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Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.

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Re: Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.

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Post by pie »

bwm wrote: post #26
pie wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right - but I am curious about how Stashmarks handles conflict resolution, if it does. I naively assume it simply de-dupes URLs, meaning unexpected things could happen with multiple Chromes that aren't running sync or have updates queued while working offline. Please correct me if I'm wrong. (I also agree with the comment below that it's an edge case for most users, especially Chrome sync users.)

URLs uniquely identify bookmarks, if two chromes have a bookmark with the same URL but different titles/tags, stashmarks will show whichever was synced first.

Right - I'm finding that this behavior (or something related to identification) makes it finnicky to update title/tags, and changes I make in the browser don't always seem to apply, even after resetting the connection.

If I edit a URL, stashmarks doesn't reflect the change in the UI, at least when the original is still pending download. Looks like it's actually changed internally.

Also, I can't delete (or edit) a bookmark in stashmarks that I no longer have saved in my browser. Recreating it and deleting that does nothing, even when logged out and then in.

Hope these critiques are helpful.

Clearly, these are all edge cases, and overall your service is impressive.

Re: Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.

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Post by doubleconfess »

I've been looking for something like this lately, it really fills a need for me!

But you really REALLY need to modify your icon. There are a million bookmarked shaped icons in this world, and for some reason no-one ever incorporates a mark with the bookmark icon so that it can be differentiated. So now on chrome I have 2 bookmark icons that look identical (the other is for 'read it later'), and two other ones that relate to bookmarks but are stars. Great.

Re: Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.

#33

Post by brewerja »

Anyone have this working in Linux? I get the error, "Sorry, we couldn't connect to your browser." I have the extension installed and enabled.

UPDATE: Seems to be working when installed from the Chrome Web Store, rather than the link on the site.

Re: Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.

#34

Post by ericmsimons »

Okay, I know I'm joining the choir here, but THANK YOU. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. This is EXACTLY what I need. I am so sick of the omnibar not being able to find websites I've bookmarked because it can't search the HTML of the website. I don't want to use evernote either, it needs to just work.

Re: Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.

#35

Post by ericmsimons »

Okay, I know I'm joining the choir here, but THANK YOU. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. This is EXACTLY what I need. I am so sick of the omnibar not being able to find websites I've bookmarked because it can't search the HTML of the website. I don't want to use evernote either, it needs to just work.

Re: Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.

#36

Post by idm »

bwm wrote: post #29
idm wrote: post #28

This looks really nice, but I'd like to hear what the account is required for. I'm not happy with the idea of another third-party having a peek inside my bookmarks. Maybe accounts shouldn't be strictly required, but would permit a fuller range of service? At any rate, I've hit a brick wall, because I am hesitant to go any further.

I understand your concern, and to be honest we thought about this a lot when making the product. The reason we upload your bookmarks to our server is so that we can download the html, index it and display excerpts in the timeline. For further information, you can read our privacy policy here: http://stashmarks.com/privacy

Thanks for your reply; I suspected as much. Well, I hope there aren't too many people like myself who will be turned off by the account creation step. However, I'm going to have to sit out this round until a decentralized option is available from you guys. Nice product, all the same!

Re: Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.

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Post by tricolon »

I couldn't find another way to contact you, so here goes. There's an extraneous apostrophe in "This bookmark is pending download, until then it's summary will not be available". In fact, that comma should be a semicolon.

Thank you for creating a service I needed.

Re: Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.

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Post by drewschrauf »

brewerja wrote: post #33

Anyone have this working in Linux? I get the error, "Sorry, we couldn't connect to your browser." I have the extension installed and enabled. UPDATE: Seems to be working when installed from the Chrome Web Store, rather than the link on the site.

I'm on Windows and this fixed the same issue for me.

Re: Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.

#40

Post by nc »

brewerja wrote: post #33

Anyone have this working in Linux? I get the error, "Sorry, we couldn't connect to your browser." I have the extension installed and enabled. UPDATE: Seems to be working when installed from the Chrome Web Store, rather than the link on the site.

Thanks for reporting this, we are looking into it.
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