Show HN: my weekend project - Bookmarks made serviceable

  • Now.it can be done even better by adding a windows 8 or spotlight style search :)

  • I like this notion of the desktop metaphor being extended to bookmarks. Actually I was quite disappointed to see that Google missed this trick with their new Chromebooks, preferring to stuff app links into a bar at the bottom of their desktop. Your approach makes a lot more sense.

    Quick bug report, there is a display issue when one's browser window (or screen) isn't wide enough, it chops off whatever is meant to be at the right hand side at the top: http://i.imgur.com/GfNtJcv.png

    Another issue is that sub-memorypools with identical names can be created. Not sure if that is intentional or not.

    Also a suggestion, I think that dragging a bookmark icon on top of a memorypool icon should move it into there.

  • Really like it, few bugs though:

    You can drag an item to below the fold and it extends the screen and adds a scrollbar. This then causes the logout and the number (which is?) next to it to stack looking weird.

    It's weird having to drag a select box to select only one item. Took me a minute to figure out you could even do that (remembered it was based off desktop) but before I was grabbing one, moving it, and then dropping which leaves it selected before I could delete.

    Folders have a %20 in the name at the top once you enter them, but no on the icon display.

  • Since I still buy into the benefits of the spatial metaphor, I like this kind of stuff.

    But, lately, I've been moving to a more search-driven experience where I can add content/bookmarks/files/whatever to the system and forget about them until I need them later, so I'm not sure if this would scale to the number of bookmarks I've been adding lately.

    But, still, neat. At the very least, I see some potential in this approach for curated "launchers", sharing sets of bookmarks with others.

  • Great idea!

    I'm reminded of http://www.allmyfaves.com/ (although you've obviously improved on their concept dramatically). If you're looking for a way to monetize your project, I believe they do pretty well just off of affiliate links (for the ecommerce sites).

  • I really love where you are going with this. Overall idea is pretty solid, I would say unique even though it is like win8.

    As for feedback I saw in comments so far, first thing would be search and organizing in groups like win8 does. Then tagging as alternative way to organize would be good. Overall really nice.

  • Nice, this will be good combined with this Chrome extension [1] to set a custom URL for new tabs.

    [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-tab-redirect/i...

  • Interesting idea, but I find that spatial systems are problematic for people like myself who end up falling behind on their organizing.

    Personally, I use a tagging model because it's easy and quick enough to catch back up.

  • Nice one.

    Can we have a bookmarklet or chrome extension for this? Just a click and the website should be added. I'm using G+'s +1 for this so far.

  • If I make a mistake in the address it will not let me delete or edit the address. I also get logged into other users bookmarks.

  • If the title/label is very long, can you make a tooltip to show the whole label/title on :hover? Much appreciated.

  • Oh, god, the color scheme...

  • It's down at the moment.

  • I like this notion of the desktop metaphor being extended to bookmarks. Actually I was quite disappointed to see that Google missed this trick with their new Chromebooks, preferring to stuff app links into a bar at the bottom of their desktop. Your approach makes a lot more sense.

    Quick bug report, there is a display issue when one's browser window (or screen) isn't wide enough, it chops off whatever is meant to be at the right hand side at the top: http://i.imgur.com/GfNtJcv.png