Pinboard's a pretty amazing Delicious alternative. One-time signup fee of $6, but very much worth it. http://pinboard.in/
I created a bookmarking service you can love.
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#12Two suggestions: * Add a private and public option for bookmarks. Then offer two bookmarklets one for private links, the other for public ones. * Accept both username and email address when logging in. Otherwise 1Password users will not be able to login automatically.
Thank you for your feedback, it is much appreciated!
The point of the site is to not have lists of bookmarks, though, so you can add many many sites and then find them easily. I find that, if I have a list, I tend to either try and keep it tidy or, if I don't, I just get frustrated and never look at it. We wanted historious to never show you the extent of your bookmarks, and to just give you the info you want transparently. That's why the notion of "public bookmarks" is hard to apply here...
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#13wow, I was planning on making the exact same thing. I think this will be amazingly useful. Good luck!
Thank you, we hope so too!
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#14Nice work. Signed up. I agree with @thejash - Any chance we can import bookmarks from Delicious etc?
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#15Instapaper is my solution to this problem. When I'm searching for something I just use ctrl-f.
I save the 1.5mb page to my dropbox every once in a while and I'm good to go.
Of course I'm probably not your target audience.
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#16Fast site. What environment are you using? Also, on the page with the instructions I think the instructions should be at the top. People are less concerned with the other stuff.
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#17This looks pretty useful. A few feature requests: - Import from delicious, to help get people started. - An option to automatically add the tags from delicious as part of the text that you search, because many websites do not contain sufficient text to be findable without tags (ex: youtube videos with bad titles, direct links to images/other non-html content, etc)
Thank you for your feedback! To address your points:
- There is currently a feature to import from delicious (go to "historify site"), but it has been temporarily disabled while we make our crawler multithreaded, because the unexpected popularity and people trying to import thousands of links at once made indexing very slow for everyone. It should be up again in the next few days.
- That is a very good idea! I'm not sure if the delicious dump file has them, but it should, I'll add it to our bug tracker, thanks!
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#18Two suggestions: * Add a private and public option for bookmarks. Then offer two bookmarklets one for private links, the other for public ones. * Accept both username and email address when logging in. Otherwise 1Password users will not be able to login automatically.
Thank you for your feedback, it is much appreciated! The point of the site is to not have lists of bookmarks, though, so you can add many many sites and then find them easily. I find that, if I have a list, I tend to either try and keep it tidy or, if I don't, I just get frustrated and never look at it. We wanted historious to never show you the extent of your bookmarks, and to just give you the info you want transpa…
Ok, I like the idea of a private service. It makes sense. However:
* Convince me that this will remain private, forever.
* Assure me that this will remain in business. You can do this in two ways: 1) Charge me $10 a year. 2) Provide an export function from the get go.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
First of all, thanks very much for your feedback! To address your points, there are no plans for your bookmarks to be public, or have an option to show a page with them, either. The nature of the site doesn't lend itself to public bookmarks at all, as there is no list of bookmarks to publicise in the first place. To make it public we would have to add a search box for people to search in your bookmarks, which may or…
> The nature of the site doesn't lend itself to public bookmarks at all, as there is no list of bookmarks to publicise in the first place. Question: Are you building a fun tool for the good of humanity, or do you plan to make money at some point? From everything that I've seen, making a way to publicise a list of bookmarks could help you if you're going the latter route. > It might, however, be a typical case of the…
Your points are very valid. It is also my personal opinion that people say one thing and do another, as far as privacy is concerned. I will put the policy change on the table and we will think about ways to make the service amenable to shared bookmarks, as it would indeed be a good feature.
Currently, a way of sharing that I, personally, have found works pretty well is to enable AutoTweet, which tweets your historified links with a tag. Then you can search for #historified and you see links people all over the world have historified. That is just an aside, however, and we will absolutely look into link sharing.
We don't want to use your links for nefarious purposes or to divulge anything embarrassing, but having a more lax policy that enables sharing is something we do want.
Thank you again for your feedback, it is sincerely appreciated.
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#20Instapaper is my solution to this problem. When I'm searching for something I just use ctrl-f. I save the 1.5mb page to my dropbox every once in a while and I'm good to go. Of course I'm probably not your target audience.
Hmm, that only searches in the title, though, doesn't it?