{"slug": "pinboard", "name": "Pinboard", "category": "other", "category_name": "Other software", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 6, "warners": 0, "score": 3.945, "rising": -0.31, "first": "2025-11-01", "latest": "2026-08-30", "why": "I switched to using Pinboard [0] for all bookmarking and never looked back.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 6, "neutral": 2, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [2, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I switched to using Pinboard [0] for all bookmarking and never looked back.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "pinboard.in", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://pinboard.in", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Pinboard"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 792054784, "item_id": 49503424, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503424", "by": "alexpotato", "date": "2026-08-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "start tagging each one in www.pinboard.in", "excerpt": "Derek has a great post about \"having a database\": https://sive.rs/dbt (it's a quick read but essentially he suggests having a sort of minimalist CRM for people you know. 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I was just thinking today about how much I value that service.", "context": "", "use_case": "Bookmarking with tags", "switched_from": "", "story": "How to Record and Retrieve Anything You've Ever Had to Look Up Twice"}, {"id": 755475200, "item_id": 47217200, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47217200", "by": "alexpotato", "date": "2026-03-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Shout out to Pinboard for making bookmarking pages and adding notes incredibly easy.", "excerpt": "Shout out to Pinboard for making bookmarking pages and adding notes incredibly easy. They have a bookmarklet that sits on my bookmarks toolbar and if I like a page/tweet/video etc I just hit the \"Add pin\", enter some tags and hit enter. This works so well that I went through and bookmarked and tagged all of my LinkedIn connections as well (inspired by a post from Derek Sivers [1]). 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The real unlocks were: - using the bookmarklet that pops open a small browser window with the page title, suggested tags - doing the same on my iphone - have a couple in browser bookmarks that point to the tags for important things It's so good I even used it to track all of my LinkedIn connections tagged by location, job function etc (inspir", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmarking", "switched_from": "", "story": "A tab hoarder's journey to sanity"}, {"id": 736081232, "item_id": 46005077, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46005077", "by": "jmarchello", "date": "2025-11-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Simple, usable, timeless.", "excerpt": "https://pinboard.in Simple, usable, timeless.", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmarking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What operating systems, apps, etc. had your favorite UI designs?"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["bookmarking", "tagging contacts as bookmarks", "bookmarking with tags", "bookmarking web pages", "bookmark management"], "compared": [{"slug": "linkding", "name": "linkding", "co": 1, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47213819", "title": "How to Record and Retrieve Anything You've Ever Had to Look Up Twice", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46529797", "title": "A tab hoarder's journey to sanity", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433573", "title": "My life was changed by four sentences in four books", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540592", "title": "Pinboard's DNS registration has expired", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45980112", "title": "Ask HN: What operating systems, apps, etc. had your favorite UI designs?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45785367", "title": "item 45785367", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 2}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 792054784, "item_id": 49503424, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503424", "by": "alexpotato", "date": "2026-08-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "start tagging each one in www.pinboard.in", "excerpt": "Derek has a great post about \"having a database\": https://sive.rs/dbt (it's a quick read but essentially he suggests having a sort of minimalist CRM for people you know. 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The thing is, that 90% of my open tabs are either \"I kinda w", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "A tab hoarder's journey to sanity"}, {"id": 744541824, "item_id": 46533864, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46533864", "by": "alexpotato", "date": "2026-01-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I switched to using Pinboard [0] for all bookmarking and never looked back.", "excerpt": "I switched to using Pinboard [0] for all bookmarking and never looked back. The real unlocks were: - using the bookmarklet that pops open a small browser window with the page title, suggested tags - doing the same on my iphone - have a couple in browser bookmarks that point to the tags for important things It's so good I even used it to track all of my LinkedIn connections tagged by location, job function etc (inspir", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmarking", "switched_from": "", "story": "A tab hoarder's journey to sanity"}, {"id": 736081232, "item_id": 46005077, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46005077", "by": "jmarchello", "date": "2025-11-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Simple, usable, timeless.", "excerpt": "https://pinboard.in Simple, usable, timeless.", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmarking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What operating systems, apps, etc. had your favorite UI designs?"}, {"id": 732571632, "item_id": 45785727, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45785727", "by": "slater", "date": "2025-11-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "there's pinboard.in, etc.", "excerpt": "> I use my Hacker News account as a way to bookmark things Maybe don't? Browsers have built-in bookmark managers, there's pinboard.in, etc. :)", "context": "", "use_case": "Bookmark management", "switched_from": "", "story": null}]}