The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here • Hacker News Board

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by moystard » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 2:13 PM UTC

I think the issues described in this blog post, I still haven't found a solution to bookmark the huge quantity of information I index every day on the Internet. Pocket is very nice for reading, but lacks a proper organisation, Evernote can organise things pretty well, but does not work very well with websites imo. I am curious to try Dragdis and judge by myself.

For those wondering about synchronisation and mobile, I think these are key elements for a bookmarking service to succeed, future will tell how good Dragdis support will be.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by dragdis » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 2:15 PM UTC

jvzr wrote: post #8

marban wrote: post #6

The problem with bookmarks is not whether i need 2 or 4 clicks - it's about sync, browser & device integration, search, temporary dumps with follow-up, intelligent tagging, storing an offline copy, read-later formatting, adding metadata and even credentials, compilations, research buckets, etc. Neither pinboard nor delicious have solved this for me and i doubt some fancy d&d tool will do it.

Indeed. Will have I easy access to my data when the service is eventually sunset? Does it work on iOS/Android? Those are the questions a service has to answer for it to leave its mark, IMO.

We launched private beta month ago, so now we are focusing on the web app. After few months you will be able to sync with iOS/Android.

Also we gonna build a tool that everything you collect to dragdis would automatically go to dropbox, gdrive or skydrive.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by 616c » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 2:15 PM UTC

marban wrote: post #6

The problem with bookmarks is not whether i need 2 or 4 clicks - it's about sync, browser & device integration, search, temporary dumps with follow-up, intelligent tagging, storing an offline copy, read-later formatting, adding metadata and even credentials, compilations, research buckets, etc. Neither pinboard nor delicious have solved this for me and i doubt some fancy d&d tool will do it.

And that is why I use Firefox sync, and I work on hosting my own sync node on a VPS. None of my co-workers understand the utility boost in seeing, all from a server-side encrypted store:

- Passwords - Bookmarks - History - Open tabs on other devices - Extensions - The list goes on

You can say the other things about Chrome and Chromium (as of recently, even the encryption part) but I do not see the docs, the code, and infrastructure published and public like Mozilla has done. Hell, someone even built in a sync mechanism in PHP to ownCloud, to make it more useful.

It is efforts like this that make me, despite other warts, a militant Firefox user. The software is ok, but an institution that pushes standards and worries about my privacy, the whole shebang, is really worth it to me.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by ThomPete » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 2:16 PM UTC

I would be willing to pay good money for the ultimate bookmarking tool.

But it needs to be a good combination of instapaper and delicios.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by beshrkayali » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 2:17 PM UTC

Interesting! Here's my take on bookmarking: http://anunnaki.me

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by porker » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 2:22 PM UTC

I posted this morning about bookmarking and link curation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5367663

dragdis is not the solution.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by niggler » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 2:23 PM UTC

Is arctic startup the new techcrunch?

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by Swizec » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 2:25 PM UTC

The ultimate bookmarking tool: Google.

Just google for something you want to use. It works like magic. The info is always up to date [1], it always finds what you need from the most obscure of references your brain comes up with, and no links are ever broken.

Oh and everything is a single click away. Win.

[1] no working off of stale bookmarks where the author neglected to go back and say "HEY THIS IS BAD NOW, DONT DO IT"

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by Nightrider » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 2:40 PM UTC

porker wrote: post #16

I posted this morning about bookmarking and link curation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5367663 dragdis is not the solution.

Curation of personal information is the BIG problem IMO. The closest I've gotten is to stay within the Microsoft ecosystem. Almost everything is there, and the Windows Phone 8 puts it all in my pocket.

But still, I find myself compiling master files and I haven't yet scratched that bookmarking / project management / gtd itch. It's my holy grail now

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by DanBC » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 2:41 PM UTC

mseebach wrote: post #4

The "number of clicks" table and the pain described in the video (when you see a nice picture online, you'll want to navigate through a messy folder structure and save it to your filesystem) reeks of not having a good idea of the niche the product is trying to fill. The first is fallacious (I don't know how they count, by I can clip things to Evernote in two clicks and I don't think a long drag is necessarily better…

> non-social bookmarking is as old as the browser, it's called "bookmarks".

But "bookmarks" sucks for many people. I want something like any of those social bookmark sites, but I have no interest in the social stuff. I just want a nicer way to see my bookmarks.

> The UI for the site just looks like Pinterest.

And compared to a huge nested list of folders looking like Pinterest is probably a good thing.