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The future beyond bookmarking - Welcome to new Kippt

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I have been using the new version for a few months , it's awesome! Definitely give this a try.

If you follow interesting people, then you no longer need to read news or tech blogs; all the good content magically falls into your inbox. I love this more than any RSS.

I am Kippt.com/kirill , if you want to say hi.

Completely agree. I've been using Kippt for a few months as well and it's already become my favorite news discovery engine.

Just in time. I was about to switch over to Dragdis but these thumbnails are bringing me back. I have tried zoo tool gimmie bar, mustache, delicious, evernote and xmarks, but Kippt is the only one I have have used for more than 6 months. The tags and collections put Kippt at number one in my book.

I almost love it. It has everything to be loved. Except a hierarchical structure for links, like bookmark folders. I can't organize hundreds of links just with lists, because in the best situation I get dozens of lists with a dozen links in each, which isn't really good organization. :/

Requests: - Integration with Feedly (my Feedly saves go to Kippt) - Integration with Delicious (or however you spell it) - Tag completion based on most-used tags - I use Reddit Enhancement Suite. It would be cool if somehow you could make it so Kippt can save RES inline images s.t. I don't have to click the Imgur link to bookmark the image, if that makes sense

I've tried out so many (great) bookmarking and news aggregator services over the past couple months that I now need a bookmarking aggregator to aggregate the bookmarks from the news aggregators.

The list view works better for articles than the default tile view. I find myself creating two different types of collections: 1. lists of articles (bookmarks), and 2. collection of images (pinterest). Since I use them differently (1 for targeted search, 2 for visual inspiration), the different views work well for their respective purposes.

There is also a little hidden notes feature that lets me write simple mental notes. Good-bye clonky Evernote, too-much-distraction Pinterest, and out-of-sync browse bookmarks. Kippt FTW!

My conscience doesn't allow me to give "my bookmarks" to anyone. I'd rather keep it to myself in my browser, safe and secured, moving with me through its sync feature, wherever I go. If you want me to use your service, I'd rather you provide a sync service instead which will guarantee that my bookmarks would be with me today as they are five minutes ago, or five months ago. The web is better off not using more of the propriety stuff.

Sorry, nothing personal against Kippt which is a fine service, but I am no longer moved by new features or nice looking UIs.

You're obviously aiming for a more design-focused crowd, but why I've stuck to pinboard.in for so long is because I don't want the primary display of my bookmarks to be a gallery of thumbnails. I'm usually bookmarking interesting articles or essays and the best way for me to sort through those is a good use of tag filters and search...anything else, including images, is just noise.

However, that's different if what you're doing is bookmarking visual elements. But if that's the case, it's hard to be Pinterest.

Why can't we have both?

Sometimes I just want to bookmark a textual article, and Pinterest doesn't let me because it doesn't have an image. I have to manually search for any image on Google Image search, save it to my desktop, upload that as my Pin and edit the url to point to the text-only article I wanted to bookmark.

Other times I want to bookmark something with a thumbnail, so Pinterest or this Kippt would be great, while Chrome's bookmarks, pinboard.in, a text file, would not be great.

I want something that supports both, so I could save all my bookmarks in one place and be able to search for "something from 2-3 days ago" regardless whether it had a picture associated with it or not.

Personally, the most important feature of a bookmarking approach for me right now is the ability to see a timeline of things, most recently added first. Filter by tags, search, etc. second.

Sounds like http://clipboard.com does everything you want.

Cool, but does it have tags/labels too?

Yes, you can put an item into multiple boards (basically, top-level folders), and assign multiple tags in notes #like #this.

I've been using it for a few months and my only real disappointment is the lack of an API.

Kippt designer here. You're right, we use tiles to offer better views for images/videos/other media, but I, and many of our users (like researchers) save lot of text based material, so it's definitely something we want to support.

We already have the "classic" list view [1], and I have plans to improve it in the future, specially if you're doing text based research.

[1]: https://d17f28g3dsa4vh.cloudfront.net/img/press/list-view.jp...

This is part of the reason why I went for a simple display in my self-hosted bookmark archive:

demo: http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/bookmarks/bookmarks.public/ code: https://github.com/skx/bookmarks.public/

Avoiding the use of a central service was too easy after the most recent cancellation of such a service. But storing them locally under revision control is good

I built amazd.com just for that (plus it has a bunch of other features). I was tired of all these visual eye-candy bookmark collection apps. I wanted something nice and simple, textual, and serious (as in no mems, etc). You can check out my profile for a sample: http://amazd.com/ahmad

Your "or register with your email" link does not work. (at least in Opera and Firefox)

I can only speak for myself, but the way I go about bookmarks is:

- Image-based bookmarks: Pinterest

- Everything else: Opera bookmarks (inline search beyond compare)

One of the main allures of using an image-based bookmark site like Pinterest is that link rot won't matter, since I will always have the images I intended to bookmark.

As they say like Sesame Street: "One of these things is not like the other." The two types of bookmark don't really mesh that well.

This is great. I used Snip.it up until Yahoo purchased them and I've been using Pocket to save my articles. This might solve the problem of using two apps. Nice work!

Is there any service like this that would let me not just link to the material I want but actually save the content? or does Kippt do this?

I ask because a while back I started a private blog just for my own eyes where I started saving entire articles I enjoyed reading (in case the links go bad).

http://gimmebar.com does that for you. It saves the page as an image.

Checkout http://www.surfmark.com The bookmarklet saves the entire html and the firefox extension saves the pages as an image

It does much more - but could serve your purpose

https://www.historio.us saves the entire text.

Pinboard does, for $25/year. I've tried to find a self-hosted solution, but haven't been able to do so yet.

Pinboard.in does this too. The site's founder, Maciej Cegłowsk has a nice post comparing Pinboard's archives to other sites': http://blog.pinboard.in/2010/11/bookmark_archives_that_don_t.... (Note: May be out of date.)

With Kippt we want to make the saving easy and fast, so the default is that when you save a page 1) we store the page content to full text search (available for pro users) 2) we get the main image, and try to decide which type of link it is (github repo, website, article, video, image, presentation etc..) and present the clip in the right way in the interface.

We have had also plans for full-page archiving, files and we could support selective saving (save only this paragraph/image).

For now, for example you want to save ab image, just open it to a new tab and save that. With text, just highlight the paragraph and hit the extension and the text will be saved as a note. (You can also make plain markdown notes[1] but we don't have interface in the extension for it yet).

[1]: http://cl.ly/image/382k0p3Y3e1P

This looks awesome - I've probably every similar service out there and I've never found one I'm fully happy with, here's hoping this one is it!

I've been using gimmebar mainly to save full screenshots of web designs I like for inspiration - A way to import those would be awesome! <3

I prefer list view to tiles, but I wish the text wrapped at a more readable width. On a large monitor, reading the small excerpts as a single truncated line isn't the greatest experience.

I don't know how to discover new lists now (only people but I don't care about people only interesting lists). Why was that feature scrapped? Or am I just not finding it?

The old discovery was pretty bad and we decided to focus on launching the essentials first. We're already indexing all our lists and also normalizing links with new Kippt so it's only matter of time once we get some cool discovery tools out again. I hope this explains it.

What is the point of the popup that appears when I click a link? How is this ever better than taking me to the link?

I was thinking the same thing. Its odd that clicking on a bookmark brings this odd popup instead of loading the content I was trying to reach.

How about an Android App? Or at least a "Share" plugin for Android - sorely lacking!

There's couple of 3rd partyAndroid apps already available on Play Market. I also heard few days ago that there will be a new one available within a week which looked pretty sweet based on the screenshots (unfortunately I don't know the name).

Wish it could be my new google reader... but alas, no rss feed input...

(Kippt's developer here)

Polling feeds is quite resource intensive and something we don't really have the resources (mainly the implementation). This is definitely that could be easily implemented with something like Superfeedr and our API - I have been thinking of implementing this as a weekend project.

This is amazing!

Kippt, what I like about you guys is that you never seem to go away. It looks like you're in it for the long haul, with both feet in (to mix metaphors).

I'll give you a try this time!

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