Raindrop: All-in-One Bookmark Manager

https://raindrop.io/

by memorable • 4 years ago

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holgersindbaek• 4 years ago

Love it. My favorite bookmark manager.

mkka2• 4 years ago

Just use the notion clipper instead. Used this before but didn't provide much improvement on other solutions.

Gualdrapo• 4 years ago

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.

mkka2• 4 years ago

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.

ishbasho• 4 years ago

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.

smudgy• 4 years ago

Hmmm... this is interesting!

encryptluks22• 4 years ago

Please open source this and then add features like Google Drive/Dropbox backup, etc. as enterprise.

tconfrey• 4 years ago

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

encryptluks22• 4 years ago

Looks very nifty. This is definitely more in line with what I was looking for.

ecliptik3• 4 years ago

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

2. https://help.raindrop.io/backups#automatic

sumitgt• 4 years ago

Is there a way to export data in some viable format?

ecliptik3• 4 years ago

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...

vorpalhex3• 4 years ago

Thank you, my first question was "How do I hook this up to ArchiveBox."

exentrich7• 4 years ago

Export available in HTML and CSV format. What other format you interested in?

ecliptik3• 4 years ago

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-non2• 4 years ago

If you use RSS it may also appeal to you that Raindrop supports creating public RSS feeds from collections.

NylaTheWolf• 4 years ago

I noticed that! I was so surprised but so happy!

drcongo• 4 years ago

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• 4 years ago

I am using Raindrop and it syncs seamlessly between all my devices despite not ever paying for it.

Melatonic• 4 years ago

Free tier?

exentrich7• 4 years ago

You can sync with as many devices you want. No such limitation even in Free. You can also connect sync to any other service through IFTTT for free.

But yes backup to Dropbox & Google Drive is premium feature.

MrBurrito• 4 years ago

Any chance to add OneDrive in the future?

charles_f2• 4 years ago

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-non2• 4 years ago

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• 4 years ago

Thats still two orders longer than it should take

myth_drannon• 4 years ago

I also stopped because the extension was slow and unusable if you have a lot of tags

amitgupta6• 4 years ago

Yes. It is slow. This is precisely the reason I stopped using it.

rnmp• 4 years ago

Shameless plug but I’m working on a visual organization and bookmarking tool and feedback and input from someone like you would be crucial!

https://www.bleep.is

artdigital• 4 years ago

That's the reason why I stopped using it too. It looked pretty but I didn't feel productive because of the laggy-ness

I shilled this yesterday as well, but anybox (https://anybox.cc) might be for you, that's what I am using currently. It's native on iOS/Mac, syncs with iCloud and is very keyboard centric with Command Palette, Quick Open, etc.

No connected cloud SaaS subscription service (though there is an iAP with one-time purchase option) or other bells&whistles, just a good simple native app that does what I want it to do

isuleman• 4 years ago

I don't trust anything with CC domain :{

rg111• 4 years ago

I used Notion for some months, and this is why I stopped using it. It is too slow.

Edit: Notion has no one-click exit options. That's also a bummer.

charles_f2• 4 years ago

Funny you should say that, I had the same experience, and when talking about that with a friend he told me that he never had any speed issues.

exentrich7• 4 years ago

Raindrop servers located in Germany. Response time can be a slow if you too far away geographically. But we use caching intensively so it should not be a problem. Can you check again please?

password4321• 4 years ago

Mentioned several times in yesterday's discussion of bookmarking services:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31848210#31856598

markstos2• 4 years ago

Looks nice. Bookmarked it with Pinboard.

eknkc2• 4 years ago

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.

markstos2• 4 years ago

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.

gexla• 4 years ago

Apparently it is, because Pinboard has taken over my search results for certain queries.

tptacek3• 4 years ago

He didn't "seem to have" left Twitter. He announced he was leaving Twitter for a year, about 6 months ago. It's literally the first tweet on his feed. blog.pinboard.in resolves to the Pinboard blog. Pinboard works great; I use it daily.

seltzered_• 4 years ago

I used my pinboard account to remember kippt (YC S12, closed 2015) - https://blog.ycombinator.com/kippt-yc-s12-launches-inc-the-w...

joe8756438• 4 years ago

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

vorpalhex3• 4 years ago

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.

veg• 4 years ago

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.

sph2• 4 years ago

Your comment reminds me of the "Collections" feature in Microsoft Edge, where you can collect a group of related URLs and notes together. I haven't used Edge in a while, but I recall I used it a few times and it was a better experience than the regular "bookmark something and forget about it until it bit rots" which I've never been fond of.

Now I wonder, can I have "Collections" on Firefox?

oweiler• 4 years ago

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).

ilrwbwrkhv• 4 years ago

Is this inspired by inkdrop.app?

exentrich7• 4 years ago

Raindrop in development since 2013. So probably not :)

simscitizen• 4 years ago

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.

exentrich7• 4 years ago

Native macOS app is on the way! Hope to complete it this year

vorpalhex3• 4 years ago

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.

TenJack• 4 years ago

Worth checking out Bookmark OS as well for a bookmark manager https://bookmarkos.com

janandonly• 4 years ago

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.

pacifika• 4 years ago

What about on mobile? Never mind I remembered https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/pdf-search/id1303227688

aor2152• 4 years ago

I made my own little solution to this problem too: https://linksort.com

mikercampbell• 4 years ago

I love this! Do you have some sort of mobile, PWA app?

aor2152• 4 years ago

Thanks! On mobile, I just open the page in the browser. There's a Safari extension that works on mobile for iOS that enables you to save links [0]. I haven't bothered to get the Chrome extension to work on mobile yet.

[0] https://linksort.com/blog/safari/

arintoker• 4 years ago

This is a great bookmark manager. I have used many other solutions in the past and Raindrop provides the proper functionality you would expect from a bookmark manager after years of use I have never ran into any limitations or frustrations.

DaniDaniel5005• 4 years ago

I’m working on one:

https://github.com/Daniel31x13/link-warden

needz• 4 years ago

That landing page is fantastic

exentrich7• 4 years ago

Hi! I’m the creator of Raindrop. Feel free to ask anything!

juchilov• 4 years ago

Scrapyard, a WebExtension ScrapBook revival: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrapyard/

oshout• 4 years ago

Raindrop snapshots and indexes most things you bookmark with it. It also has an API and integrations with ITTT.

There are desktop and mobile apps as well.

I used to live by chromes syncing bookmark feature but it wasn't always easy to get content bookmarked in chrome on my phone especially.

Now, anything which can be shared on my phone (with the share button) I can send to bookmark and be done with it.

My biggest gripe is that the search is direct and doesn't provide much wiggle room in finding what you're looking for. Super handy though if you can remember a key phrase from the article.

stereoradonc• 4 years ago

Raindrop offers best in class bookmarking. 1) Highlights on webpages. 2) IFTTT integration. 3) Permanent archives for paid users. 4) RSS feeds for bookmark collection. Brilliant and HIGHLY recommended!

account-5• 4 years ago

I just use Zotero for bookmarks. No need to worry about deadlinks (seemingly charged for in this app) as a copy it taken at time of ingestion.

Raindrop: All-in-One Bookmark Manager

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