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Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.

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Re: Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.

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Post by bwm »

pie wrote: post #31
bwm wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

URLs uniquely identify bookmarks, if two chromes have a bookmark with the same URL but different titles/tags, stashmarks will show whichever was synced first.

Right - I'm finding that this behavior (or something related to identification) makes it finnicky to update title/tags, and changes I make in the browser don't always seem to apply, even after resetting the connection. If I edit a URL, stashmarks doesn't reflect the change in the UI, at least when the original is still pending download. Looks like it's actually changed internally. Also, I can't delete (or edit) a boo…

Thanks for the feedback, it's very helpful. We're aware that there are still a couple of quirks with the extension. We'll try to get some management in the web app soon. In the meantime if you're still having problems, feel free to mail us at support@mech.io.

Re: Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.

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Post by bwm »

dmmalam wrote: post #47

Awesome works guys! It's a shame that I stopped using bookmarks years ago, cos I could usually google the result much quicker. Though this UI might change that! Will deffo try it out! Any thoughts on twitter favs, which a lot of users (including me) misuse as a booking marking service.

Thanks! No plans yet, but there is an API which you can use to post bookmarks to.

Re: Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.

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Post by slewis »

Definitely awesome. I'm surprised that all of my bookmarks say "This bookmark is being indexed". Surely you've already indexed a lot of them as they probably overlap with other Hacker News users. Do you index every bookmark for every user or can you detect dupes?

Re: Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.

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Post by lkesteloot »

idm wrote: post #36
bwm wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand your concern, and to be honest we thought about this a lot when making the product. The reason we upload your bookmarks to our server is so that we can download the html, index it and display excerpts in the timeline. For further information, you can read our privacy policy here: http://stashmarks.com/privacy

Thanks for your reply; I suspected as much. Well, I hope there aren't too many people like myself who will be turned off by the account creation step. However, I'm going to have to sit out this round until a decentralized option is available from you guys. Nice product, all the same!

I installed the extension, saw the account creation form, and uninstalled the extension. I agree, I don't need another server somewhere downloading the pages I bookmark. Some of them are even on the intranet at work. Could this work entirely within the extension? Or could I opt out of the HTML-search feature and use the other features?

Re: Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.

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Post by richardw »

bwm wrote: post #29
idm wrote: post #28

This looks really nice, but I'd like to hear what the account is required for. I'm not happy with the idea of another third-party having a peek inside my bookmarks. Maybe accounts shouldn't be strictly required, but would permit a fuller range of service? At any rate, I've hit a brick wall, because I am hesitant to go any further.

I understand your concern, and to be honest we thought about this a lot when making the product. The reason we upload your bookmarks to our server is so that we can download the html, index it and display excerpts in the timeline. For further information, you can read our privacy policy here: http://stashmarks.com/privacy

I stopped installing at the request for "your data on all websites". I didn't see anything in the privacy policy that explains why and how far "my data" travels. Could you explain that a bit more?

Otherwise I'd love to try it out - I periodically bemoan the suckiness of bookmarks.

Re: Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.

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Post by bambax »

bwm wrote: post #29
idm wrote: post #28

This looks really nice, but I'd like to hear what the account is required for. I'm not happy with the idea of another third-party having a peek inside my bookmarks. Maybe accounts shouldn't be strictly required, but would permit a fuller range of service? At any rate, I've hit a brick wall, because I am hesitant to go any further.

I understand your concern, and to be honest we thought about this a lot when making the product. The reason we upload your bookmarks to our server is so that we can download the html, index it and display excerpts in the timeline. For further information, you can read our privacy policy here: http://stashmarks.com/privacy

I don't care about privacy, but I hate to register and give out my email address if I don't feel it's absolutely necessary to use the product (and if it is, then only if I need the product will I register).

I'm not sure why I hate registering so much (yet another password to remember (or the risk of using the same password on all websites)? or is it completely irrational?) -- but I do, and I guess I'm not the only one.

Re: Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.

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Post by cskau »

SkyMarshal wrote: post #56

Cool idea, chrome/ium bookmark manager is definitely a pain point. But I can't tell, is this a local extension, or does it upload bookmarks and stuff to your server?

Exactly my concern. But judging from some of the other comments it is indeed uploading your bookmarks.

I'm sorry to say, but I consider bookmarks slightly private, and I wouldn't want just any company to look over my shoulder and read all the pages I bookmark.

While the product seems awesome I'm going to have to pass.

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