I’ve used raindrop for a year and sadly it’s been a horror story. To begin with it’s a complete maze just to subscribe to it. Second, a serious bug was released that replaced all my bookmarks with some random spam video. Third, the ultimate deal breaker which happened a few days ago, was that the iPad app is so buggy that it deleted all my bookmarks when I tried to simply move a folder to a different folder since the navigation is so broken I was left with no choice. A years worth of bookmarks went “poof!” in a second; words can’t express my rage.<p>My advice, drop raindrop before it drops your bookmarks.
I've been using Raindrop for about a year. It's just a much better bookmarking app than what's come before.<p>It really comes down to UX. The browser integration is fantastic, and there's a really smooth native-feel Electron app that has an integrated browser.<p>One of my favourite uses is creating a temporary "project-oriented" collection. For example, let's say I'm researching places to travel. I can create a collection about this, bookmark things (destinations, discussion threads, Wikipedia entries, etc.) as I go along, and then use the built-in browser to go back and forth between each bookmark as I make notes or whatever. Normally you'd use browser tabs for this, except the Raindrop way means I'm not consuming lots of browser resources, and the collection stays persistent even if I close it.<p>The same workflow works for tech projects I work on (where I may want some documentation, papers, etc. "scrapbooked" in a temporary place), and many other things.<p>Safari is the only browser (that I know) that has a similar kind of bookmark-oriented browsing functionality, and it's just not very good.<p>Overall it's much nicer than the older services such as Delicious and Pinboard, not to mention the atrocious built-in bookmarking features in modern browsers, which have been ossifying since around 1998.
All their apps are open source. If anyone is interested -<p><a href="https://github.com/raindropio" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/raindropio</a>
When I click on the link, then I read that raindrop-io is fast intuitive and smart, and at the very bottom I see a link to tell me its an extension. I like fast, intuituive and smart extensions, I'm looking forward to buying pizza with this ;). In otherwards what does it do!?! :)
I am unsure between this and Pinboard.in.<p>Raindrop certainly looks better, but Pinboard seems to have better integrations across other services. Those permanent archives are nice to have, but it does not feel that permanent without a local copy and a perceived bus-factor of 1 on both of them.<p>I requested an Archive Backup in my Pinboard settings, but I am still waiting for a download link three weeks later.<p>Thankfully, those bookmarks.html exports and imports seem to be very reliable across different bookmarking services.
I've dreamed of a great bookmark system that works everywhere. Instapaper has been my favorite, but then it was sold then it was bought back and little growth in features, and more importantly it seems on borrow times, which is the issue with most all of these that the point of them it save data that you can reference later on, sometimes many many years. Like how I can reference emails from over decades ago. But other than things like Gmail most services don't stick around. Which is why I hope eventually it's something that is offered natively in iOS. They have reading list which is the start of that, but it only has about 1% of the needed features, and so far has seen little to no attention from Apple. Open source self hosted options can solve some of those problems, but typically then don't integrate with countless services as much as premium ones do, and requires a lot more ongoing maintenance and don't have the polish or the native apps like the premium options. Having said all that, since there is no ideal long term solution, using something like this in the meantime maybe worth it, but 100% would require being able to export all the data at anytime.
I want to love raindrop.<p>But it's run by one guy, in another country. No thanks.<p>I wish there were a bookmark manager like this that didn't require the *aaS aspect.
No thanks, i'll trust pinboard, he's a down to earth guy and while you might have some features that he doesn't have. They aren't worth it for another delicious shutdown or evernote going to shit.
I just signed up for this because it looks pretty neat, and installed the chrome extension. Now I can't for the life of me figure out how to get back into the chrome extension settings after having gone through the initial sign up wizard. I'll admit I have a head cold so maybe I'm just dumb today, but how do I get back to the settings for how the extension itself works?
I've been using Raindrop.io for some months and can say I am a happy user. I will agree with others that it's mostly about the UX than anything else. I really appreciate the effort the developers of raindrop.io put into their product. Kudos, keep it up!
Good bookmarking app is something that I would actually pay for without hesitation (and I'm not very generous with software subscriptions and such). But what I'm absolutely not going to use is bookmarking or note-taking app, storing my data on remote servers while not being fully e2e encrypted with something that cannot be broken in 50 years with all quantum-computers of the future and whatnot. This is ridiculous, especially when compared with all the fuss around "highly-secure" remote password managers, that you use to store a bunch of passwords (which will expire after a year) for some bullshit throw-away accounts (everything important has 2fa anyway). Heck, I'm not even always changing some passwords after I accidentally send them via messenger, because who cares. I wouldn't want to accidentally send to somebody the full collection of my bookmarks/notes.
I used to use pocket a lot, but the UI is bad, reading offline articles wouldn't work all the time, and I ended up actually not revisiting pocket much, piling up a lot of articles that I would never read. Should I give raindrop a try?
I installed to try to use it to prune through all my bookmarks.<p>I figured at the worst, import/prune/export back to my bookmark bar.<p>Exporting and syncing isn't a feature and won't be a feature, so uninstalled. Glad that part worked fast.
One of the few indiehacker/solo founder app that I use daily and wouldnt mind shelling out for PRO features. Excellent execution. Came from chrome native bookmarking and never going back.
I used Raindrop for a while but ended up moving to Bookmark OS. I find the UI easier to use <a href="https://bookmarkos.com" rel="nofollow">https://bookmarkos.com</a>
Does Raindrop save the content in a way that is accessible? For example can it create a local backup of all the webpages I bookmark organized neatly? Is there an option for it to take my existing bookmarks, and import them all, and archive all of them?