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Show HN: Extension for saving articles, videos etc. to personal online library

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Hello everyone,

We made an extension for organizing tab mess in our browser. We wanted our browsers without dozens of tabs.

Here's what you can do with extension and online library.

You can save articles, videos and more to your online library (Click the heart icon)

You can create collections to organize your tabs (eg. best repos and resources for Go)

You can search them on your library

You can share those collection with community and friends.

You can create learning paths, newsletters, favs lists with your collections.

You can discover hand-picked curated lists of other users. (If they are public)

Waiting for your thoughts, what do you think?

This seems really useful. I especially like the idea of learning paths that can be shared with others.

Thank you!

We hope this becomes something useful. We're trying but there is some obstacles (like in everything else, not complaining about it).

Do you have any suggestion for us?

Here’s my 2 cents. There are already experts who have compiled lists of great, free online resources in different fields (but they’re just a list of links). You can convert those lists into content-rich learning paths on your platform and give credit to the original list creator. That might give you some momentum, at least around the learning path feature. I would also try to replicate some elements of MOOC websites, such as progression bars and notifications that show your progress on a learning path. Maybe even allow for the creation of simple quizzes. Give a simple badge for completing a learning path - it would be generic by default, but the creator of the learning path would be able to customize the badge associated with its completion. There’s so much great info on the web that doesn’t get used enough, and even the lists that pull it all together don’t get enough attention.

There’s room for this to become more than a plug-in. Your service can become a crowdsourcing platform for aggregated knowledge curation.

Awesome thank you for sharing all these with us. I really like the badge idea, we can also let user to create their own goals. For instance, someone can say I want to consume 15 resources this week and we can create badges for it.

Yeah I like the idea. Thanks for sharing with us. Is there any request you want to make, we can build that.

Hey could you give us a small hint about how can we find those already compiled lists? :)

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