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Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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Post by StavrosK » Sat, Jul 17, 2010, 9:10 PM UTC

dabeeeenster wrote: post #44

StavrosK wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, you can search for * and that will give you all the links. There's a small problem with that, currently, so you can search for http instead to achieve the same result.

Ah ok. It might be more useful to have a direct link for this on the search page? Is there a search help page showing advanced search criteria?

The hints have various useful tips, and the FAQ page too. There is no page with the syntax, because we didn't think that users will need anything special, but we will add one!

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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Post by watmough » Sat, Jul 17, 2010, 9:12 PM UTC

You seem have a problem in Safari 4. If I select the bookmarklet text, then drag it to the bookmarks bar, then only the first line was added as a bookmark.

[NOTE: I just noticed there is an actual bookmark as I suggested below. OK.]

I ended up editing the breaks out of the text to get the bookmark to work.

You should probably bury the bookmarklet text in a link, and have the user drag that to the bookmarks bar.

Also, you are not sniffing Safari 4 correctly. I get a message that it is an unrecognized browser!

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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Post by acangiano » Sat, Jul 17, 2010, 9:26 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #27

acangiano wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Oh, I bet you'll like http://historio.us/export/ , but you can still pay us $10/yr if you want!

Perfect.

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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Post by StavrosK » Sat, Jul 17, 2010, 9:28 PM UTC

watmough wrote: post #52

You seem have a problem in Safari 4. If I select the bookmarklet text, then drag it to the bookmarks bar, then only the first line was added as a bookmark. [NOTE: I just noticed there is an actual bookmark as I suggested below. OK.] I ended up editing the breaks out of the text to get the bookmark to work. You should probably bury the bookmarklet text in a link, and have the user drag that to the bookmarks bar. Also,…

Oh, thanks for that, we'll fix it right away!

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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Post by schindyguy » Sat, Jul 17, 2010, 9:33 PM UTC

How about an import feature from google web history. Doesn't it also index the pages you visit for searching? It has a bookmarklet and can crawl all of your web history if you tell it to

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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Post by Entlin » Sat, Jul 17, 2010, 9:35 PM UTC

Great idea. I assume you currently aren't saving embedded resources like audio files or flash movies? It would be even more valuable to a lot of people if you did.

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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Post by woodall » Sat, Jul 17, 2010, 10:01 PM UTC

Where are my bookmarks? I added them, but I can't find an easy way to see them- although I can search through them.

The auto tweet option is cool, but what about a "post to FaceBook" option. Might help you adopt a few more people.

URL shortening service might also be something to look at- historio.us/linkid. You will have to switch some stuff up, like the key- historio.us/user/key_value.

Allow me to also change my email, not just password. Might even think about using OpenID in as well.

Look into a real FireFox addon- Reddit's Socialite would be a good place to start. You can also make a tiny addon to include search in Firefox[2].

Examples in the api documentation would be nice. I keep getting a "3" response when I request a key.

Found the answer to most of these in the FAQ, but I would still like to do it all with the UI[1]- who reads FAQs?

I'm free this summer if you need some help. All I ask for is a recommendation when all is said and done, or not if you are not pleased.

[1] http://historio.us/help/faq/

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/creating_opensearch_plugins...

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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Post by woodall » Sat, Jul 17, 2010, 10:18 PM UTC

watmough wrote: post #52

You seem have a problem in Safari 4. If I select the bookmarklet text, then drag it to the bookmarks bar, then only the first line was added as a bookmark. [NOTE: I just noticed there is an actual bookmark as I suggested below. OK.] I ended up editing the breaks out of the text to get the bookmark to work. You should probably bury the bookmarklet text in a link, and have the user drag that to the bookmarks bar. Also,…

>Also, you are not sniffing Safari 4 correctly. I get a message that it is an unrecognized browser!

I would be careful about this. Sniffing browsers isn't always a good idea. Instead, let users drag their own bookmarklet- that correspond with their browser type- to the toolbar. Or keep sniffing and if you do receive an "unrecognized browser" response fall back to a page of that type.

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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Post by pclark » Sat, Jul 17, 2010, 10:22 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #48

pclark wrote: post #46

it isn't clear what it is. i click a bookmarklet and you save it and i can search from there? i can do that with my history, though? i don't bookmark sites because i don't realize i'll find them valuable till after i've left. I really dislike the top image you have ("in three easy steps") because i sat looking at it wondering if it were an image or a video or a heading, can you make it more obvious it's a slideshow?…

Thank you for your feedback, it is very valuable to us as we're always looking for ways to explain what we do better. The beauty of historious is that you actually find yourself using it a lot, because bookmarking with it is very cheap, just one click with no lists to clean up. The image we do need to change, as it blends in too much. The email confirmation is just for resetting your password, we don't use it for muc…

Why not store everything?

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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Post by joubee » Sat, Jul 17, 2010, 10:27 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #7

lionhearted wrote: post #5

Okay, quick feedback. The first thing I looked for is the answer to "Public or private?" Privacy policy has this: > We will also never share the content of your historified pages with anyone, although we might use the URLs of pages to compile anonymized lists of popular or new links. We will, however, never share any information about which pages you, personally, have historified. I think that might be a mistake. You…

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…

Hi. First of all well done in getting something up and running. I think I'm missing the point here. Whats the difference wwhen compared to delicious? I'm not being rude I'm really interested