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Re: Show HN: Linkidex – save and sort the URLs you care about

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What it misses for me personally is an ability to search over the pages my links are pointing to. Ideally within some additional radius over the links these pages have. Perhaps, it won't be easy to implement, but it looks like the only way to find a page you've bookmarked a year ago when you vaguely remember what was it about... Even integration with Google Custom Search would do the job here.

To clarify, the suggestion here is to search the contents of a given Link, not just the link's title or url? For example, if I have a webpage "www.linkidex.com/test" which displays a bunch of text, including "HackerNews2022", you need the ability to find this link by searching for `HackerNews2022`, assuming that you haven't named the link `HackerNews2022` or tagged it or categorized it as such? Some of our competitor…

Yes sir, exactly. There's too much hassle in manually categorizing and tagging everything and it still inferior to search. Just like in good ol' days site catalogs were made extinct by search engines development...

It's ok if bookmarked pages change. It's no different from a normal search engine, you just reduce the scope of a search from the whole internet to some private curated collection. Google CSE is good for that, one just need to write an interface to update it with bookmarked links...

Re: Show HN: Linkidex – save and sort the URLs you care about

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post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Making the error reporting of import / export is very high on my todo list. Right now the user just has to wait and doesn't get feedback, which is a bad experience. I see one import failed due to something on my side. I've identified the issue and have a fix, I'll follow up as soon as its deployed. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Yeah that may have been mine, no worries. Thanks!

Thanks for your patience on this! This issue has been fixed.

Re: Show HN: Linkidex – save and sort the URLs you care about

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be great if you could import open tabs. What I really want/need is a tool that helps auto-categorize/group all my open tabs into areas of interest and enables full-text search across all of those pages so that I can context switch back into whatever I was working on at that time. Manually bookmarking and tagging doesn't scale for me.

I don't think a web app can do this, but a browser extension, which is on our roadmap could! Regarding auto-categorize, how would you want that to work? I imagine this could be a machine learning problem, but I wonder if there is a naive solution that solves most of the problem instead of just throwing ML at it? Text search across pages has come up multiple times in this thread. I shall add it to our list of features…

I'm envisioning a number of categories that I can predefine or select as seed. I think Flipboard use to ask for a number of interest areas upon first use. Something like that.

I'm not always in favor of ML but I'd think this would be something ML would excel in.

Re: Show HN: Linkidex – save and sort the URLs you care about

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post #50

Raindrop is my current bookmark workflow, it works on desktop (Mac) and mobile and I believe it has full text search but I don’t use it. https://raindrop.io/

Raindrop is great! Its written by one guy and the polish / quality of his work is top notch. Our roadmap is going to bring us in a different direction than Raindrop, but more details on that later.

Can you elaborate on how you will be better or in what ways you are already better ?

Re: Show HN: Linkidex – save and sort the URLs you care about

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post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Raindrop is great! Its written by one guy and the polish / quality of his work is top notch. Our roadmap is going to bring us in a different direction than Raindrop, but more details on that later.

Can you elaborate on how you will be better or in what ways you are already better ?

I don't want to claim that Linkidex is better than Raindrop. Raindrop and Linkidex will serve different audiences. That said, we aren't quite ready to share our long term roadmap.
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