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Show HN: Escape from Bookmark Hell

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Re: Show HN: Escape from Bookmark Hell

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Post by rickhanlonii »

Haters gunna hate, but I like the spirit of the presentation.

This is better than a flashy flat one-page design with a lot of color and no substance. It's more personal, and is a unique touch. I know why he created the product, what it does, and how to get it.

As for the product itself, I think there's a real need for better bookmark organization that's done well. I'm not sure if this is it, because from the features exhibited it seems a lot like just using Evernote Web Clipper. I'd like to see features that help organize my bookmark folders better, maybe using tags for links and folders or some other creative organization tactic. Evernote WC can do this, but it doesn't do it in a lightweight way where I can get good overview of my links.

Better yet, having a relation graph would be nice too--grouping by links added in a certain session or around a certain concept. For example, I want to find all of the links I found when I was looking up "CSS vertically centering div".

Anyway, great work OP.

Re: Show HN: Escape from Bookmark Hell

#24

Post by desouzt »

rickhanlonii wrote: post #23

Haters gunna hate, but I like the spirit of the presentation. This is better than a flashy flat one-page design with a lot of color and no substance. It's more personal, and is a unique touch. I know why he created the product, what it does, and how to get it. As for the product itself, I think there's a real need for better bookmark organization that's done well. I'm not sure if this is it, because from the features…

+1 - totally agree. It's good to see a product described in a different, fresh way. Bugs me when people criticise people's projects, when half the time they've done little themselves.

Re: Show HN: Escape from Bookmark Hell

#25

Post by pyre »

DjangoReinhardt wrote: post #10
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.

Your long-winded reply of "just use tabbed browsing" does not address the fact that this is a sloppy UI choice. You're also implicitly stating that when someone makes a website it's ok for them to base their design decisions around the assumption that the user will be using tabbed browsing in such a fashion.

Re: Show HN: Escape from Bookmark Hell

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Post by bendavis381 »

rickhanlonii wrote: post #23

Haters gunna hate, but I like the spirit of the presentation. This is better than a flashy flat one-page design with a lot of color and no substance. It's more personal, and is a unique touch. I know why he created the product, what it does, and how to get it. As for the product itself, I think there's a real need for better bookmark organization that's done well. I'm not sure if this is it, because from the features…

What about Pocket?

Re: Show HN: Escape from Bookmark Hell

#30

Post by harel »

I like the idea and the locality of it all, and I like the execution. However, I've been using dragdis for a while now and it solves most of my bookmarking needs in a similar way (though 'cloud' based). Regardless though - this is a very nice solution.
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