Show HN: Oh, hi Mark – Bookmark for chrome with instant search
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Oh, hi Mark! was born :-)
I would be more than happy, if sometimes you share the same feeling, that you gave it a try. I hope it will eventually help other people like me.
By the way, nice The Room reference. I could hear Tommy Wiseau's voice in my head when I read it.
I did a search and gave a try to Pocket. It's a nice app but not quite what I was looking for. I wanted something blazing fast and extremely simple to use.
For example, to retrieve a page in Pocket, you have to open the app (at least 1 click, probably 2 for most people), click the search icon, type your request. This was way too much for me. With Oh, hi Mark!, you press alt+O and type your request. You can even navigate to one of the result without removing your hands from the keyboard with navigation and enter keys. I think it's actually the fastest way to get to the result.
Another thing about Pocket, it only searches in the title apparently. Oh, hi Mark! indexes quite smartly what he can find on the page, giving different weights to the different strings extracted. This gives the search function way better results I believe.
All in all, Oh, hi Mark! is far from being as mature as Pocket, but I have a feeling it has its place in the hearts of the users preferring a simplicity/ease-of-use solution compared to a more feature-complete one :-)