bookmarks
Productivity
bookmark manager
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
2 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score -0.12.
Execution: 0 for, 4 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Readers want to try it
From 2 comments
Very interesting! Keen to try it out, very sick of bookmark syncing and exporting etc... thanks
mrmondo on HNVery interesting. Bookmarks solve a particular problem of finding information that was already visited. A more general problem is a designing a personal knowledge base. There are…
arvind_devaraj on HN
Objections
Demo page fails to load for some users
From 3 comments
Oh no, I am so interested in this but the demo is not loading. Why not host it using GitHub pages instead of your own server to handle more traffic?
paradite on HN``` $ ping www.steve.org.uk PING www.steve.org.uk (80.68.84.111): 56 data bytes Request timeout for icmp_seq 0 Request timeout for icmp_seq 1 Request timeout for icmp_seq 2 $…
paradite on HNIt is broken when external jQuery blocked by uMatrix
diimdeep on HN
Demo appears to need external jQuery, breaking under uMatrix
From 1 comment
It is broken when external jQuery blocked by uMatrix
diimdeep on HN
Plain-text layout is hard to read without CSS
From 1 comment
Looks very interesting. Just IMHO, a little bit of CSS setting a max page width and a sans-serif font would be worth it.
Warp__ on HN
Requests
Store copies of the web pages as well
From 1 comment
I'd like to store the content of the webpages as well, in case they are taken offline.
amelius on HN
Add a max page width and sans-serif font
From 1 comment
Looks very interesting. Just IMHO, a little bit of CSS setting a max page width and a sans-serif font would be worth it.
Warp__ on HN
Questions
Why 'revision control' rather than 'version control'
From 1 comment
I've never heard it referred to as revision control - I always hear "version control" or even "source control". Any difference? Is that a common phrase?
jflowers45 on HN
Alternatives named
Xmarks bookmark sync
From 1 comment
* Xmarks | Bookmark Sync and Search || https://www.xmarks.com/ Little dated, but still works great across browsers and devices.
dbg31415 on HN
gitmarks
From 1 comment
Similar: https://github.com/hmason/gitmarks A web bookmark manager built on git and designed for github. It's searchable and social.
viach on HN
Org-mode bookmark file
From 1 comment
I'm using a similar solution, namely a file I edit in org-mode. Here are the advantages I've found so far: - org-mode or text files in general make it easy to add contextual…
codethief on HN
Powermarks
From 1 comment
The better part of 20 years ago, Kaylon sold their shareware / try-it-and-buy-it bookmark manager Powermarks. I've yet to come across anything as useful as it was. Cross-browser,…
pasbesoin on HN
Browser bookmark JSON/SQLite files under git
From 2 comments
Seems like you could just put the files that already exist under version control? Chrome just uses a JSON file it seems, as an example. On mac: ~/Library/Application\…
bpicolo on HNThe Firefox files are SQLite files, and I believe but haven't checked recently that the Chrome files have no newlines (0x0A) in the files. The whole JSON string is on one line,…
dotancohen on HN