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Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by akirk »

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.

Even though thinkery's (http://thinkery.me/) main purpose is not storing bookmarks it handles quite a few of the points that you list well. check it out.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by urza »

I have two levels of bookmarking:

Very fast - bookmarking in chrome.. just one click, I bookmark everything into one folder named as current year (so 2013 now). I have chrome profile synced on all my computers. This way I bookmark things that "are kind of interesting and I might want to see it later (but probably not)"

More important stuff - delicious.. requieres me to type some description and tags, which also means that I put there things that I really want to come back to later

The only thing I am missing from delicious is saving the content of the bookmark and making it searchable..

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by mseebach »

DanBC wrote: post #20
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.

I have no disagreement with these points, my point is that they're competing against a straw man. This leaves me with the question; what do they actually do different from their actual competition? When leave me to speculate that they're just another social bookmarking clone, bringing little new to the table.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by DanBC »

Swizec wrote: post #18

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…

An English MP was caught in the expenses scandal. That MP was facing heavy criticism in the press for some of the things they had claimed for.

To respond better to the press this MP paid for public relations training.

The MP then claimed for the PR training on expenses.

I read about this in a national UK newspaper. (Either the Telegraph, or the Independent, or the Grauniad.)

I cannot find the name of the MP or the story.

Web searching doesn't always work.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by Swizec »

DanBC wrote: post #24
Swizec wrote: post #18

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…

An English MP was caught in the expenses scandal. That MP was facing heavy criticism in the press for some of the things they had claimed for. To respond better to the press this MP paid for public relations training. The MP then claimed for the PR training on expenses. I read about this in a national UK newspaper. (Either the Telegraph, or the Independent, or the Grauniad.) I cannot find the name of the MP or the st…

You mean the first hit for googling "telegraph MP expense scandal" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/9815...

It's about "The police have re-opened their enquiry into the former MP Denis MacShane after he admitted submitting fake receipts to claim expenses.", which sounds a lot like your story.

So I'm guessing the guy you're looking for is Denis McShane.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by DanBC »

Swizec wrote: post #25
DanBC wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An English MP was caught in the expenses scandal. That MP was facing heavy criticism in the press for some of the things they had claimed for. To respond better to the press this MP paid for public relations training. The MP then claimed for the PR training on expenses. I read about this in a national UK newspaper. (Either the Telegraph, or the Independent, or the Grauniad.) I cannot find the name of the MP or the st…

You mean the first hit for googling "telegraph MP expense scandal" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/9815... It's about "The police have re-opened their enquiry into the former MP Denis MacShane after he admitted submitting fake receipts to claim expenses.", which sounds a lot like your story. So I'm guessing the guy you're looking for is Denis McShane.

No, but thanks for playing.

Specifically, there is no mention in that report of expenses claimed for public relations training.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by matthiaswh »

urza wrote: post #22

I have two levels of bookmarking: Very fast - bookmarking in chrome.. just one click, I bookmark everything into one folder named as current year (so 2013 now). I have chrome profile synced on all my computers. This way I bookmark things that "are kind of interesting and I might want to see it later (but probably not)" More important stuff - delicious.. requieres me to type some description and tags, which also means…

Several options do this, I think all of them paid. Diigo, Historious, and many people here on HN swear by Pinboard.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by Wilya »

Swizec wrote: post #18

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…

> no links are ever broken.

I'd take my broken links over Google's "Did you mean..." any time. Practically speaking, except for constantly recommended stuff, Google's memory doesn't go more than a year or so back in the past, unless you know very precisely what you are looking for (at the very least, title and author of stuff).

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by deeqkah »

What i found most interesting about this is the slimmed down nature of what you collect. In the video, when you showed the grid of things you've collected... it was really appealing.

I think the real strength of this would be in it's technical implementation; how not-annoying is it in my browser, is it resource heavy, how can i adjust it etc, and then the community around it.

Which is where i think there would have to be some real differences between Pinterest. If you give the user the option to share (or not!) what he/she has collected with other people (perhaps a dedicated page), and played with the idea of how users could interact with each other ("This is what Julie collected on Tuesday," - then i think this idea could have even more potential than it already does.

Good luck to you folks. As i said this is really interesting.

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