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Show HN: Booky.io – Online bookmark manager

booky.io

39 pointsmotherwhale24 comments

Ok, great, it's another cloud-based bookmark manager. So what?

I mean, what is the difference between this and umpteen other similar services? A better API, better browser integration, what?

I say this constructively, as a perennial mourner of the original del.icio.us, constantly hoping that one day we'll get a service that:

- integrates seamlessly with browsers (at least FF & Chrome)

- provides a solid API for other people to integrate with niche browsers and system

- provides solid syndication and social-sharing features, again integrated with browsers

- makes me actually get back and read a lot of stuff I casually bookmark and never actually get back to.

- makes it easy to prune old bookmarks, tag them, and manage them in flexible ways

- optionally, provides a "snapshot" feature to make sure I never actually get a broken link if I go back to a very old bookmark.

I don't know of any service that satisfies all these requirements yet (although I'm open to suggestions, of course), so I'd be interested in knowing what booky.io aims for.

> I don't know of any service that satisfies all these requirements yet (although I'm open to suggestions, of course)

Former delicious user here too. I use Pinboard [1]. It's not free but has been working great for me for years. Has an API, extensions, bookmarklets, a 'toread' category, public/private bookmarks and really good tagging.

[1]: https://pinboard.in

[ Not affiliated in any way, just a happy user ]

Pinboard has a nice API and "snapshots". There are also numerous native clients and browser extentions to choose from. - https://pinboard.in/

A pretty good native client I use (mac only) - http://bananafishsoftware.com/products/spillo/

Hi, my name is Nico and I'm the creator of booky. What you are describing is an all-in-one service. In germany we call that "Eierlegende Wollmilchsau" :). The aim of booky is a different one. Most of the services out there are overloaded with features. A bookmark is something simple. It's just a link with a name and maybe an icon. We want to focus on managing links and do it good. There are three things that are important to us and that I'd like to point out:

- Mobile support, Performance, Customizability

So why did I create booky.io? I was looking for a web bookmark manager with good mobile support. I'm a frontend developer and I also have high standards in terms of site performance. Most of the services I tested tried to be the ultimate solution (which is okay, some people are looking for that), but I wanted something simpler. I got a lot of feedback from people looking for something similar, so I created booky.io.

Thanks for your feedback and have a nice day! :)

Try Kifi![0] I love it. It has most of the stuff you mentioned - the killer features for me are:

1. easy icon to bookmark any page

2. TAGGING! i can place multiple tags on each thing.

3. full text search across all bookmarked articles!

ability to "follow" and browse other peoples libraries is nice too.

(i'm not affiliated with kifi, just a happy user). [0]www.kifi.com

I'd like to see one that can deal with thousands of bookmarks all in reach, through whatever the developer thinks works. Say it's tags. Say I can write import rules so that all HN posts are tagged HN, then I can search for ruby and check that they are all about the language rather than the gem then tag them ruby.

I have a couple of features likes this with https://stashit.pw but still working to do more with it. Feel free to check it out and drop me a line and I'd be happy to listen to your feedback and others to build the app that people want.

Ok, great, it's another cloud-based bookmark manager. So what?

The market is there. The demand is there. There will be always supply from top, big, small, individuals, big corps...

Snark is not productive. I'm sure he or she would value your grown up feedback.

OP: You should find a credible way to pay for this, and publicize how you're doing it. Online bookmarking especially has seen a lot of services come and go, and people are skittish about putting their bookmarks into a new site with no guarantee they'll stick around.

You may find that having a credible revenue stream actually attracts people to your service.

(Disclaimer: I'm your competitor, but this is sincere advice)

What a noble attitude Maciej!

We've had enough "free" services to know better and pinboard proves your point beautifully.

> booky.io is a private project and therefore completely free of charge. We want to provide a useful service for you and we do not ask for any money.

How do they make money to continue this project? When people use a bookmark service, they want to know if it will be available several years later.

Imported my 2+ MB bookmarks HTML export from Firefox and got

    Oops! An ajax error occured. Please reload the page and try again.

error. (BTW 'Occured' marks my spell-check as error.)

I have a bunch of large bookmarklets and several home-baked dataURI "applications" and even few, erm, documents in base64 there, and 3k+ normal bookmarks, so Iʼm not surprised it didʼt come out well on the first shot.

I see 67 successful under second long ajax request to 'backend.php' and 68th 1s+ with null response. My userID from requests is 273.

Sorry for placing such bugreport in HN thread; other options I found were e-mail (too private) or Disqus on the Help page (too permanent and public).

Btw, IMO HTTPS really should be enforced. If I imagine what data travels over the wires readable for anyone near. I hope I haven't made simpleAuth bookmark…

Hi, thanks for posting this. I can see that you successfully imported ~3000 bookmarks. We have an issue right now with non-latin characters in category/bookmark names. This seems to be the reason for the error you are getting. We are working on a fix!

We applied the fix. Did it solve the problem for you?

Yes, error seems fixed, I see my familiar bookmark mess there now. Few remarks: - mentioned non-ASCII characters in bookmark titles are rendered in fallback font on the page - it seems you are hard trimming URLs to 300 characters. I donʼt think it is a good idea to set such a low limit (not only that it destroyed most of my dataURIs): I guess there are many URLs (with parameters perhaps) out there pleeding to be bookmarked exceeding even 1 KiB limit. To my knowledge, dangerous size for URL is considered around 2 KiB [source:google/SO], but in fact current browsers donʼt care much about the size or have limits around few MiBs.

[source:google/SO]: https://www.google.com/search?q=url+length+limit

Hey, thanks for all your feedback :). We will reconsider the bookmark length limitation.

HTTPS version available, but not enforced automatically yet: https://booky.io/

I use xmarks which is free and cross-browser on PC, unfortunately it's not free on smart phones.

What is the advantage over browser built-in bookmark managers that are also synchronizing with a central database (such as Chrome's built-in bookmark manager)?

If you use a few different browsers, like say Chrome and Firefox this might be handy. Also if you're sitting at someone else's computer, it can be handy to use some bookmarking website.

more bookmark managers online: http://www.eduhub.io/b/social-bookmarking

Good choice renaming from QuickBM.com. Yikes!

Great domain, I think more team oriented features and perhaps integrate with hip chat or asana, in fact a bookmark service geared toward developers might be useful and something teams would pay for.

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