Bear because there’s no Shortcut to make a tiddler. You have to put in an ounce of effort. But no matter how hard or easy it is, there’s no reason to pollute otherwise useful notes and tiddlers with ephemeral URLs you’re never going to need again. Get that shit out of your working/thinking area and into a tool that’s better at storing and sharing it. Pick out the best stuff and point people to it only after it sticks with you.