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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 #16

Bookmark hell? What about click through stuff hell? Needless to say, 5 clicks through, I gave up. How about a normal link to a normal page explaining your offer?

And has cheek to say:

"Cross-platform, cross-browser Works just about everywhere (except Internet Explorer, sorry about that) (Need IE support? Email for a price quote :-))"

Meh.

Re: Show HN: Escape from Bookmark Hell

#32

Too bad that they aren't stored in the cloud. I want my bookmarks to be synced across my devices.

Some kind of cloud sync would definitely be useful. On the other hand, there's something to be said for pure client-side. Note that the site is still up despite making the front page of HN. :-)

Re: Show HN: Escape from Bookmark Hell

#34

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…

Allow me to explain (my) hate.

I saw this while browsing from my phone at a coffee shop and thought to myself, "hey, bookmarks are a pain in the ass, let's have a look"

The product could be awesome, but it took so long to get to the point that I gave up, and when I did, my history was completely full of worthless slides that it was easier to close the tab than go back.

This presentation is a great example of bad design. It wastes the readers time by failing to convey useful information quickly. I am forced to sit through a seemingly endless stream of totally worthless transitions and effects.

A presentation like this reflects very badly on the product it represents. It assumes that it is more important than me, the person on the other end of the keyboard.

Re: Show HN: Escape from Bookmark Hell

#39
Great idea, I've been meaning to do something like this since forever and it always got sidetracked. Big plus on the ability to free-text search all the content (not just title/url/etc...). I am not sure if any other service offers this for free (though Google might). It's a big fail [for me] to have a bookmarking service that stores my URLs but doesn't allow me to search all of the text.

As someone who has been using the same bookmarking service since about 2006 and has several thousand bookmarks related to various development domains/langs/etc; this is very useful.

Re: Show HN: Escape from Bookmark Hell

#40
post #20

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/

I liked the presentation, didn't like the history-filling aspect. But what I don't like is the fact that I have to change the way I bookmark things, and I certainly don't like the fact that I've got to highlight text. Can't you change it to a plugin which hijacks the default add bookmark feature, and indexes the text of the page automatically? The latter is probably more important. You've definitely identified a real…

"I liked the presentation, didn't like the history-filling aspect." +1
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