Ideas That Have Been Beaten to Death

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Raindrop.io

#Bookmarks #Bookmark Manager #Bookmark Synchronization 178 social mentions

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BrainTool

Guilty as charged! I'm building my own 'unique' take on bookmarks[0] (really it is unique ;-) . I think the reason this comes up is that people have more and more stuff to keep track of, and more and more of peoples stuff is accessed in a browser. Not so long ago there were standalone apps for email, word processing, spreadsheets, group chat, bug tracking, CRM etc etc. Now all of that stuff is inside some web app I get to in Chrome - me all all the other billion+ knowledge workers using Chromium. Thats why everyone has 50 tabs open at any given time. When almost everything I want to track has a unique URL it opens up possibilities and the browser builders have not been keeping pace. [0] https://braintool.org.

#Bookmarks #Chrome Extensions #Information Browser 90 social mentions

I found my problem with bookmarks a couple of years back and wrote a manifesto on what I expect out of an ideal bookmarking system - https://github.com/joelewis/readmelater I went on to build a version of that vision and it's live at https://closetab.email TLDR: Bookmarks shouldn't be an endless abyss of forgotten links. I wanted a bookmarking system that remembers links that I wanted to read later and make them show up in my email inbox regularly, say every monday. So I built one that does that.

#Email #Productivity #Chrome Extensions 14 social mentions

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Paperback

Pinboard is great! It works everywhere, it’s super simple, and it means I can find stuff later. For anyone looking for a “Read Later” option, [Paperback](https://readpaperback.com/) is lovely as well; like Instapaper before all the bullshit.

#Bookmarks #Bookmark Manager #Note Taking 4 social mentions