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The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by jakub_g »

aduitsis wrote: post #41
jakub_g wrote: post #36

I just wanted to add that in modern browsers you can bookmark with 0 mouse clicks. Just CTRL+D it. In Firefox it additionally focuses the "Tags" field which I find awesome. I was skeptical initially towards tags, but it's much easier to tag stuff with a brain dump of keywords coming to my mind, than to nicely put it into some hierarchical structure. The latter never worked for me. The challenge is to manage synonymou…

Can you confirm that Firefox sync handles the tags correctly? I've had great luck with xmarks, which correctly syncs the tags. But I'd like to know that there is always an alternative for a feature that I've come to depend so much on.

I haven't used Firefox Sync actually so I can't tell.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by fmoralesc »

jakub_g wrote: post #36

I just wanted to add that in modern browsers you can bookmark with 0 mouse clicks. Just CTRL+D it. In Firefox it additionally focuses the "Tags" field which I find awesome. I was skeptical initially towards tags, but it's much easier to tag stuff with a brain dump of keywords coming to my mind, than to nicely put it into some hierarchical structure. The latter never worked for me. The challenge is to manage synonymou…

Using vimperator, it takes an 'a' to bookmark anything. And using scripts,[1] I can bookmark things in kippt pressing 'A'.

[1]: http://code.google.com/p/vimperator-labs/issues/detail?id=78...

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by porker »

pinchyfingers wrote: post #50

Pinboard.in FTW 1. I use the bookmarklet to add bookmarks 2. I write a short description for the bookmark 3. I click on one of my existing tags or add a new one 4. The Pinboard organize tool shows a preview of the content so I can edit bookmarks quickly 5. Automatically archives my retweets and links posted to Twitter 6. Let's me have private and public bookmarks Just sayin' for me bookmarking is a solved problem. Pe…

What are Pinboard's tag management tools like? Can I merge tags together?

Does it show the number of items tagged with a tag when tagging a new item? I found that v useful until Delicious removed it (often I enter synonyms by accident, and this helps me control my tag vocabulary)

Without a trial of Pinboard it's very hard to answer these questions...

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by spladow »

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…

Google doesn't always find the thing I want, at least in the context of a bookmark, which is something specific that I want to return to. When I consult my bookmarks it's not necessarily to remember the broad strokes of a story, it's to read someone's take or even a specific line from an article that I only vaguely remember now that some time has passed, but suspect was really good. Sometimes Google gets me what I want, but often there are similar stories from larger sources that trump what I'm looking for.

Sometimes I feel like going back through things I liked (or have been meaning to read for a while) about a certain topic in bulk, so bookmarks with tags are nice. Querying Google to show me everything I've thought looked interesting about [x] won't work.

Sometimes you want something that isn't up anymore. Google has cached pages for lots of stuff but not everything. Pinboard will keep a copy of everything I bookmark.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by webwanderings »

aduitsis wrote: post #41
jakub_g wrote: post #36

I just wanted to add that in modern browsers you can bookmark with 0 mouse clicks. Just CTRL+D it. In Firefox it additionally focuses the "Tags" field which I find awesome. I was skeptical initially towards tags, but it's much easier to tag stuff with a brain dump of keywords coming to my mind, than to nicely put it into some hierarchical structure. The latter never worked for me. The challenge is to manage synonymou…

Can you confirm that Firefox sync handles the tags correctly? I've had great luck with xmarks, which correctly syncs the tags. But I'd like to know that there is always an alternative for a feature that I've come to depend so much on.

Bookmarking with Firefox is propriety. You won't be able to take your stuff out easily to another browser and/or do inter-operate. Firefox tags are just Firefox' tags.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by webwanderings »

pinchyfingers wrote: post #50

Pinboard.in FTW 1. I use the bookmarklet to add bookmarks 2. I write a short description for the bookmark 3. I click on one of my existing tags or add a new one 4. The Pinboard organize tool shows a preview of the content so I can edit bookmarks quickly 5. Automatically archives my retweets and links posted to Twitter 6. Let's me have private and public bookmarks Just sayin' for me bookmarking is a solved problem. Pe…

IMHO, it makes no sense to pay to bookmark other people's websites/URLs. As a least minimum, you can keep your bookmarks to yourself in your own browser. It is however another matter if you are paying to acquire additional features which your browser doesn't provide by default.

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by phreanix »

porker wrote: post #53
pinchyfingers wrote: post #50

Pinboard.in FTW 1. I use the bookmarklet to add bookmarks 2. I write a short description for the bookmark 3. I click on one of my existing tags or add a new one 4. The Pinboard organize tool shows a preview of the content so I can edit bookmarks quickly 5. Automatically archives my retweets and links posted to Twitter 6. Let's me have private and public bookmarks Just sayin' for me bookmarking is a solved problem. Pe…

What are Pinboard's tag management tools like? Can I merge tags together? Does it show the number of items tagged with a tag when tagging a new item ? I found that v useful until Delicious removed it (often I enter synonyms by accident, and this helps me control my tag vocabulary) Without a trial of Pinboard it's very hard to answer these questions...

I believe that's explained here:

http://pinboard.in/tour/#manage

note: I don't use pinboard myself but I looked around after seeing OP's rec

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by spladow »

porker wrote: post #53
pinchyfingers wrote: post #50

Pinboard.in FTW 1. I use the bookmarklet to add bookmarks 2. I write a short description for the bookmark 3. I click on one of my existing tags or add a new one 4. The Pinboard organize tool shows a preview of the content so I can edit bookmarks quickly 5. Automatically archives my retweets and links posted to Twitter 6. Let's me have private and public bookmarks Just sayin' for me bookmarking is a solved problem. Pe…

What are Pinboard's tag management tools like? Can I merge tags together? Does it show the number of items tagged with a tag when tagging a new item ? I found that v useful until Delicious removed it (often I enter synonyms by accident, and this helps me control my tag vocabulary) Without a trial of Pinboard it's very hard to answer these questions...

I don't think it shows the number, but it does make suggestions from the list of tags you've already used. If you type out your tags manually it uses autocomplete so you don't end up with typos or fragmenting your stuff with minor variations (like making something plural half the time).

Re: The Ultimate Bookmarking Tool Is Finally Here

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Post by randomchars »

dragdis wrote: post #5

With Pocket, Kippt, Evernote to collect stuff in a organised fashion is 4-5 clicks. With dragdis it's 1 drag&drop! So main thing - simplicity

I cringe every single time I see you mention the amount of click needed to save something. It's really annoying. If that's the only thing you do better than the competition then you need to rethink this.

Something else: I think positioning yourself against pocket is a bad idea. They're two different products. Pocket doesn't try to be a reference/long term bookmarking product, but a read-it-later type one. It even started with that name.

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