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Re: Raindrop.io – Smart Bookmarks

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Post by baby »

yardie wrote: post #29

This is great! I've got 40 tabs open in firefox and my browser is straining under the pressure. A lot of them is research for work (servers, services, reviews). Some of it I don't care to bookmark. And some of it I'd like to read at home but have no way to get it there except emailing the link to myself.

I used dragdis and/or evernote before that. I'm gonna try this new thing but I'm scared it will be like the others and just become a place where I put things I'll never read.

* I like it better than dragdis, you don't have to drag anything to save it! Which is a pain on a laptop.

* It's too hidden and like other of its kind I might forget about it and never read what I put there.

Re: Raindrop.io – Smart Bookmarks

#32

Post by 14113 »

wololo_ wrote: post #14
mosselman wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you expand on this? I use pocket for 'read this later'. Raindrop.io seems very well suited for bookmarks so far.

Pocket is limiting me on articles only.. (psychologically). I always wanted an app where I can save my links, for say images on the web, or videos with a description of the timestamp I have reached at. Maybe I want to keep bookmarks for later, but it's not worthy for it to be in my bookmarks bar in my browser and it's not an article (say at top 20 list to submit your startup written by a YC user).

My personal issue with pocket is that there's no way to search by article tag, only by the content of the article.

Re: Raindrop.io – Smart Bookmarks

#33

Post by pron »

baby wrote: post #31
yardie wrote: post #29

This is great! I've got 40 tabs open in firefox and my browser is straining under the pressure. A lot of them is research for work (servers, services, reviews). Some of it I don't care to bookmark. And some of it I'd like to read at home but have no way to get it there except emailing the link to myself.

I used dragdis and/or evernote before that. I'm gonna try this new thing but I'm scared it will be like the others and just become a place where I put things I'll never read. * I like it better than dragdis, you don't have to drag anything to save it! Which is a pain on a laptop. * It's too hidden and like other of its kind I might forget about it and never read what I put there.

We're all web-hoarders.

Re: Raindrop.io – Smart Bookmarks

#34

Post by mgkimsal »

baby wrote: post #31
yardie wrote: post #29

This is great! I've got 40 tabs open in firefox and my browser is straining under the pressure. A lot of them is research for work (servers, services, reviews). Some of it I don't care to bookmark. And some of it I'd like to read at home but have no way to get it there except emailing the link to myself.

I used dragdis and/or evernote before that. I'm gonna try this new thing but I'm scared it will be like the others and just become a place where I put things I'll never read. * I like it better than dragdis, you don't have to drag anything to save it! Which is a pain on a laptop. * It's too hidden and like other of its kind I might forget about it and never read what I put there.

2 things I'd like to see in a bookmarking service.

1. Have it email me nightly or weekly recapping what I've bookmarked.

2. At some point (perhaps in the recap) show me if any of my friends have also bookmarked the same thing (perhaps from Facebook or g+ graph data).

I could live without #2, and might want to opt-out - there are some things I bookmark I wouldn't want other people knowing about, but some things I wouldn't mind.

Re: Raindrop.io – Smart Bookmarks

#35

Post by mgkimsal »

n8m wrote: post #17

Ahw crap :( I was working on something similar. But this looks really good. Now they just have to get over that "hug of death" and pay for a bigger server. As for money generation- sooner or later you will probably see ads in certain areas unless you sign up for a premium plan.

Send a nightly or weekly recap of stuff you've bookmarked (possibly with an indicator of how many other people bookmarked the same items over the time period). Maybe even with a 'click here to organize/tag' link to help me manage things on a regular basis.

I'd probably pay up to $10/year for something like that. I bookmark a lot, but then forget about things. A service that reminded me what I bookmarked would be great.

Re: Raindrop.io – Smart Bookmarks

#36

Post by lazyjones »

yardie wrote: post #29

This is great! I've got 40 tabs open in firefox and my browser is straining under the pressure. A lot of them is research for work (servers, services, reviews). Some of it I don't care to bookmark. And some of it I'd like to read at home but have no way to get it there except emailing the link to myself.

Um... Just drag the URLs from the location bar to your Dropbox/Wuala explorer window and click on them later?

Re: Raindrop.io – Smart Bookmarks

#38

Post by malce »

baby wrote: post #31
yardie wrote: post #29

This is great! I've got 40 tabs open in firefox and my browser is straining under the pressure. A lot of them is research for work (servers, services, reviews). Some of it I don't care to bookmark. And some of it I'd like to read at home but have no way to get it there except emailing the link to myself.

I used dragdis and/or evernote before that. I'm gonna try this new thing but I'm scared it will be like the others and just become a place where I put things I'll never read. * I like it better than dragdis, you don't have to drag anything to save it! Which is a pain on a laptop. * It's too hidden and like other of its kind I might forget about it and never read what I put there.

Dragdis is more about to keep you organised. With one Drag&drop you can collect anything you want and place it on the right place (you don't need to click save, then select the folder, etc.).

For example Pocket is very great for "read it later" but it's hard to be organised there.

Also, Dragdis will have integrations with Evernote, Pocket, Gdrive, Dropbox, Tumblr soon. So you will be able to Drag&drop your items directly to Evernote notebooks for example.

Re: Raindrop.io – Smart Bookmarks

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Post by toni »

warmbytes wrote: post #21
fakenBisEsRult wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The closest thing you can get that is opensource is https://www.wallabag.org/ But it needs more work to be useful to me. For instance, I don't always want to save the contents of the webpage, but just the link along with some notes or tags.

For that case you may use a bookmark manager. For an open-source self-hosted one, check Shaarli : https://github.com/sebsauvage/Shaarli

I have developed a much much simpler variation for myself which is actually nothing more than a personal clone from old school del.icio.us: http://i.imgur.com/7jnTyvC.png

I use it now for almost 5 years and have more than 10 thousands bookmarks in it. If there is any interest, I will put it up on Github.

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