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What does it give me that I don't get from pocket?
To those who still don't use the service: use the possibility: sign up in this year, you can use than the service as long as it exists. Maciej, in case you read here, thanks a lot for a beautiful product. I've already decided to pay you yearly. And not because I want to support you (although I wish people would support more such operations like yours) but because I really find your service useful and inexpensive. I s…
"To those who still don't use the service: use the possibility: sign up in this year, you can use than the service as long as it exists." One side-effect - almost certainly unintentional, from what I know of Maciej - of the change is that a surge in subscriptions might occur as people take advantage. If I hadn't already paid, I certainly would now. I originally signed up more-or-less on a whim, and I haven't taken fu…
> An astonishing number of people already believe that they're paying annually for Pinboard. I've always wondered about this. The subscription model is so ingrained nowadays that I cannot think of any other web service of any kind which uses a one-time fee.
To those who still don't use the service: use the possibility: sign up in this year, you can use than the service as long as it exists. Maciej, in case you read here, thanks a lot for a beautiful product. I've already decided to pay you yearly. And not because I want to support you (although I wish people would support more such operations like yours) but because I really find your service useful and inexpensive. I s…
"To those who still don't use the service: use the possibility: sign up in this year, you can use than the service as long as it exists." One side-effect - almost certainly unintentional, from what I know of Maciej - of the change is that a surge in subscriptions might occur as people take advantage. If I hadn't already paid, I certainly would now. I originally signed up more-or-less on a whim, and I haven't taken fu…
I still can't figure out whether Pinboard is insane or genius for pricing it at ~$10/lifetime (or in this case $11/year). I've paid Dropbox about $480 now, and it's easily that valuable. But the amount of value I've derived from Pinboard is comparable. The value is "You'll never lose this note, idea, or tool ever again in your entire life. Even if it goes offline, you'll still have a starting point for remembering th…
A Pinboard user here. When I signed up I hoped there would be nice browser integration but it's just not there. UX for me is just rubbish compared to native bookmarking or to even old delicious extensions. Honest question, why Pinboard is any better than using integrated Chrome bookmarks sync feature? (ignoring the archive feature of Pinboard)
Can someone give me some hints about pinboard's advantages over, lets say, delicious? I know people love it over here but from what I've read it seems to be more about the openness of the creator that the product itself.
The things I like about Pinboard:
The UI is simple, intuitive, and works on my computers, my iPad, my phone, etc.
It doesn't do a million other things and lose focus on bookmarking.
It doesn't integrate with Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and the rest.
It doesn't rollout new changes every other week.
I'm not worried about the site getting sold to a different company and being ruined.
I'm not worried about the current owner deciding he needs to change things up and ruining it.
It's always online. In the past, even when getting pounded by new sign ups (i.e. after Delicious has a new release) the site's stayed online. I think the worst I've seen is he throttled or disabled the importing tasks for a little bit.
It charged me up front instead of making money off of me on the backend by selling my data to advertisers.
I still can't figure out whether Pinboard is insane or genius for pricing it at ~$10/lifetime (or in this case $11/year). I've paid Dropbox about $480 now, and it's easily that valuable. But the amount of value I've derived from Pinboard is comparable. The value is "You'll never lose this note, idea, or tool ever again in your entire life. Even if it goes offline, you'll still have a starting point for remembering th…
A Pinboard user here. When I signed up I hoped there would be nice browser integration but it's just not there. UX for me is just rubbish compared to native bookmarking or to even old delicious extensions. Honest question, why Pinboard is any better than using integrated Chrome bookmarks sync feature? (ignoring the archive feature of Pinboard)
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A Pinboard user here. When I signed up I hoped there would be nice browser integration but it's just not there. UX for me is just rubbish compared to native bookmarking or to even old delicious extensions. Honest question, why Pinboard is any better than using integrated Chrome bookmarks sync feature? (ignoring the archive feature of Pinboard)
Hm, would you expand on what you disliked about the integration? You're using the bookmarklet, right? I just click on "pin this" whenever I want to save the current webpage, and click on "my pinboard" whenever I want to look for a bookmark. The killer feature for me is being able to type in a description for each bookmark, because later on you can search by any word in that description. I've given up on tagging anyth…
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A Pinboard user here. When I signed up I hoped there would be nice browser integration but it's just not there. UX for me is just rubbish compared to native bookmarking or to even old delicious extensions. Honest question, why Pinboard is any better than using integrated Chrome bookmarks sync feature? (ignoring the archive feature of Pinboard)
It is actually the archiving that is the main benefit of Pinboard. Then tagging and commenting the links for yourself, in order make it easier for you to find it later. The goal is to keep there more than what you'd bookmark. The bookmark is for me "I expect I'll be visiting this often." The link in Pinboard is "my archive of the stuff I've once read on the web that I can need later to refer to, in the state it was a…
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It is actually the archiving that is the main benefit of Pinboard. Then tagging and commenting the links for yourself, in order make it easier for you to find it later. The goal is to keep there more than what you'd bookmark. The bookmark is for me "I expect I'll be visiting this often." The link in Pinboard is "my archive of the stuff I've once read on the web that I can need later to refer to, in the state it was a…
This is what I use Evernote for. Why do you like Pinboard better? (Not challenging--actually curious. I've never used Pinboard.)
I didn't understand what the fuss was about with Delicious and (later) Pinboard, and didn't start using Pinboard in earnest until a year or so ago, but now that I've got archiving running and full-text search, I have no idea what I would ever do without Pinboard.