Raindrop.io – Smart Bookmarks
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* I like it better than dragdis, you don't have to drag anything to save it! Which is a pain on a laptop.
* It's too hidden and like other of its kind I might forget about it and never read what I put there.
1. Have it email me nightly or weekly recapping what I've bookmarked.
2. At some point (perhaps in the recap) show me if any of my friends have also bookmarked the same thing (perhaps from Facebook or g+ graph data).
I could live without #2, and might want to opt-out - there are some things I bookmark I wouldn't want other people knowing about, but some things I wouldn't mind.
Yes, yes, yes please.
Bingo. I stopped using bookmarking services after finally admitting this to myself.
I also had this nagging feeling from having a list of "to read" links that I never read -- like having a long list of "to dos" that you never get around to doing, it makes you feel bad.
And whenever I did make the time to read some of these things, they were disappointingly insignificant.
That is what I get with using Pocket. I put stuff in there that when I get around to reading I think "was THIS what I was keeping that browser tab open for all this time?"
I think that we want to read those things because we are procrastinating doing something else. Like what I am doing with writing this comment :).
Dropbox also has a "Selective Sync" feature to sync only some folders, but I couldn't get it to work (with repeated installations, running on a Mac).
This fills a niche I think we all have. You have a link or article you see and want to read but you aren't on your phone or your tablet. Typically I email the link to my personal inbox.
My only gripe is that I went to import my chrome bookmarks (which I have a lot of admiteddly) and they still are not visible from Raindrop after a few hours. I haven't received an email saying that the import was complete, and I don't want to rebuild my bookmark collection from scratch.
Anyone else having a similar problem?
My concern is similar to others - will this just become yet another place I don't look?
I love Pinboard, I have Evernote and I've signed up for at least 10 other similar services (one that I noted I worried about containing to exist on an HN post on its announcement post...it died a year later), etc. But I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff.
Rustem M.
And of course, how is it going to make money?
It gives screenshots, It saves content for later and it's an official Opera extension (pinboard doesn't have an official one).
Edit: Raindrop.io also let's you save the content of video. That's a pretty handy feature pinboard and dragdis don't have. I don't know of anyone else that has it.
In addition, many companies like Facebook offer localized versions of SDK downloads and Widget scripts. Thus, when a developer somewhere in China downloads the SDK and puts the <script> tags on their page, people from all over the world will see Facebook authentication dialog in Chinese.
Localization can be tricky.
What makes you say this?
Their Twitter account is mostly in Russian, and its location listed as St. Petersburg (Russia).
As for money generation- sooner or later you will probably see ads in certain areas unless you sign up for a premium plan.
I'd probably pay up to $10/year for something like that. I bookmark a lot, but then forget about things. A service that reminded me what I bookmarked would be great.
>> We unfortunately have not finished processing your bookmarks uploaded earlier! Please wait more, we will notify you at the specified E-mail. [0]
[0] https://www.dropbox.com/s/opk0jvuvjbssc8s/Screenshot%202014-...
But it needs more work to be useful to me. For instance, I don't always want to save the contents of the webpage, but just the link along with some notes or tags.
I use it now for almost 5 years and have more than 10 thousands bookmarks in it. If there is any interest, I will put it up on Github.
I use pocket for 'read this later'. Raindrop.io seems very well suited for bookmarks so far.
They have an app (for android at least, not sure about iOS) with which you can share stuff to. So from your (mobile/desktop) browser you can store anything that has a url.