Raindrop 5.0
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Raindrop 5.0
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Re: Raindrop 5.0
#2Seems nice.
1. Needs more blockchain for versioning/authenticity
2. Needs additional knowledge management beyond collections and tags
Re: Raindrop 5.0
#3I am unsure between this and Pinboard.in.
Raindrop certainly looks better, but Pinboard seems to have better integrations across other services. Those permanent archives are nice to have, but it does not feel that permanent without a local copy and a perceived bus-factor of 1 on both of them.
I requested an Archive Backup in my Pinboard settings, but I am still waiting for a download link three weeks later.
Thankfully, those bookmarks.html exports and imports seem to be very reliable across different bookmarking services.
Re: Raindrop 5.0
#4When I click on the link, then I read that raindrop-io is fast intuitive and smart, and at the very bottom I see a link to tell me its an extension. I like fast, intuituive and smart extensions, I'm looking forward to buying pizza with this ;). In otherwards what does it do!?! :)
Re: Raindrop 5.0
#5When I click on the link, then I read that raindrop-io is fast intuitive and smart, and at the very bottom I see a link to tell me its an extension. I like fast, intuituive and smart extensions, I'm looking forward to buying pizza with this ;). In otherwards what does it do!?! :)
They have a nice landing page: https://raindrop.io/
Re: Raindrop 5.0
#6All their apps are open source. If anyone is interested -
Re: Raindrop 5.0
#7When I click on the link, then I read that raindrop-io is fast intuitive and smart, and at the very bottom I see a link to tell me its an extension. I like fast, intuituive and smart extensions, I'm looking forward to buying pizza with this ;). In otherwards what does it do!?! :)
They have a nice landing page: https://raindrop.io/
Thanks. Wasn't hard to find that, it was just a minor nitpick to say if you're going to spend the effort to promote then perhaps provide some clues immediately after the click. Maybe this was a strategy to make people curious, and therefor more engaged, and therefor more likely to convert :).
Re: Raindrop 5.0
#8I just signed up for this because it looks pretty neat, and installed the chrome extension. Now I can't for the life of me figure out how to get back into the chrome extension settings after having gone through the initial sign up wizard. I'll admit I have a head cold so maybe I'm just dumb today, but how do I get back to the settings for how the extension itself works?
Re: Raindrop 5.0
#9Does Raindrop save the content in a way that is accessible? For example can it create a local backup of all the webpages I bookmark organized neatly? Is there an option for it to take my existing bookmarks, and import them all, and archive all of them?
Re: Raindrop 5.0
#10I've been using Raindrop for about a year. It's just a much better bookmarking app than what's come before.
It really comes down to UX. The browser integration is fantastic, and there's a really smooth native-feel Electron app that has an integrated browser.
One of my favourite uses is creating a temporary "project-oriented" collection. For example, let's say I'm researching places to travel. I can create a collection about this, bookmark things (destinations, discussion threads, Wikipedia entries, etc.) as I go along, and then use the built-in browser to go back and forth between each bookmark as I make notes or whatever. Normally you'd use browser tabs for this, except the Raindrop way means I'm not consuming lots of browser resources, and the collection stays persistent even if I close it.
The same workflow works for tech projects I work on (where I may want some documentation, papers, etc. "scrapbooked" in a temporary place), and many other things.
Safari is the only browser (that I know) that has a similar kind of bookmark-oriented browsing functionality, and it's just not very good.
Overall it's much nicer than the older services such as Delicious and Pinboard, not to mention the atrocious built-in bookmarking features in modern browsers, which have been ossifying since around 1998.