Not exactly a dev-specific tool, but I created a mind map for storing all the interesting stuff I've read/want to read in different formats than just plain text:
No restriction on "topics" or "maps" or anything. Fully free to use.
K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers
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Re: K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers
#22I love the idea of this, but frankly, this seems like a system that becomes more useful if you use it for a long long time. And for systems like this, I need a guarantee that there won't be "exciting news, we got acquired, and tomorrow all our services are shutting down." I know that's a bit of a downer take, and maybe I should just not hang out on HN with this attitude, but I really wonder if I'm that alone with thi…
You are not alone. The first thing I went to look for was an export feature. No mention of it on the landing page.
Re: K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers
#23Functionally I do not see any additional value compared to a simple 'grep' or 'find' on a folder with notes.
Re: K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers
#24Has anyone a good open source, self hosted alternative of this? Since I don't know any, I was thinking of starting something like this at some point. Something to save interesting bookmarks/lightweight media (gifs, memes, ...) or even small blog articles. Make it federated, with some full text search feature ala elastic search but more lightweight, with a reddit like interface.
I just use a folder with (text) files. E.g. if you call them
keyword1-...-keywordN
you can `find` for keywords and `grep` for content and put in everything you want. You could also use subfolders for topics.
I don't see what K-Stash offers more.
Re: K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers
#25I love the idea of this, but frankly, this seems like a system that becomes more useful if you use it for a long long time. And for systems like this, I need a guarantee that there won't be "exciting news, we got acquired, and tomorrow all our services are shutting down." I know that's a bit of a downer take, and maybe I should just not hang out on HN with this attitude, but I really wonder if I'm that alone with thi…
You are not alone. The first thing I went to look for was an export feature. No mention of it on the landing page.
The Pro and Premium plans seem to have a JSON export.
"We allow you to export your data only if you pay enough." Hmm.
Re: K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers
#26fwiw Diigo https://www.diigo.com/ was the tool I ended with last time I was looking for something like this. It's already got things like bookmarking plugins, page archiving, outlining, tagging, in-page annotation, highlighting, sharing, search, exports etc.
I've now been using Diigo for over three years now; it's been reliable, its feature set feels very complete, works well, and they seem to have a sustainable business model based on subscription plans e.g. I consider the $40 p/a I pay for standard somewhat of a bargain.
Always interested in new shineys, but what is K-Stash's unique value proposition vs Diigo?
Re: K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers
#27I mean this kindly: I highly recommend you hire a copywriter to go over your site. The spelling errors and grammar issues undermine confidence.
Re: K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers
#28The problem I find with this entire segment of the industry - is that nothing seems to work as I grow and change. Everyone is actively trying to achieve vendor lock in. It's true for Evernote, OneNote, Notion - and all the other things too.
To make it worse, none of them are better than pen and paper. I want the ability, from my desktop to clip sections of pages, capture pages, annotate them, etc. I want to have the same experience on phone and tablet whether iOS, Android, or a mixture thereof. I want to annotate with notes, that I want to remain as handwritten notes, but be legitimately OCRed for the purpose of search. I don't want to click anything to make this happen; on a tablet this means just write and go. Rocketbook is the closest I've gotten to that, and it was still unbelievably far away from the goal set.
So now, I'm back to pen, paper, and OneNote. I hate it - but it's currently (and not two months ago) the best answer for me.
Re: K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers
#29A recent thread about a similar product: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24004588 Personally, I think just those limits make this a non-starter for me. 30 resources per topic over 250 topics is a total of just 7.5k links, which is nothing. Charging $19.99 a year for that (and that's introductory pricing!) is insanity, especially when there's free bookmarking tools, some of which are even open source or self host…
I'm working on yet another alternative, which we're about to launch:
https://www.tefter.io/teams/free-trial
We charge 39$/month flat, no limitations on the number of users, links, lists.
The domain of bookmarking is definitely crowded, but we're focusing providing a solution where you forget you're dealing with bookmarks. With our browser extension, you can quickly jump between tabs, search you history and bookmarks either personal or your team's. There's also support for golinks style shortcuts, full-text search, a Slack app and even a cli app written in Elixir!
Re: K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers
#30Has anyone a good open source, self hosted alternative of this? Since I don't know any, I was thinking of starting something like this at some point. Something to save interesting bookmarks/lightweight media (gifs, memes, ...) or even small blog articles. Make it federated, with some full text search feature ala elastic search but more lightweight, with a reddit like interface.
I just use a folder with (text) files. E.g. if you call them keyword1-...-keywordN you can `find` for keywords and `grep` for content and put in everything you want. You could also use subfolders for topics. I don't see what K-Stash offers more.
I mean the whole point of this is to have a crawler who look for the texts in your links, index them, then you can search a link when you just vaguely remember something the page in question mentioned.