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Re: Raindrop.io – Smart Bookmarks

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Post by feelthesun »

ishansharma wrote: post #6

I already use Pinboard and it works well for my needs. What differentiates this from Pinboard? And of course, how is it going to make money?

I don't have pinboard, but i believe some of the differences are:

It gives screenshots, It saves content for later and it's an official Opera extension (pinboard doesn't have an official one).

Edit: Raindrop.io also let's you save the content of video. That's a pretty handy feature pinboard and dragdis don't have. I don't know of anyone else that has it.

Re: Raindrop.io – Smart Bookmarks

#42

Post by yardie »

lazyjones wrote: post #36
yardie wrote: post #29

This is great! I've got 40 tabs open in firefox and my browser is straining under the pressure. A lot of them is research for work (servers, services, reviews). Some of it I don't care to bookmark. And some of it I'd like to read at home but have no way to get it there except emailing the link to myself.

Um... Just drag the URLs from the location bar to your Dropbox/Wuala explorer window and click on them later?

Um, some of us like to keep work on the work PC and home on the home PC. If I install Dropbox at work work now has access to my things at home.

Re: Raindrop.io – Smart Bookmarks

#43

Post by shock »

toni wrote: post #40
warmbytes wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For that case you may use a bookmark manager. For an open-source self-hosted one, check Shaarli : https://github.com/sebsauvage/Shaarli

I have developed a much much simpler variation for myself which is actually nothing more than a personal clone from old school del.icio.us: http://i.imgur.com/7jnTyvC.png I use it now for almost 5 years and have more than 10 thousands bookmarks in it. If there is any interest, I will put it up on Github.

Thanks, I'd love to take a look at it!

Re: Raindrop.io – Smart Bookmarks

#44

Post by cpayne624 »

mgkimsal wrote: post #34
baby wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used dragdis and/or evernote before that. I'm gonna try this new thing but I'm scared it will be like the others and just become a place where I put things I'll never read. * I like it better than dragdis, you don't have to drag anything to save it! Which is a pain on a laptop. * It's too hidden and like other of its kind I might forget about it and never read what I put there.

2 things I'd like to see in a bookmarking service. 1. Have it email me nightly or weekly recapping what I've bookmarked. 2. At some point (perhaps in the recap) show me if any of my friends have also bookmarked the same thing (perhaps from Facebook or g+ graph data). I could live without #2, and might want to opt-out - there are some things I bookmark I wouldn't want other people knowing about, but some things I woul…

" Have it email me nightly or weekly recapping what I've bookmarked."

Yes, yes, yes please.

Re: Raindrop.io – Smart Bookmarks

#45

Post by gk1 »

baby wrote: post #31
yardie wrote: post #29

This is great! I've got 40 tabs open in firefox and my browser is straining under the pressure. A lot of them is research for work (servers, services, reviews). Some of it I don't care to bookmark. And some of it I'd like to read at home but have no way to get it there except emailing the link to myself.

I used dragdis and/or evernote before that. I'm gonna try this new thing but I'm scared it will be like the others and just become a place where I put things I'll never read. * I like it better than dragdis, you don't have to drag anything to save it! Which is a pain on a laptop. * It's too hidden and like other of its kind I might forget about it and never read what I put there.

> "...a place where I put things I'll never read."

Bingo. I stopped using bookmarking services after finally admitting this to myself.

I also had this nagging feeling from having a list of "to read" links that I never read -- like having a long list of "to dos" that you never get around to doing, it makes you feel bad.

And whenever I did make the time to read some of these things, they were disappointingly insignificant.

Re: Raindrop.io – Smart Bookmarks

#46

Post by gk1 »

andrewl-hn wrote: post #27
ishansharma wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Plus, the Chrome extension displays hover text in Russian. http://www.evernote.com/shard/s27/sh/9510a5b2-4910-46c4-b52f...

Raindrop outsources some of their development to Ukraine. Perhaps, someone left ` ` somewhere. Many IDEs and editors use system language inside their HTML templates by default. I think, WebStorm does it, maybe some others. In addition, many companies like Facebook offer localized versions of SDK downloads and Widget scripts. Thus, when a developer somewhere in China downloads the SDK and puts the tags on their page,…

> "Raindrop outsources some of their development to Ukraine."

What makes you say this?

Their Twitter account is mostly in Russian, and its location listed as St. Petersburg (Russia).

Re: Raindrop.io – Smart Bookmarks

#47

Post by toni »

shock wrote: post #43
toni wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have developed a much much simpler variation for myself which is actually nothing more than a personal clone from old school del.icio.us: http://i.imgur.com/7jnTyvC.png I use it now for almost 5 years and have more than 10 thousands bookmarks in it. If there is any interest, I will put it up on Github.

Thanks, I'd love to take a look at it!

Great, I'll brush it up this weekend and will put it on Github. Do you have an email? How can i let you know?

Re: Raindrop.io – Smart Bookmarks

#49

Post by joshstrange »

antr wrote: post #22

When I upload my html bookmark file, Raindrop shows all of the folders within the file, but when I click on import all I get told that I have no bookmarks. Something seems to be broken.

I'm seeing this after uploading my bookmarks:

>> We unfortunately have not finished processing your bookmarks uploaded earlier! Please wait more, we will notify you at the specified E-mail. [0]

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/s/opk0jvuvjbssc8s/Screenshot%202014-...

Re: Raindrop.io – Smart Bookmarks

#50

Post by joshstrange »

terminalcommand wrote: post #48

Unfortunately, the app on iOS works only in Russian. But other than that cool site! Ux is amazing, the images are sharp and the domain is solid.

Yeah, I just downloaded the iOS app and while I was able to guess login/signup links the login link doesn't have an option for authenticating with google (Which is what I used to sign up).
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