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Re: Show HN: Smart bookmarks extension

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Post by icesoldier »

doczoidberg wrote: post #9

can anyone recommend a cross browser bookmark solution?

I've used xmarks for several years now and I like it. Sometimes it can be awkward when different browsers' conventions both sync in (like Firefox's "Unsorted Bookmarks" appears as a folder in any other browser), but otherwise it's been nice.

Re: Show HN: Smart bookmarks extension

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Post by GrinningFool »

webmaven wrote: post #22

Interesting, and very slick and pretty, but doesn't solve my too-many-tabs problem anywhere near as well as Tabs Outliner: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk...

Equivalent for firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

It supports grouping in the tab bar, or alongside in tree form. I find the integrated interface a bit better than the Chrome plugin above.

Re: Show HN: Smart bookmarks extension

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Post by vxNsr »

So that makes what 4 or 5 new bookmarks extensions for chrome in the last two weeks?

They all suffer from the exact same problem: online and not nearly as fast as the current default option in chrome. Don't get me wrong, I hate the default bookmarks manger in chrome and wish that after 6 years they'd update it already (or at least ad api's that allow someone else to) but all the latest get same basic things wrong while not being very different form one another.

EDIT: I guess I should clarify, I don't mean that online is bad, I used xmarks for a long time, I just don't like online only because it affects retrieval and search rates. There's just no way to beat the speed of a local directory.

[I've installed Dewey, dragdis, and fetching.io. fetching is really more of a history extension than a bookmarking one but the idea behind it is the same. After about two weeks I stopped using Dragdis because the UI makes looking for things impossible and Dewey I installed but never enabled because it was just too much of a hassle]

Re: Show HN: Smart bookmarks extension

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Post by exentrich »

vxNsr wrote: post #26

So that makes what 4 or 5 new bookmarks extensions for chrome in the last two weeks? They all suffer from the exact same problem: online and not nearly as fast as the current default option in chrome. Don't get me wrong, I hate the default bookmarks manger in chrome and wish that after 6 years they'd update it already (or at least ad api's that allow someone else to) but all the latest get same basic things wrong whi…

I think cloud sync is good idea! Because you can access bookmarks not only from your current browser, but also from mobile app/API. In near feature Raindrop will have mobile app and powerful API for third-party developers
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