Ask HN: Please review my "single-use bookmarking" app

http://app.reminderbear.com

by dwwoelfel • 15 years ago

36 23 15 years ago

app.reminderbear.com

dwwoelfel9• 15 years ago

The app lets you submit a page via a bookmarklet, then emails you a link to the page one week later. It's really useful for saving HN comment threads. HN commenting dies down within a week, so you won't miss any good comments.

jsavimbi2• 15 years ago

So it's Everlater for HN? Seems like it wouldn't be all that useful outside of that context, since you've made timing the differentiating feature.

dwwoelfel9• 15 years ago

Are you talking about this: http://www.everlater.com/? Can you explain the similarity please?

The purpose of Reminder Bear is to go back to sites that will see some update in a week's time. It's not just for HN, you can use it on any web page that you want to be updated on. Most discussion on the web ends after a week, and if it's still going strong you can resubmit it to check next week.

Here are the things I've used it for so far:

    Forums that I'm not subscribed to

    Sites with comments that don't notify me of replies

    News stories

    Reddit threads

dot• 15 years ago

interesting, but a week seems too long for me. is there a service that sends me daily summary email with links?

BoppreH• 15 years ago

I think daily would be perfect. Only when you have something pending, of course, or it'll look too spammy when you come back from a vacation.

dwwoelfel9• 15 years ago

Would you use it if you could configure your own delay period?

I've tried to come up with a way to change it for each page you submit, but I haven't come up with anything that doesn't require pop-ups or page refreshes. I really would like to keep the UI as simple as possible. Is it too much work for the user to add the delay to the end of the url, ie example.com#DaysToSend=1, hit refresh, then hit the bookmarklet?

is there a service that sends me daily summary email with links?

That sounds alot like Read it Later: http://readitlaterlist.com/.

mattdeboard2• 15 years ago

Yeah don't do any of these changes here. You've got your thing and it works good, extremely minimal which is awesome and perfect. My big hobby project is a bookmarking app (almost exactly like pinboard, except less reliable :P link's in my profile page), and I struggle with making the bookmarks more immediately accessible without having to make a bunch of clicks.

I like your idea here. I'm not sure I have a use case for it, but I really like the interface. Feels like this might be more at home as a very lightweight plugin.

geekam• 15 years ago

If only I could set my own quick day/time reminder.

georgieporgie• 15 years ago

How about multiple bookmarks? Like, "Reminder Bear - 1 day", "Reminder Bear - 1 week". Then I could click whichever is appropriate for the link I'm looking at.

michaeldhopkins• 15 years ago

Why is everything ending with "bear" now? ReminderBear, SmartBear, HustleBear? Are we out of Get__________ and _______app domain names?

dwwoelfel9• 15 years ago

The original name was WhileDile, as in you tell the link "See ya later alligator" and it says "after while crocodile". Nobody I talked to liked that one, but everybody liked Reminder Bear.

mitjak• 15 years ago

I like WhileDile later more, or at least the way the "see ya later alligator" idea was heading more. People are bear biased.

TryThinking• 15 years ago

Why is your logo so similar to the world wildlife fund? http://www.worldwildlife.org/resources/media/images/global/p...

dwwoelfel9• 15 years ago

I got mine here: http://www.clker.com/clipart-14542.html. The website claims that my logo is in the public domain, so I used it accordingly.

Edit: Theirs is much more cutesy. Mine is all business -- you can tell just from looking at him that he has an impeccable memory.

kisielk• 15 years ago

I would be more likely to use this if it did RSS feeds instead of email. I already get more junk than I want to deal with in my mailbox. Having a news item pop up in my newsreader a few days after I "bookmark" the page would be far preferable.

dwwoelfel9• 15 years ago

That's a good idea. I'll make that an option as soon as I finish writing user pages.

mattdeboard2• 15 years ago

This seems perfect for HackerNews comment threads where you never get notifications of responses (at least, I don't) and you'll inevitably forget to check back later.

seancron• 15 years ago

I use Notifo to get notified of responses on HN: http://notifo.com/hackernews

Murphster007• 15 years ago

cool concept, i've been using http://www.bmrk.it for a bit, it's simple and unobtrusive with a similar goal as your service.

dwwoelfel9• 15 years ago

Have you tried http://historio.us? I just checked out bmrk.it, and Historious is much better in my opinion. Historious' bookmarklet (which mine is derived from) requires no page refresh and doesn't require you to be logged in to the service. They also cache the pages you bookmark so that the bookmarks will be around even if the original sites get moved or deleted.

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