Show HN: Escape from Bookmark Hell

It's a pure client-side personal search engine for bookmarks, using HTML5 local storage. You can add (and search) arbitrary text to the record. It can import your existing bookmarks, too.

Sorry about the vertigo. :-)

If you want to skip the presentation and go straight to the live site: http://pse.contraterrene.com/engine/

Re: Show HN: Escape from Bookmark Hell

#5

Post by Ixiaus » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 12:24 PM UTC

I use org-mode and emacs now for bookmarks.

Org-protocol + bookmarklets makes it easy, just click the "Bookmark" bookmarklet and it sends the URL/Description (anything on the page that I want really) to emacsclient which uses my own capture template and prompts me for some keywords.

C-c / /, ack, and ctags makes searching those bookmarks very fast and easy for things I vaguely remember!

Re: Show HN: Escape from Bookmark Hell

#6

Post by crisnoble » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 12:25 PM UTC

This is pretty neat, when I finally got to the tab i opened it on, it was on the last slide (of a deck i did not know existed). When I clicked to try i had no idea what was going on. My suggestion, write your presentation in paragraph form and put it with the product somewhere.

Re: Show HN: Escape from Bookmark Hell

#7

Post by contextual » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 12:26 PM UTC

The intro was very long and boring. You should be able to explain exactly what your service does while standing on one leg. That spiel would give someone a vicious leg cramp.

Re: Show HN: Escape from Bookmark Hell

#8

Post by pyre » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 12:27 PM UTC

Thanks for polluting my web history so that I can't just hit "back" to get to HN. :P

Re: Show HN: Escape from Bookmark Hell

#9

Post by Turing_Machine » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 12:31 PM UTC

crisnoble wrote: post #6

This is pretty neat, when I finally got to the tab i opened it on, it was on the last slide (of a deck i did not know existed). When I clicked to try i had no idea what was going on. My suggestion, write your presentation in paragraph form and put it with the product somewhere.

Thanks. Good idea.

Re: Show HN: Escape from Bookmark Hell

#10

Post by DjangoReinhardt » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 12:33 PM UTC

pyre wrote: post #8

Thanks for polluting my web history so that I can't just hit "back" to get to HN. :P

I present to you three alternatives for better browsing:

1. CTRL+click

2. Middle-click

3. Right-click link -> Open in new tab.

One of them should (hopefully) work if you are using a browser that supports tabbed windows.

;)

EDIT: Almost forgot this one: If you are browsing on your mobile device, long-press -> "open in new tab" or "open in background tab" should (ideally) work.