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Raindrop: All-in-One Bookmark Manager

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Re: Raindrop: All-in-One Bookmark Manager

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For me collecting bookmarks is part of a larger activity that involves any information I want to gather for use later on. Bookmarks is usually about assembling a reading list or collecting resources on a topic. I used to think the larger activity was note-taking, but I'm realizing that's not really it either. The activity is something very general like "collecting information". Collecting, notes, bookmarks, quotes, transactions, events, equations, etc.

I built a service to solve this problem [0], but I'm not sure how to communicate what it is. Does it collect and organize bookmarks, yes. But I also use it to track of my spending, do my budget, keep a work log, make financial projections, manage tasks, send myself reminders and digests of all the above content.

[0] https://tatatap.com

Re: Raindrop: All-in-One Bookmark Manager

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I used it for a year until maybe 12 months ago. The one thing that made me leave was that everything was juat slow enough to irritate me. Not crazy slow, but not very responsive either. When looking for a bookmark in a folder and each folder takes a couple seconds to load, then your browse becomes tedious. I like that there's a good export function though, being able to be non committal to a tool is a prime feature I…

Have been using raindrop for a couple months. Maybe it varies by collection size or location, but I rarely experience a request that takes more than a sec to complete.

Thats still two orders longer than it should take

Re: Raindrop: All-in-One Bookmark Manager

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have been using raindrop for a couple months. Maybe it varies by collection size or location, but I rarely experience a request that takes more than a sec to complete.

Thats still two orders longer than it should take

It should take 10 milliseconds?

Re: Raindrop: All-in-One Bookmark Manager

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I used it for a year until maybe 12 months ago. The one thing that made me leave was that everything was juat slow enough to irritate me. Not crazy slow, but not very responsive either. When looking for a bookmark in a folder and each folder takes a couple seconds to load, then your browse becomes tedious. I like that there's a good export function though, being able to be non committal to a tool is a prime feature I…

I also stopped because the extension was slow and unusable if you have a lot of tags

Re: Raindrop: All-in-One Bookmark Manager

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Is there a way to export data in some viable format?

There is a Backup feature [1] that saves/exports to a Netscape bookmark format file locally or to Dropbox or Google Drive. I save to Dropbox, and have a cronjob import it into ArchiveBox to create a local backup of sites [2]. 1. https://help.raindrop.io/backups/ 2. https://www.ecliptik.com/bookmarking-with-raindrop/#archivin...

Thank you, my first question was "How do I hook this up to ArchiveBox."

Re: Raindrop: All-in-One Bookmark Manager

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For me collecting bookmarks is part of a larger activity that involves any information I want to gather for use later on. Bookmarks is usually about assembling a reading list or collecting resources on a topic. I used to think the larger activity was note-taking, but I'm realizing that's not really it either. The activity is something very general like "collecting information". Collecting, notes, bookmarks, quotes, t…

This is something approaching a general personal assistant. A few notes:

My immediate worry is that this is not general enough. A tool like this is one I really want to integrate into my other tools - Obsidian, PushOver, etc.

Pricing was an immediate turnoff for me. The demo auto-converts and I don't trust you enough to go for that.

It seems like my data is very locked in. Again, not enough trust here.

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