Great to see 'Refind' made it to HN. I've been using Refind for 2 months and it has completely replaced Pocket in my workflow. Better browser integration, better search, and I really like the social twist of it.
Show HN: Refind – The home for the best links on the web
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Re: Show HN: Refind – The home for the best links on the web
#32Many of the comments here are by first-time users, registered in the last 30 minutes, just to upvote this: - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patbreitenmoser - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nettra - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=babalunda - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=adsons - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=xbertschy - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=MarcoGrue T…
Before HN, Refind had about 900 users (half of them very active). We just announced by email and in the product that we're on HN today.
You don't need to be sceptical about my account :) It has been registered with Hackernews for >1 year. Many YC alumni can confirm me being real and being not Dominik (founder of refind). I know him personally, I have been a happy user of refind and when I learned there was a chance to push it on hackernews I did.
Re: Show HN: Refind – The home for the best links on the web
#33Many of the comments here are by first-time users, registered in the last 30 minutes, just to upvote this: - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patbreitenmoser - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nettra - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=babalunda - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=adsons - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=xbertschy - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=MarcoGrue T…
I did not know that new users could upvote on HN. Interesting!
Re: Show HN: Refind – The home for the best links on the web
#34Re: Show HN: Refind – The home for the best links on the web
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does the filtering work? I have to admit that I have not 'gotten' Refind so far but that might change with some help!
The filtering is basically done by the people you follow. They add what they find interesting and that is a pre-selection.
Most users seems to add all links from their tweets. Maybe that will change!
Re: Show HN: Refind – The home for the best links on the web
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
The filtering is basically done by the people you follow. They add what they find interesting and that is a pre-selection.
Most users seems to add all links from their tweets. Maybe that will change!
Not in my experience. But as I have mentioned in my own top-level comment, I have been fairly diligent about unfollowing the people that produced noise in the stream.
Re: Show HN: Refind – The home for the best links on the web
#37A few questions come to mind: how do they make money out of this? Can I export my data?
No revenue plans at this point. I want to createsomething useful first! Sure you can export your data.
Re: Show HN: Refind – The home for the best links on the web
#38after delicious went down, I moved over to google bookmarks. it works sort of, but I have trouble searching for my older links. Do you support importing an xml file from google bookmarks?
I tried pocket for saving links, but it reformatted articles with code in a way I could not use.
Re: Show HN: Refind – The home for the best links on the web
#39I've used a number of similar services; delicious, spurl and now diigo.
I've been very happy with diigo for a long time, but I feel like I'm a bit of an outlier on the service. Most users are in the education sphere, so using it to discover similar content to what I'm bookmarking isn't as good as what refind seems to surface.
Still, if anyone is looking around for something to use; diigo is worth checking out.
Re: Show HN: Refind – The home for the best links on the web
#40This is interesting, I've signed up and I'll see how it goes. Your Pocket flow seems to ignore the fact that Pocket has an archive though? I suppose the Google search integration is useful, but Google does already have the "you visited (x|many) times [on y]" text (that you override?). It would be good if the "You | Friends" portion of the filter was visible (and usable) even without searching. Maybe right now I don't…
Thanks, OJFord! - Pocket: It does respect 'Archived' – it only suggests links to save to Refind that you've archived on Pocket. - Google: No override! - Filter: When you search on refind.com, you can search in All, Friends, You... - HN links: Great idea! :)
Sorry, what I meant was that with regards to not competing with Pocket (instead 'working with') it seems to me that Refind is a slightly enhanced Pocket archive?
What I meant about the filter was that it would be good to be able to do that when not searching. I want to browse everything that was saved by me only. At the moment, that doesn't seem to be possible.