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Why I'm building Nilai - A simple bookmarking service

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Re: Why I'm building Nilai - A simple bookmarking service

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Post by kijin »

Typo on the front page: "intension" should be "intention". You don't want to confuse all those philosophy majors out there :)

I'm looking at your screenshot [1] right now, and one question comes to mind: How are users going to organize their bookmarks on Nilai? The drop-down design shown in the screenshot reminds me of Gmail's labels, which will turn into a mess once you go beyond a certain number of tags/categories. Besides, everyone else uses the same organization system and similar features. Why should I try Nilai when I've already paid a one-time fee to Pinboard?

Well, here's one possible reason. Just the other day, I was trying to import my browser bookmarks into Pinboard, but aborted when I realized that Pinboard would not preserve the elaborate folder hierarchy (270+ folders) that I'd created over the years to organize my 5600+ bookmarks, many of which I never tagged. If there's any non-social bookmarking service that allows me to use both folders/subfolders and tags/labels to organize my bookmarks, I'll sign up in an instant. This isn't about fancy features, it's about basic paradigms. So there's a little feature request!

[1] http://nilai.co/assets/images/screenshot_desktop.jpg

Re: Why I'm building Nilai - A simple bookmarking service

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Post by cdevroe »

mgkimsal wrote: post #10
recroad wrote: post #8

I like that you have aspirations here, but can the developer please provide some points about how this service will be different than the rest in terms of features.

does it necessarily need to be different?

Exactly. I'm sure it will be simply because the possibilities are endless. But that isn't my goal.

Re: Why I'm building Nilai - A simple bookmarking service

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Post by cdevroe »

kijin wrote: post #11

Typo on the front page: "intension" should be "intention". You don't want to confuse all those philosophy majors out there :) I'm looking at your screenshot [1] right now, and one question comes to mind: How are users going to organize their bookmarks on Nilai? The drop-down design shown in the screenshot reminds me of Gmail's labels, which will turn into a mess once you go beyond a certain number of tags/categories.…

Good question. I can honestly tell you that given your needs, Nilai may never work well for you. I hope you find the exact service you're looking for though.

Re: Why I'm building Nilai - A simple bookmarking service

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Post by kijin »

cdevroe wrote: post #13
kijin wrote: post #11

Typo on the front page: "intension" should be "intention". You don't want to confuse all those philosophy majors out there :) I'm looking at your screenshot [1] right now, and one question comes to mind: How are users going to organize their bookmarks on Nilai? The drop-down design shown in the screenshot reminds me of Gmail's labels, which will turn into a mess once you go beyond a certain number of tags/categories.…

Good question. I can honestly tell you that given your needs, Nilai may never work well for you. I hope you find the exact service you're looking for though.

Thanks. I was hoping that a service that claims it will be around in 10 years might also come with features that make it easy for people to import and manage bookmarks from 10 years ago. But it seems that your needs are different.

Re: Why I'm building Nilai - A simple bookmarking service

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Post by mitechie »

kijin wrote: post #11

Typo on the front page: "intension" should be "intention". You don't want to confuse all those philosophy majors out there :) I'm looking at your screenshot [1] right now, and one question comes to mind: How are users going to organize their bookmarks on Nilai? The drop-down design shown in the screenshot reminds me of Gmail's labels, which will turn into a mess once you go beyond a certain number of tags/categories.…

What browser are you using that you've got your bookmarks setup in?

Re: Why I'm building Nilai - A simple bookmarking service

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Post by recroad »

mgkimsal wrote: post #10
recroad wrote: post #8

I like that you have aspirations here, but can the developer please provide some points about how this service will be different than the rest in terms of features.

does it necessarily need to be different?

For me, yes. It either needs to have features existing services don't have, or simply execute better than what's out there now.

Re: Why I'm building Nilai - A simple bookmarking service

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Post by recroad »

cdevroe wrote: post #9
recroad wrote: post #8

I like that you have aspirations here, but can the developer please provide some points about how this service will be different than the rest in terms of features.

recroad I have a roadmap of sorts jotted down. I haven't used Pinboard or the new Delicious to know exactly how they will be different. One feature I'm really excited about is integration with Instapaper in a very seamless and meaningful way. The beta testers I've had using the site seem to like the idea. I hope to finish up that feature soon.

FWIW, I think something like instapaper, delicious/pinboard, evernote, and clipboard, should really be one service. Combine those four for me and you have my money.

Re: Why I'm building Nilai - A simple bookmarking service

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Post by twentysix »

cdevroe wrote: post #13
kijin wrote: post #11

Typo on the front page: "intension" should be "intention". You don't want to confuse all those philosophy majors out there :) I'm looking at your screenshot [1] right now, and one question comes to mind: How are users going to organize their bookmarks on Nilai? The drop-down design shown in the screenshot reminds me of Gmail's labels, which will turn into a mess once you go beyond a certain number of tags/categories.…

Good question. I can honestly tell you that given your needs, Nilai may never work well for you. I hope you find the exact service you're looking for though.

WOT gave me a warning on visiting the link but I couldn't find any reason for it to have a poor rating. I wonder what's up with that? https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/cdevroe.com

Re: Why I'm building Nilai - A simple bookmarking service

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Post by kijin »

mitechie wrote: post #15
kijin wrote: post #11

Typo on the front page: "intension" should be "intention". You don't want to confuse all those philosophy majors out there :) I'm looking at your screenshot [1] right now, and one question comes to mind: How are users going to organize their bookmarks on Nilai? The drop-down design shown in the screenshot reminds me of Gmail's labels, which will turn into a mess once you go beyond a certain number of tags/categories.…

What browser are you using that you've got your bookmarks setup in?

Firefox. But this also includes bookmarks imported from various versions of other browsers, all the way back to IE6.

Re: Why I'm building Nilai - A simple bookmarking service

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Post by mitechie »

kijin wrote: post #19
mitechie wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What browser are you using that you've got your bookmarks setup in?

Firefox. But this also includes bookmarks imported from various versions of other browsers, all the way back to IE6.

Ok cool, I've been investigating firefox json dump imports, so wanted to make sure that's what you were using.
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