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Show HN: BookmarkOS – an online desktop for keeping your bookmarks organized

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Hi Hacker News, BookmarkOS is an online desktop for organizing, sorting, and browsing your bookmarks. Quick origin, I eventually gave up trying to keep my Chrome bookmarks organized and started dragging urls to my desktop and discovered that using a GUI is a great way to manage bookmarks.

For example, can't find a bookmark you opened last week? Click 'View all' and sort by last opened. Also, for me, it's easier to find a bookmark by visualizing where it is versus having to guess with search or tags. And browsing my bookmarks on BookmarkOS is a new habit that I never did before. I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback on the site. Also, the site is currently on Product Hunt!

Cheers, Dave

+1. I wrote a poor man's cmdline bookmark manager myself - Buku (https://github.com/jarun/Buku).

Cool! It would be awesome if you could have the SQLite3 database file backed up somehow

personally I use Dropbox for that.

Is the backup automated?

As long as you are using Dropbox you can create a symbolic link to the original DB file.

Oh, cool!

... Or you could use the excellent Bookmark Manager for Chrome, by Google: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmark-manager/g...

Or you could support an independent developer for what looks like a superior solution.

Very nice. I am considering giving it a serious try but an important "feature" to me is the ability to export bookmarks in order to avoid vendor lock-in. Any plans for that?

Export is important. You can do that now in Settings.

Cheers!

nice! it would be really cool if I could not only save the url, but the content of the page as well. I say that because I've saved many sites to disk because links break and mirroring those between machines is annoying.

Thanks for the feedback! This will likely end up a Pro feature in the future with the ability to search the page content as well.

Looking great! Fits my needs!

Although $6 (for now) isn't much but I'm a little afraid you might go out of business? You have long term plans to keep this running?

I'll never go out of business. I'm a full stack web dev, so it doesn't cost me much to keep it running. Plus, I really want this site for myself, so I'll never let it go away!

I'd pay money if there was browser sync. Looks nice though.

Can you please specify what exact thing would make you want to keep using bookmarks in your browser? Is it the convenience of the browser save that you like?

Take these "I'd buy if..." comments with a grain of salt. Some people are simply not interested yet will grasp at any excuse not to buy.

Congratulations on making this fantastic app!

Thanks for the support!

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