Please create a Firefox add-on. I don't like using the bookmarks bar at all.
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.
#62I 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 p…
FYI, if you want to recover the origin of those ~/box pictures, they may have the original URL and referring URL stored in their metadata. Anything saved from a web browser should have this information in it.
You can use "mdls" to see it. I put a quick and dirty python library to get and set these values at: https://gist.github.com/2889617 (I use it to backup this data.)
This field can also help you find the source of those random pdf files lying around your disk. And you can query it with spotlight. For example,
mdfind "(kMDItemWhereFroms = '*ycombinator.com*')"
Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.
#63I use a really hackish perl script to wget, diff, and wget -r websites in this way, because articles disappear way too much for my liking. This product looks wonderful and I'll be playing around with the API as soon as I have a spare moment. Thankyou for this.
Hmm. A few more minutes with this has me a little mixed. I may have confused this with some kind of personal mirror service. Is there a way to mirror an entire page? (Recursively --no-parent is ideal, usually.) Even backing up the plain HTML without images would be suitable. Text is formatted usually.
A great product nonetheless. It will replace a cocktail of pastebins + image/binary uploaders for me, in many cases. The screenshots are most definitely useful. For articles where formatting and sublinks are important, I may need to keep using my silly wget routine.
Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.
#64Seems very like evernote webclipper. http://evernote.com/webclipper/
I think their landing page needs to indicate how they are different from Evernote. The ability to 'find cool new stuff' is intriguing - a bit like Stumbleupon + Evernote then?
Also there needs to be a way to contact someone and/or ask questions and/or provide feedback. An Olark tab would work.
Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.
#65I 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 p…
> 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.
Hard drive space is cheap, cheaper than your own time when you discover you want context or perhaps some other choice sentence from that page. The best solution is to save the whole page, and annotate the bit of interest.
(My own current solution-hack is two parallel systems: manual Evernotes for specific quotes or photos, and an automatic archive system that downloads the entire page: http://www.gwern.net/Archiving%20URLs So I consult one or the other as appropriate.)
Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.
#66Like Pinterest, Gimme Bar will quickly fall afoul of copyright lawyers. Copying content outright and re-serving it from your own systems ... not good.
If its for your own purposes I don't see why its any different than archive.org. The intent isn't to make money, just archival.
Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.
#67Seems nice, though a bit slow. When copying quotes it would be even nicer if you could keep the formatting from the website. Bold text, lists etc. should be preserved when presented on your site. I thought the screenshot feature could have been a useful alternative, but for certain pages it doesn't really work: http://inoveryourhead.net/20-things-i-should-have-known-at-2... - I'm not sure it can be solved in general.…
If you really want quotes and things to be presented in the same formatting as the site, you might want to try Citational. It fills a different role than GimmieBar, in that it's meant for one-shot sharing instead of an archive. But it does let you highlight text or an image and show it in context: https://citational.com/v/5mf/15-learn-to-cook
(Yes, I built it... )
Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
On any Gimme Bar asset page, you'll find a direct link back to the original URL where it was grabbed from. You don't need to use the short link if you don't want to, but we do make it slightly more convenient.
I guess it's the difference between: a) blogging your thoughts about an article and linking back to it, which encourages people to read the original so they know the context for what you've written. VERSUS b) quoting all or almost all of the interesting bits from the article, and providing a link to the original. In the latter case, there is no reason or incentive for the user to visit the source. In the past couple…
To be fair, the intent of Gimme Bar is to be a personal web-saving tool first, and a "social" tool a very, very distant second.
There are enough tools and applications out there that let you share links and pictures of stuff you like, but not many that are completely focused on ensuring that those things you like stick around in an easily searchable and backup-able way.
Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.
#69Looks nice, but that dropbox-export is not enough futureproofing for me. When I rely on something like this, I need to be sure it will keep automatically existing even if any one company goes down. In your case, I should not have to manually initiate the dropbox backup, and it should not rely exclusively on one cloud provider. So there sould be something like a RAIC (redundant array of independent clouds) and then yo…
If this comment came up in a customer development interview my notes would read "Likelihood of sale: not a snowball's chance in hell."
Re: Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.
#70I 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 p…
> 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. Hard drive space is cheap, cheaper than your own time when you discover you want context or perhaps some other choice sentence from that…
> The best solution is to save the whole page, and annotate the bit of interest.
Agreed. That's definitely something I'd love to see Gimme Bar do: in addition to showing me the quote I pulled out of the page, also give me the option to see the full page, with the text I quoted highlighted.