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Would be nice to add a full-offline option.

Don't take it wrong, but I'm getting wary of services offering to store my data online for free, especially when I don't know how / if it intend to make money.

Looks good though, I might give it a try even with that issue.

on the same boat.. but have given up on using Chrome for bookmarks. It's too slow on Linux when you've more than 50 tabs.

Firefox loads under a minute with 510 tabs from various tab-groups. (I use a tab-group for each group and field of study and yes I use most tabs actually)

The search in the sidebar is so enormously useful, it helps me to find ANY bookmark made by hitting CTRL+b or middle-click (two-finger tap here). I heavily use tags, which is really making the search better, but I wish these tags could be automatically generated by an algorithm.

1. https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/flat-bookmarks-h... (this is what opens up a better sidebar)

2. https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/bookmark-rater/ (rating is really useful sometimes)

3. https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/enhanced-middle-... (I use that to open the sidebar)

4. https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/auto-sort-bookma... (autosort "heap, stack and memory" of bookmarks. I don't sort the the toolbar)

Optional:

i) https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/faviconreloader (In case you want icons for old bookmarks)

ii) https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/tabgroups-menu/ (helpful to quickly switch, rename and reorder tab-groups, because zooming-in-out sucks)

iii) https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/unloadtab/ (worried about loading >500 tabs at once? set it to load only tabs you clicked and unload tabs oder n)

Would be nice to know what it actually does before installing it.

You need to click on the thunderbolt. Took me awhile to figure out.

Thanks! Not very intuitive. I thought that was making reference to your browser once installed, not as a "show me more" button.

I agree, I didn't figure that out until I read comments either. A little "click here" hint could go a long way here.

When I click the thunderbolt it just repeats the first animation of the window appearing. (FF 30)

So that makes what 4 or 5 new bookmarks extensions for chrome in the last two weeks?

They all suffer from the exact same problem: online and not nearly as fast as the current default option in chrome. Don't get me wrong, I hate the default bookmarks manger in chrome and wish that after 6 years they'd update it already (or at least ad api's that allow someone else to) but all the latest get same basic things wrong while not being very different form one another.

EDIT: I guess I should clarify, I don't mean that online is bad, I used xmarks for a long time, I just don't like online only because it affects retrieval and search rates. There's just no way to beat the speed of a local directory.

[I've installed Dewey, dragdis, and fetching.io. fetching is really more of a history extension than a bookmarking one but the idea behind it is the same. After about two weeks I stopped using Dragdis because the UI makes looking for things impossible and Dewey I installed but never enabled because it was just too much of a hassle]

I think cloud sync is good idea! Because you can access bookmarks not only from your current browser, but also from mobile app/API. In near feature Raindrop will have mobile app and powerful API for third-party developers

Interesting, and very slick and pretty, but doesn't solve my too-many-tabs problem anywhere near as well as Tabs Outliner: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk...

Equivalent for firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

It supports grouping in the tab bar, or alongside in tree form. I find the integrated interface a bit better than the Chrome plugin above.

Tree Style Tab and Snaplinks are the main reasons I switched to Firefox from Chrome.

This seems to be the exact same as this Chrome extension: https://dragdis.com/ I might be wrong, but there don't seem to be any real differences or improvements compared to Dragdis.

Typo "Register usign email" should be "Register using email" here: http://cl.ly/image/1r0f2p0n0y19

Quick question : Are there any reasons that you opted for a sign-in access instead of an offline access? I prefer offline as I can configure on my machine and sync with the built-in browser sync. If I need to access these bookmarks permanently, I can use

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/roomy-bookmar...

or other bookmarks plug. Nice one, though.

Shameless plug here. Chrome extension to email yourself the current page with a single click: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/email-this-page/dk...

More in the line of "save it now, maybe i'll get to it later" :)

Anyone can tell what was used to create all the animations? I noticed it's all HTML/CSS/JS.

Looks nice but did not find any differentiation from what I already use - Pocket http://www.getpocket.com

What does this do that firefox bookmarks can't, except showing a thumbnail? I know "folder hierarchy" sounds so 1990s, but still.

It saves not only bookmarks but associated content depending on page type. If it's an article, it will be cut and saved with the bookmark. The same applies to video, photo and presentations.

Also you can share some collections of bookmarks. In future update you can also collaborate with colleagues and friends.

Ah, that's actually quite nice, although I suppose it only makes a copy of the text, not of the video & audio, right?

Very slick interface, but there's one glaring UX problem: I often need to refresh the page just to access my bookmarks.

What does it do that the Firefox add-on 'Scrapbook' + 'Mozbackup' doesn't do and save offline?

In the (very nicely done!) little animation, "Relashionships" should be "Relationships".

This is awesome. BUT you need to add option import existing bookmarks.

Agree

It seems to be available here: https://raindrop.io/pages/import

Is this free software? Does it store the bookmarks online?

"Register usign E-mail" should be "Register using e-mail" (using not usign)

can anyone recommend a cross browser bookmark solution?

pinboard.in

I've heard good things about xmarks.

Personally I store bookmarks as a flat file, with some javascript magic for tagging, and store that under git:

https://github.com/skx/bookmarks.public

It's portable amongst browsers locally, but obviously it's not an extension and requires more effort to work with.

(I tend to bookmark things in my browser for a few days then mass-update the git version and delete from the browser.)

I've used xmarks for several years now and I like it. Sometimes it can be awkward when different browsers' conventions both sync in (like Firefox's "Unsorted Bookmarks" appears as a folder in any other browser), but otherwise it's been nice.

Hushmarks.com is a very simple solution in that you can just add their bookmarklet to every browser you use.

I use pocket for storing everything. It's cross-browser and device so you can easily sync offline to your tablet/phone to read on a plane. http://getpocket.com/

Pocket is fantastic. I tend to open hundreds of tabs and put them into Pocket if I don't have time to read them. It's nice to have them sync to my phone and my tablet so I can read them offline when I have downtime.

Google Spreadsheet to store bookmarks, using a bookmarklet.

i cannot snyc my pocket

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