Comment by tokamak-teapot | Hacker News Reader

Comment by tokamak-teapot | Hacker News Reader

My general use of Pinboard goes like this:

Several times a day: Bookmark a thing (usually marked as 'unread').

Every week or so: Look back at my unread bookmarks. Read, or just mark read because I want to keep a bookmark but I don't want to actually read.

A few times a month: Use Pinboard to look something up that I remember seeing, or I don't - but hope I did actually come across already. Full text search helps here.

I wonder if Maciej would consider getting some browser extensions and mobile apps developed? I've probably paid the same for apps over the years as I have for Pinboard itself [1], and they've generally been terrible.

I'm certainly willing to pay more than I already am for Pinboard if it comes with some decent tools. Something like Promnesia [2] and note taking being integrated would make it the tool I use the most all day, so this would be well worth it.

[1] I'm a paying Pinboard user since 2011 and have been paying for full-text indexing since it became available.

[2] https://beepb00p.xyz/promnesia.html

There's new browser extensions on the resources page. They're simple but they do the job.

Thanks for responding. I’m the author of a Pinboard browser extension! I’d love to make it full featured, not simple, but don’t have the time.

Others I’ve used just get abandoned too, and as you mention perhaps the API is what’s holding them back.

The reason I thought your own client(s) may be on your todo list is that developing a great API is easier when you’re dogfooding.

I hate the phrase dogfooding. Who on earth eats dog food?

I don't really understand the need for an app vs. a website that works well on mobile (my current project). Since many people like standalone apps, I'm clearly missing something, and would love to understand better what the advantages are there.

Re: dogfooding - The word nice apparently comes the latin word for ignorant but do you mind if someone says you're a really nice guy?

It's not a problem that comes up a lot

(author of Promnesia here)

In fact I do have my pinboard as one of the data sources! Although it's running against the raw json export, rather than a specific module at the moment. Something like this:

    PINBOARD = Source(
        auto.index,
        last('/data/pinboard/bookmarks*.json'),
        name='pinboard',
    )

Now that my HPI (https://github.com/karlicoss/HPI) thing has Pinboard support, I guess makes sense to add a proper module to Promnesia... I'll get to it one day unless someone else wants to give it a go

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