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Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.

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Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.

#11
The voice is really hard to understand. Too low and the way it reads is annoying.

It seems that you can use Dropbox in some way but I didn't understand if it can save directly on a local folder (no login required) or you have to login every time.

I use ScrapBook to save whole webpages.

I haven't tried it yet but I think you can save webpages to your Dropbox folder and have them everywhere.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrapbook/

Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.

#12
I've been a Gimmebar user for months. Pro user for about 1 month. The redesign (currently available to Pro users) is great.

The difference between Gimmebar and lots of other similar services is your ability to bookmark anything you find, which is great for doing things like a moodboard for a project.

Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.

#16
post #11

The voice is really hard to understand. Too low and the way it reads is annoying. It seems that you can use Dropbox in some way but I didn't understand if it can save directly on a local folder (no login required) or you have to login every time. I use ScrapBook to save whole webpages. I haven't tried it yet but I think you can save webpages to your Dropbox folder and have them everywhere. https://addons.mozilla.org/…

I thought the video was (relatively) amazing. It was funny and cool and not overly douchy and/or nerdy like other demo videos.

Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.

#17
I'm unconvinced. I used FURL, which saved actual web pages. Then FURL was sold to diigo and they killed all that -- actually wiping out everything I saved and just leaving the URL (like a frikkin neutron bomb acquisition!). I'm not going through that again. Good luck otherwise.

Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.

#18

Seems like a cool idea, I watched the video but it hasn't convinced me why gimme bar is better than my current bookmark system in Chrome with folders etc. to be honest, I quite like my bookmark bar at the top All the video did was told me that gimme bar is better, but not why it is.

It saves the content so it doesn't matter if the original goes away. FWIW, I learned this from the video, hadn't used the product or even heard of it before.

Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.

#20
post #10

Their backup to dropbox feature is pretty nifty.

I backup to my Google account with my Chrome so I don't see the difference.

There's a huge difference between saving the content itself, and a link to something that is bound to disappear eventually.
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