Ask HN: Please give us feedback on our (anti-social) tool thinkery.me
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2100342Alex and I built this tool (http://thinkery.me) because we were unhappy with existing apps like Evernote, delicious, historio.us, pinboard.in or other software on the market. Every tool we examined needed too much work to organize your stuff or does only one thing.
We wanted an app that extends your brain by:
- making it super fast to add new things, urls, todos, just throwing everything at it that is in your brain
- automatically extracting relevant content like text, audio, video, images (using oembed but also scraping the page identifying the relevant content)
- quickly finding your notes with instant-search
- keeping things private or making them public (to share them on twitter, facebook)...
My public things: http://thinkery.me/nader
Example of extracted page (truncated due to copyright reasons, private things dont get truncated): http://thinkery.me/nader/4d2ec7f67477595c14000000
Example of oembed content: http://thinkery.me/nader/4d245b10747759f448010000
We're not perfectly sure what direction to take. What we're sure of is that this needs a working mobile version but for the rest...would you rather focus on making the app more social or add features like:
- assigning things to / inviting other people (@-syntax?)?
- dragging'n'dropping of images into it?
- create filters so you can only display private / public things?
- extracting even more content by aggregating similar things?
- automatically retrieve tweets you favorited?
It would be awesome and very much appreciated if you gave your thoughts, feedback or posted any bugs you encounter. Also say if this is a tool you would use or what is missing so you would use it.
Looking forward to it!
PS: There is a delicious importer in case you want to try that out: http://thinkery.me/delicious.php