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Showerthoughts

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[–] aeharding@lemmy.world 135 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The worst part is bookmarks are sorted by post creation date, not date bookmarked.

So if you bookmark something old, it’s gone in the bookmark chasm.

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

[–] ImpossibilityBox@lemmy.world 45 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This has given me an absolute aneurysm. I saved something to show the wife only for it to not be there when I went looking. I found the post the long way and sure enough it was still saved.

Maube it was a glitch....

Unsave and resave. still can't find it. rinse and repeat.

Eventually found out about the saving order quirk and sure enough all the way at the bottom was the saved post in question.

[–] aeharding@lemmy.world 44 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] jopepa@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

On behalf of the less tech savvy lemurs: you all are awesome.

(I know it’s lemming, but I feel like a fraud here not knowing Linux and coding)

[–] thegreekgeek@midwest.social 4 points 10 months ago

Gaah, that's why?!?

[–] AVengefulAxolotl@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I think categories/topics would be great as well. Maybe a collection for read later, tech, news etc. So i could sort them better.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Boost app is the solution to this problem

[–] aeharding@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'd be curious how boost solved it. It is impossible retrieve saved posts/comments by saved date in the Lemmy API. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3229

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 14 points 10 months ago

Well shit you're right! I just tend to save things in time order anyway, so I hadn't noticed. I just deliberately saved something out of time order, and sure enough it sorted itself lower down in my save list. Good to know. My bad

[–] hangonasecond@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Thank you for reminding me to go back through my saved posts

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] jawa21@startrek.website 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

We have that. It is a mastodon bot. I don't remember what server it is on, but tagging it will set the reminder.

[–] nix@merv.news 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think we do @remindmebot

Or maybe we did seems to be down

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't even know where to view my bookmarked content on Lemmy.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Profile, saved/favorite (I can't recall what it is via browser, but it's something like that).

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

On reddit you could go to reddit.com/saved and would redirect you to the saved page. Lemmy doesn't have that and you have to remember https://lemmy.world/u/(username)?view=Saved

Also fun quirk. If you try to show someone else's saved posts it just shows your own instead.

https://lemmy.world/u/fuckwit_mcbumcrumble?view=Saved

[–] syd@lemy.lol 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Or maybe target user saved same posts as you 🤔

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

They've got some bomb ass-taste then.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Why bother bookmaking then /s

[–] RotatingParts@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That and not being able to be notified when there are new replies to a topic (you are only notified if some repplies to something you wrote.) That means you read something and have to go back to it regularly to see if there are new replies. That doesn't work at all.

[–] palitu@aussie.zone 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I'd like it to be a watch topic, or similar.

that's interesting, but there are no comments yet as it was just posted. I would like to be notified when it starts to get some discussion

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I've saved this for later.

[–] simple@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

Commenting so I don't forget (I will)

[–] Makeshift@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

Wow just calling me out here smh.

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Idk if it's my lemmy client (eternity) or instance (lemmy.sdf.org) but it seems like "saved posts" doesn't work for me :/ so if I ever need to keep one, I open it in my browser and leave the tab open forever (because I will never come back to it).

[–] rufus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hey! Another SDF user in the wild, what’s up!

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 10 months ago

There's dozens of us ;)

I'm just glad federation is back after that scare!

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I open it in my browser and leave the tab open forever (because I will never come back to it).

I do this too, to a degree, but have you tried bookmarking in your browser more? I have and it's been pretty nice for maintaining this habit without having a tab perpetually open (I write as I have like 10+ tabs perpetually open that I swear I'll get back to eventually).

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago

Honestly, I exaggerated for humor. Eventually I do get all my tabs closed, either by reading them (or whatever), or sometimes they don't interest me anymore. My tabs are basically a queue (a stack actually!) of things to do

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

I have like 10+ tabs perpetually open

Those are rookie numbers. I have 10+ windows.

[–] shadowsrayn@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago

I use Eternity as well, but with the instance reddthat.com as such my saved posts work fine. Maybe try the web page for your instance to see if they work there?

[–] Arfman@aussie.zone 5 points 10 months ago

I'm in this post and I hate it

[–] EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Damn I thought I was weird for doing it

And your telling me that's just what people do lmao

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

Unfortunately with a much higher rate of post/comment rot.

[–] zecg@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's why I save everything into my "Note to self" encrypted Signal blob. It's searchable and you can improvise tags by just writing words

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

The bookmark button only exists to be pressed accidentally right