The problem with bookmarks is not whether i need 2 or 4 clicks - it's about sync, browser & device integration, search, temporary dumps with follow-up, intelligent tagging, storing an offline copy, read-later formatting, adding metadata and even credentials, compilations, research buckets, etc.
Neither pinboard nor delicious have solved this for me and i doubt some fancy d&d tool will do it.
The "number of clicks" table and the pain described in the video (when you see a nice picture online, you'll want to navigate through a messy folder structure and save it to your filesystem) reeks of not having a good idea of the niche the product is trying to fill. The first is fallacious (I don't know how they count, by I can clip things to Evernote in two clicks and I don't think a long drag is necessarily better than two clicks), the second is just weird - non-social bookmarking is as old as the browser, it's called "bookmarks". The UI for the site just looks like Pinterest.
The ultimate bookmarking tool: Google.<p>Just google for something you want to use. It works like magic. The info is always up to date [1], it always finds what you need from the most obscure of references your brain comes up with, and no links are ever broken.<p>Oh and everything is a single click away. Win.<p>[1] no working off of stale bookmarks where the author neglected to go back and say "HEY THIS IS BAD NOW, DONT DO IT"
Pinboard.in FTW<p>1. I use the bookmarklet to add bookmarks<p>2. I write a short description for the bookmark<p>3. I click on one of my existing tags or add a new one<p>4. The Pinboard organize tool shows a preview of the content so I can edit bookmarks quickly<p>5. Automatically archives my retweets and links posted to Twitter<p>6. Let's me have private and public bookmarks<p>Just sayin' for me bookmarking is a solved problem.<p>Personally, I don't want something with unique UI features like folders popping up on my browser window. That just interrupts the workflow I've already developed.<p>I also appreciate that I paid for Pinboard and can reasonably expect it to be around for awhile without getting acquired or shutting down.
What i found most interesting about this is the slimmed down nature of <i>what</i> you collect. In the video, when you showed the grid of things you've collected... it was really appealing.<p>I think the real strength of this would be in it's technical implementation; how not-annoying is it in my browser, is it resource heavy, how can i adjust it etc, and then the community around it.<p>Which is where i think there would have to be some real differences between Pinterest. If you give the user the option to share (or not!) what he/she has collected with other people (perhaps a dedicated page), and played with the idea of how users could interact with each other ("This is what Julie collected on Tuesday," - then i think this idea could have even more potential than it already does.<p>Good luck to you folks. As i said this is really interesting.
I just wanted to add that in modern browsers you can bookmark with 0 mouse clicks. Just CTRL+D it.<p>In Firefox it additionally focuses the "Tags" field which I find awesome. I was skeptical initially towards tags, but it's much easier to tag stuff with a brain dump of keywords coming to my mind, than to nicely put it into some hierarchical structure. The latter never worked for me.<p>The challenge is to manage synonymous tags in one's mind. I frequently tag something with e.g. javascript-foo tag and some other thing with foo-javascript. But you can easily move it later in the Library (CTRL-SHIFT-B).<p>Firefox handles search using the URL, the title stored, the tags, so with a mixture of all those in your location bar, it's super easy to find things. CTRL-L to focus the location bar and here you go.
The issue isn't bookmarking and making that simpler. It's realizing that when we bookmark something, we often bookmark a sentence, paragraph, or area of a page that we have no way of easily finding of what they bookmarked mentally. Ever needed to go through dozens of link in a category or folder to find the "one". Having an intelligent search for the annotations of the web that you make live is invaluable for finding and sharing all the information you extract and want to save for re-use later.<p>If anyone can compare this to Diigo, I'd be much obliged.
The clicks that are displayed in this table: <a href="http://dragd.is/K6xbz" rel="nofollow">http://dragd.is/K6xbz</a>
Are counted when you need to choose a particular folder, notebook, board.
So with Evernote it's yes two clicks if you want to save it whatever the default place is, but if you want to choose a specific place it gets to 4-6 clicks!
That kind of article doesn't appeal to me. I've been using both Pocket and Kippt, as well as Evernote. What does your product bring that those three don't?<p>I feel like you should have shared your homepage instead (i.e. <a href="http://www.dragdis.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dragdis.com/</a>).
In my opinion, for a bookmarking tool to be "ultimate" it at least has to store the <i>content</i> of the web page and allow searching the content. Basically it should be a search engine that uses your bookmarks as the source of sites to crawl. This removes the burden of having to properly tag/organize bookmarks and makes bookmarks easier to find later.<p>Google Bookmarks does this: <a href="https://www.google.com/bookmarks/" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/bookmarks/</a><p>I've been using Google Bookmarks for years and am pretty happy with it even though it doesn't look like Google is developing it any further. There are other bookmarking products that provide this as well.
I have two levels of bookmarking:<p>Very fast - bookmarking in chrome.. just one click, I bookmark everything into one folder named as current year (so 2013 now). I have chrome profile synced on all my computers. This way I bookmark things that "are kind of interesting and I might want to see it later (but probably not)"<p>More important stuff - delicious.. requieres me to type some description and tags, which also means that I put there things that I really want to come back to later<p>The only thing I am missing from delicious is saving the content of the bookmark and making it searchable..
I think the issues described in this blog post, I still haven't found a solution to bookmark the huge quantity of information I index every day on the Internet. Pocket is very nice for reading, but lacks a proper organisation, Evernote can organise things pretty well, but does not work very well with websites imo. I am curious to try Dragdis and judge by myself.<p>For those wondering about synchronisation and mobile, I think these are key elements for a bookmarking service to succeed, future will tell how good Dragdis support will be.
You should check out linkies.com - disclaimer I'm a co-founder. Anyways linkies organizes your posts/bookmarks based on the hashtags you use. You can even group hashtags into groups that we are calling grashtags. You can also subscribe to just the topics you are interested in to create a custom news feed of links updated by the people you trust. it's currently in private beta but let me know if you want early access and I will see what I can do.
I went to the Dragdis website to check it out, and found the user experience (with the awkward scrolling) so jarring that I decided not to sign up for it.
I use a two-click bookmarking method called Tumblr. Have your Tumblr bookmarklet on your browser's bookmarks toolbar. Click on it to activate the saving of link you wish to bookmark. Click on publish in the Tumblr bookmarklet window. Done. Two-clicks done and it is fast enough.<p>Tumblr's bookmarklet is the fastest of all three blogging platforms I have experienced: Blogspot and Wordpress the other two.
I have developed a solution using the pocket api, whereby I can auto tag certain items based on a number of factors.<p>This has proved quite useful and has got rid of a lot of the pain points I had with these sort of services before.<p><a href="https://github.com/Newky/PocketPy" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Newky/PocketPy</a>
Uhrm, I can already drag bookmarks onto the bookmark bar/folder to make them. That's built into my browsers.<p>And I can already drag images and text from my browser onto my desktop and it will automatically save them. (Or into my dropbox folder if I want it synced.)<p>Why on earth would I need this? I don't see a use case.
The whole 'give some random [small] company pointers to everything on the Internet that I care about' creeps me out approximately the same as giving Google that info indirectly (for different reasons), but Google provides an indispensable convenience.
Cargocollective has the same drag and drop bookmarking UI. Shows up whenever you drag anything on their network. Indeed it is the right UI for that particular task. But it's also easy enough for other services to copy.
My problem with bookmarking tools is that I horde links in them that I actually never go back and look for. I usually just use my brain as an index for some keywords and then utilize Google search.
I posted this morning about bookmarking and link curation: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5367663" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5367663</a><p>dragdis is not the solution.
i do love how dragdis implemented that scrollable demo animation<p><a href="http://www.dragdis.com/#a" rel="nofollow">http://www.dragdis.com/#a</a><p>moving the scroll back slightly back and fourth actually makes the animation move smoothly back and fourth!
Very similar to a side-project I'd been working on for Chrome! Can't wait to get into the beta and see if it hits all the points I want hit from a bookmarking service!