[HN Gopher] Raindrop: All-in-One Bookmark Manager
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Raindrop: All-in-One Bookmark Manager
Author : memorable
Score : 104 points
Date : 2022-06-24 15:02 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (raindrop.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (raindrop.io)
| simscitizen wrote:
| I use Raindrop but really wish they had support for share
| extensions in their macOS app. That way I could get rid of their
| toolbar button and just use the share button instead on Safari.
| ecliptik wrote:
| The NewsBlur RSS reader just added support for Raindrop.io,
| allowing you you to share a feed item and have it saved in
| Raindrop with categories and tags.
|
| https://forum.newsblur.com/t/feature-request-support-for-rai...
| lf-non wrote:
| If you use RSS it may also appeal to you that Raindrop supports
| creating public RSS feeds from collections.
| charles_f wrote:
| I used it for a year until maybe 12 months ago. The one thing
| that made me leave was that everything was juat slow enough to
| irritate me. Not crazy slow, but not very responsive either. When
| looking for a bookmark in a folder and each folder takes a couple
| seconds to load, then your browse becomes tedious.
|
| I like that there's a good export function though, being able to
| be non committal to a tool is a prime feature IMO
| lf-non wrote:
| Have been using raindrop for a couple months. Maybe it varies
| by collection size or location, but I rarely experience a
| request that takes more than a sec to complete.
| hexo wrote:
| Thats still two orders longer than it should take
| travoltaj wrote:
| It should take 10 milliseconds?
| myth_drannon wrote:
| I also stopped because the extension was slow and unusable if
| you have a lot of tags
| vorpalhex wrote:
| This is fantastic.
|
| Open source apps? Check
|
| Reasonable ways to get my data out? Check
|
| Sane pricing with sufficient demo? Check
|
| This app is going to be my go to example for how to sell an app
| well.
| holgersindbaek wrote:
| Love it. My favorite bookmark manager.
| TenJack wrote:
| Worth checking out Bookmark OS as well for a bookmark manager
| https://bookmarkos.com
| markstos wrote:
| Looks nice. Bookmarked it with Pinboard.
| seltzered_ wrote:
| I used my pinboard account to remember kippt (YC S12, closed
| 2015) - https://blog.ycombinator.com/kippt-yc-s12-launches-inc-
| the-w...
| eknkc wrote:
| Is pinboard still a thing? I've an account but haven't used it
| for ages. Maciej seems to have left twitter,
| http://blog.pinboard.in resolves to a placeholder page. Thought
| it was abandoned at this point.
| markstos wrote:
| Still a thing. There's an excellent iOS app for Pinboard made
| a third party developer, called Pins. It was just updated in
| 2022.
|
| https://get-pins.app/posts/pins-v2022.1/
|
| I don't see a placeholder page at https://blog.pinboard.in/ I
| see the most recent blog post. It happens to be a couple
| years old, but Pinboard is good enough as it is. I didn't
| subscribe for monthly product blog posts.
| geeio wrote:
| I wasn't expecting the app to be that good! Great
| recommendation
| foxbarrington wrote:
| Thanks for the recommendation; just purchased Pins. I was
| using Pinner, but was not happy with it.
| mkka wrote:
| Just use the notion clipper instead. Used this before but didn't
| provide much improvement on other solutions.
| ishbasho wrote:
| I don't see the appeal of the bookmark manager either. I use
| Joplin's webclipper with tags and reference manager (Zotero)
| for academic work.
| Gualdrapo wrote:
| You're comparing apples to oranges. Raindrop doesn't need to be
| installed (on desktop, different thing if you want to use their
| app on mobile). And it lets you categorize your stuff in
| folders _and_ tags and give each of them a representative icon.
| I've using this as a complement to the 'Saved' feature of
| Feedly and frankly despite the web ui being a little clunky it
| works really great.
| mkka wrote:
| All those are simple to set up in Notion. Both run via web
| app and can include categories, tags and additional
| information. They certainly target different audiences, but
| in my experience Notion isn't missing anything Raindrop has,
| it just adds more functionality. Raindrop works well, no
| doubt. It just doesn't add much functionality to browser
| based bookmarking.
| smudgy wrote:
| Hmmm... this is interesting!
| drcongo wrote:
| I'd be down with this if it used the OS sync (iCloud / Google
| Drive etc) and wasn't a subscription. As it stands, it looks like
| it charges monthly just to use a sync that I can't trust.
| leodriesch wrote:
| I am using Raindrop and it syncs seamlessly between all my
| devices despite not ever paying for it.
| Melatonic wrote:
| Free tier?
| oweiler wrote:
| For me it's much more effective to bookmark blog posts I've found
| interesting to re-read later than to Store things I may
| eventually read (which rarely happens).
| encryptluks2 wrote:
| Please open source this and then add features like Google
| Drive/Dropbox backup, etc. as enterprise.
| tconfrey wrote:
| BrainTool[1] is a similar bookmarking extension that is open
| source[2] and syncs data to a plain text file (org-mode format)
| on Google Drive.
|
| [1] https://braintool.org [2]
| https://github.com/tconfrey/BrainTool
| ecliptik wrote:
| Raindrop web, mobile, and desktop apps are on Github [1], none
| of the repos have licenses though. It has support for Dropbox
| and Google Drive backups [2].
|
| 1. https://github.com/raindropio
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| 2. https://help.raindrop.io/backups#automatic
| [deleted]
| password4321 wrote:
| Mentioned several times in yesterday's discussion of bookmarking
| services:
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31848210#31856598
| joe8756438 wrote:
| For me collecting bookmarks is part of a larger activity that
| involves any information I want to gather for use later on.
| Bookmarks is usually about assembling a reading list or
| collecting resources on a topic. I used to think the larger
| activity was note-taking, but I'm realizing that's not really it
| either. The activity is something very general like "collecting
| information". Collecting, notes, bookmarks, quotes, transactions,
| events, equations, etc.
|
| I built a service to solve this problem [0], but I'm not sure how
| to communicate what it is. Does it collect and organize
| bookmarks, yes. But I also use it to track of my spending, do my
| budget, keep a work log, make financial projections, manage
| tasks, send myself reminders and digests of all the above
| content.
|
| [0] https://tatatap.com
| veg wrote:
| I clicked the link because I want something like what you
| mentioned. But your landing page showed a programming language
| and you lost me.
|
| And I'm a developer.
|
| You're not selling a syntax. You're selling a solution. The
| homepage should be selling me on what you're solving, not the
| syntax to do it.
| vorpalhex wrote:
| This is something approaching a general personal assistant. A
| few notes:
|
| My immediate worry is that this is not general enough. A tool
| like this is one I really want to integrate into my other tools
| - Obsidian, PushOver, etc.
|
| Pricing was an immediate turnoff for me. The demo auto-converts
| and I don't trust you enough to go for that.
|
| It seems like my data is very locked in. Again, not enough
| trust here.
| janandonly wrote:
| I largely stopped bookmarking stuff altogether, and now simply
| save a website as a PDF file in a folder structure that is
| ordered by broad subjects.
|
| Works fine for over a decade now.
|
| Bonus: on MacOS you can search through stored pdf files very
| easily.
| sumitgt wrote:
| Is there a way to export data in some viable format?
| ecliptik wrote:
| There is a Backup feature [1] that saves/exports to a Netscape
| bookmark format file locally or to Dropbox or Google Drive.
|
| I save to Dropbox, and have a cronjob import it into ArchiveBox
| to create a local backup of sites [2].
|
| 1. https://help.raindrop.io/backups/
|
| 2. https://www.ecliptik.com/bookmarking-with-
| raindrop/#archivin...
| vorpalhex wrote:
| Thank you, my first question was "How do I hook this up to
| ArchiveBox."
| ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
| Is this inspired by inkdrop.app?
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