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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.

#21
I use Gimme Bar and love it. I also use Pinboard.

Pinboard I use for pointers to things - GitHub projects that might come in handy in the future, development/design resources, particularly interesting Wikipedia articles, and other things like interviews and magazine articles.

But there's some stuff that I want to keep. I used to have a `~/box` folder on my Mac where I'd keep pictures, quotes, and screenshots of web pages I really liked. I wanted to keep them locally so that I would always have a copy of them. However, there were problems with this. By just keeping pictures as files, I couldn't always easily find where the picture came from (not without coming up with a complicated naming scheme or moving away from the simplicity of just having files in a folder). I kept quotes in plain text, so attribution was difficult for them, too — I needed to be able to capture quotes quickly, so I didn't have time to also store the URL the quote came from. And screenshots of webpages aren't exactly interactive — if I wanted to look at some HTML to see how something was done on the page, too bad. I also didn't have a pretty way to look at all the things I'd wanted to keep. All I had was a Finder window.

I know that Pinboard's premium service can archive each bookmark I send there (I've been thinking about enabling it just so I have permanent copies of interviews), but archiving an entire page is overkill for when I just want to save one image or one choice sentence from the page. Besides, if I archive the whole page, how can I indicate which image/quote I wanted to save in the first place? Long story short, Pinboard's archiving isn't quite what I want (though, like I said, I've been thinking about switching it on for backing up interviews).

Gimme Bar is basically the best of all those worlds. I can save images, videos, quotes, and site designs. I can easily see where the image/quote/etc. came from. The site gives me a purdy way of looking at them. And integration with Dropbox means I always have a local copy of everything. Gimme Bar lets me have my cake, eat it, and have my cake stored in Dropbox (I may be stretching this metaphor).

Anyway, I really, really like Gimme Bar.

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

#22

Great idea, I love it. But serious, to all those doing their on voiceovers...BUY A DECENT MIC. They are 30 USD max

all else aside 'They are 30 USD max' means you and I have different definitions of decent and max. (perhaps you mean acceptable and min?)

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

#24

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.

If I understood correctly they have an option to backup content to your Dropbox account.

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

#25

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.

That's exactly how I felt after trunk.ly was acquired. I thought I had the perfect system for bookmarks, only to have it all wiped out from underneath me.

That said, with the Dropbox integration, this looks pretty nifty. I particularly like the library view, which is far superior to the way Evernote displays data.

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

#26

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.

Well.. you could use firefox maff extension to save webpages locally (and your local could be in the cloud, or on a remote backup). MAFF are just zipped html/css/js/img.

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

#30

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.

Hi.

You make a good point. We've gone to great lengths to ensure this doesn't happen. One of those lengths is that you can export your entire library to Dropbox. This protects you against us failing or being stupid in other ways.

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