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Comment by ankimal | Hacker News Reader

Interesting idea. Some quick questions:

- How much data do you store per user?

- How do I delete certain results? (preferably after the search comes back)

- Another thing to consider is - After how much time does this just become as painful as finding that page through a search engine?

- What version of the page gets stored? The latest or the one that I saw?

I guess its one step better than Evernoting a page and adding tags myself.

Good luck!

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Main issue with Evernoting and Bookmarking is that it requires an effort to say that today, this page is useful and I want to store it. Most pages I want to find are very things I did not think was useful at the time. Each unique page(unique as per the content) is stored per user. Our goal is to build the tools needed to find the information quickly, similiar to what hipmunk.com did for airline search. We have the added dimension of time to use.

The main thing I use bookmarks for is categorisation. If you add the ability to tag and/or add notes that becomes part of the search terms, that'd be the killer feature for me - I could throw out my 3500 bookmarks and remove Xmarks (at least if we could get a way of automatically getting our existing bookmarks installed).

I'm a paying Xmarks user, but if you were to add a way of tagging sites or adding a note, I'd happily pay for this instead. Just a freeform text field that I could add some keywords into that gets treated as part of the search would actually be sufficient for me.

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