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Can linkidex display bookmarks as a grid page of favicons? I find this presentation more dense and using spatial memory helps me get to a bookmark more quickly.
Cool project! I’ve been using a Notion database for exactly this problem. The only feature I can see from a quick glance that this has and Notion doesn’t is quickly exporting to browser bookmark format. Any other cool features I’m missing?
May I ask what made you choose notion vs any alternative? Do you like having complete control over the shape of your data, do you like the UI, or is there something else about it?
I've been using Shiori for some time. It is built in Go and open source.
May I ask what made you decide to use Shiori instead of pocket or something else? It looks like Shiori is marketed as a "simple clone of pocket."
Can linkidex display bookmarks as a grid page of favicons? I find this presentation more dense and using spatial memory helps me get to a bookmark more quickly.
the first UI I built with Linkidex was a grid instead of rows. I moved to rows because the grid became tedious for users to parse when they began to search or filter and grid elements started shuffling.
Linkidex does not currently get a sites Favicons, and currently doesn't have a way to fix where a given Link is on the page. I have catalogued this feedback thank you.
Can linkidex display bookmarks as a grid page of favicons? I find this presentation more dense and using spatial memory helps me get to a bookmark more quickly.
What do you do when there is no favicon, or it looks like this? https://www.marginalia.nu/favicon.ico
It should auto synchronize with browser as another devixe, not just import export. Sync code in Chromium and Firefox is opensource ...
Can linkidex display bookmarks as a grid page of favicons? I find this presentation more dense and using spatial memory helps me get to a bookmark more quickly.
What do you do when there is no favicon, or it looks like this? https://www.marginalia.nu/favicon.ico
No way to fix ugly favicons though. Name of of domain can still be used as well.
What it misses for me personally is an ability to search over the pages my links are pointing to. Ideally within some additional radius over the links these pages have. Perhaps, it won't be easy to implement, but it looks like the only way to find a page you've bookmarked a year ago when you vaguely remember what was it about... Even integration with Google Custom Search would do the job here.
For example, if I have a webpage "www.linkidex.com/test" which displays a bunch of text, including "HackerNews2022", you need the ability to find this link by searching for `HackerNews2022`, assuming that you haven't named the link `HackerNews2022` or tagged it or categorized it as such?
Some of our competitors have this feature, but this feature comes at a cost. What happens if the given page you have saved changes? What if you save a page "New Laptop setup instructions" and those instructions change? It may be harmful to follow laptop setup instructions that are out of date.
Cool project! I’ve been using a Notion database for exactly this problem. The only feature I can see from a quick glance that this has and Notion doesn’t is quickly exporting to browser bookmark format. Any other cool features I’m missing?
Notion Databases are neat! I’m not familiar with them, I just glanced over some of the documentation. I think its safe to say Notion Databases would let you create your own Linkidex (or your own todo list app, or your own food macro tracking app, etc) as long as you are willing to spend the time building and maintaining it, which you must if you have already put in the work! May I ask what made you choose notion vs a…
I think the main features that led me to choose Notion were:
- Fully cross-platform (web, desktop, mobile)
- Browser extension (PC & Mobile) to quickly save pages to any database
- Ability to create searchable databases with custom fields, tags, multiple views, and other advanced features
- Ability to easily move an item from one database to another, for example moving an article from “Reading List” to “Saved Articles”
- Every database entry is also a page, so an entry in “Saved Articles” can have notes or links to other similar articles
- Very easy to share a database or page, similar to Google Drive
Of course, it’s not without its problems. Because it’s so general-purpose, it can feel unfocused and clunky at times. There are also concerns with having so much data in one tool, and it took a while to get everything set up. But being able to use the same tool to bookmark an interesting article to read later, do my finances, and find a favorite recipe for dinner has been a great experience.
It is of course fully possible that there’s a better alternative that I’ve missed, but it’s served me well so far.
Also I have a severe fear of link rot. I developed the habit of putting every link I would bookmark into web.archive.org and archive.is as well. So a nice tool should do that too (and of course store the generated link). Some folks might even would want to have it stored offline.