K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers
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To make it worse, none of them are better than pen and paper. I want the ability, from my desktop to clip sections of pages, capture pages, annotate them, etc. I want to have the same experience on phone and tablet whether iOS, Android, or a mixture thereof. I want to annotate with notes, that I want to remain as handwritten notes, but be legitimately OCRed for the purpose of search. I don't want to click anything to make this happen; on a tablet this means just write and go. Rocketbook is the closest I've gotten to that, and it was still unbelievably far away from the goal set.
So now, I'm back to pen, paper, and OneNote. I hate it - but it's currently (and not two months ago) the best answer for me.
I just tried to start the app after reading your comment and apparently I have to log in or something and I have no idea how to do that. It was such a cool idea that it's a shame that it never quite got its act together.
Admittedly, with the android share button, it's not really that useful, though I love it.
Personally, I think just those limits make this a non-starter for me. 30 resources per topic over 250 topics is a total of just 7.5k links, which is nothing. Charging $19.99 a year for that (and that's introductory pricing!) is insanity, especially when there's free bookmarking tools, some of which are even open source or self hosted.
E: Some less similar alternatives:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24199419
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19346985
I'm not affiliated with any of the alternatives I've listed.
Have a good day!
Doing the math here, for you to make a starter engineering salary off this project, you'd need to hit $10,000/month - which would mean around 40,000 paying basic users or 12,000 paying pro users.
If this hits the front page you'd maybe get around 50,000 hits to the site - which means your conversion needs to be around 80% (for Basic).
Whereas if you had a free plan and a pro plan that was $25/month - you'd only need 400 people. Which is a conversion of 8% from this particular traffic source.
Your call, but I think lower prices these days speak to me as the developer not being all-in on their particular product - even if you are, it's just the optics of it.
If I really need this, you can bet I'd pay $25/month for it.
The Roam Research guys do a good job at this, even if their product is not yet at 90% refinement, just the fact that they are willing to charge a higher price makes me believe they will actually put the work into it to make it better. There are students and researchers that do NOT want to bother with storing the files to build that graph, hooking up VSCode with a graph-editor addon (there are many), all they want is a thing that does what it says it does. And they pay well for it.
https://www.tefter.io/teams/free-trial
We charge 39$/month flat, no limitations on the number of users, links, lists.
The domain of bookmarking is definitely crowded, but we're focusing providing a solution where you forget you're dealing with bookmarks. With our browser extension, you can quickly jump between tabs, search you history and bookmarks either personal or your team's. There's also support for golinks style shortcuts, full-text search, a Slack app and even a cli app written in Elixir!
Um wow. Does anyone actually pay that price?
The teams one, we are about to launch, hopefully people won't find it expensive, given that golinks for example, charges $3.99 per user per month.
So, with our /go command in the browser extension, all the golinks are listed and the user can use the autocomplete to find they one they need.
I stash my useful links in Asana. For those who haven't used it, Asana is like a big, organized to-do list. Each link I want to keep becomes an Asana task. I can organize them the Asana way, using tags or projects (task lists), or I can just put useful words in the description so I can search for them later.
Asana probably wasn't built for this use case, but it works pretty darn well. My most important workflow is being able to send the current webpage I'm reading to Asana using just a few taps, and Asana supports that easily -- the official Chrome extension is specifically for doing this, and the Asana apps support the Android and iOS share integrations.
In addition -- and this is important too -- I feel pretty confident that Asana (and thus my data) will still be around in 5-10 years. I'm not sure if I can say that about almost all of its competitors.
Note: I'm not affiliated with Asana. I'm familiar with Asana because I used it at work, but other to-do apps might also work for bookmarking. If you have one in mind, let me know in the replies!
Since I don't know any, I was thinking of starting something like this at some point.
Something to save interesting bookmarks/lightweight media (gifs, memes, ...) or even small blog articles. Make it federated, with some full text search feature ala elastic search but more lightweight, with a reddit like interface.
Then I sync it all into my NAS via WebDAV.
keyword1-...-keywordN
you can `find` for keywords and `grep` for content and put in everything you want. You could also use subfolders for topics.
I don't see what K-Stash offers more.
Here's the link https://github.com/Uzay-G/archivy
Small cleanup every now and then.
Can't recall where something is? Grep it.
Free/Basic/Pro gives you 15/40/130 resources per topic.
I would routinely use the maximum for even simple pieces of research and 130 feels like way too small a limit.
I would honestly expect to see those limits tripled at least.
I know that's a bit of a downer take, and maybe I should just not hang out on HN with this attitude, but I really wonder if I'm that alone with this opinion...? It's the same issue I have with roam research, the same issue I had with Mendeley.
Once that guarantee is gone, I no longer have any incentive to pay money or even use the service. I'd rather invest time and effort into hosting a tool myself, on infrastructure and hardware I control, choosing when and if to upgrade on my own terms.
Sycophants are numerous everywhere else.
No restriction on "topics" or "maps" or anything. Fully free to use.
It's a pretty unsolved aspect
I wrote a chrome extension for natural language searching of bookmarks a while ago (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmark-search/fc...), I like your grouping of topics though (so you can see everything in the topic, not just the search results).
I don't really understand the comments complaining about the pricing; there's a free version, or the paid versions are really not that expensive. If I find myself wanting something more than bookmarks for links, $3/$10 a year seems fine to me for the productivity gain.
I've now been using Diigo for over three years now; it's been reliable, its feature set feels very complete, works well, and they seem to have a sustainable business model based on subscription plans e.g. I consider the $40 p/a I pay for standard somewhat of a bargain.
Always interested in new shineys, but what is K-Stash's unique value proposition vs Diigo?