That said, there is one important caveat. It's really up to you to figure out what you want to do with this, and how it works for you. You could create a trips collection, where you save articles related to travel, and inside that, you could create specific collections of articles about different places you want to visit. That's a little obsessive, but if you're the kind of person who's collecting links about comic books, there's a fair chance that you're a little obsessive anyway. As mentioned above, links can be categorised into different collections, which can also be nested - so for example, you could have a Comics collection, where you keep bookmarks to articles about comic books, and inside that, you can have nested collections for Marvel and DC. It was also a little slow - after we uploaded the HTML file of our Pocket links, it took around 10 minutes to add almost 6,000 links. Importing requires you to first export an HTML file from each source, and then upload that to Raindrop.io, which is a little cumbersome. You can also import links from your browser's bookmarks, or from sites like Pocket. It's pretty great, if you've spent the time categorising and tagging your links properly. You can search for your images and videos, and you can search through specific collections if you want. It sorts your links by date by default, and you can search for tags, words in the title, words in the body, and so on. Speaking of which, the search onRaindrop.io is excellent. There's also a broken link finder that goes through your saved links, and if any link isn't working, removes that too.īut perhaps the most important feature is suggested tags - Raindrop.io looks at the page's topics, and uses that to suggest tags, automatically helping you populate saved links with metadata that makes searching and rediscovering them simpler. There are also a couple of interesting features such as the duplicate finder - if you've been saving links for a long time, then it's quite possible that you've made copies of the same link more than once, and getting rid of that becomes quite easy now. To categorise links, you can either add tags, or sort them into collections, which is just another way of saying folders. It's a very good looking app, which makes it easy to save all kinds of content, sort, and categorise it too. Typically, we've used a combination of a read-later service (Pocket) for individual articles, and RSS feeds ( Feedly) to track brings both these features together in a way and allows for a lot of control over how your links are being saved. Secondly, while it's great for saving long articles to read, if you just want to bookmark a collection of pictures that you will need to use for work later, then Pocket isn't the best way to do it. It doesn't handle videos too well, or very consistently, for one thing. Or you could use a read-later service such as Pocket to save the page, which is great, but there are some issues with Pocket. You could store it as a bookmark in your browser, at which point you have a bookmark hidden away that you are probably never going to open. Or you could just leave the tab open and hope that you come back to it when you have time - which is how you end up with 127 tabs open and your computer barely responding to anything. You could read it right away, but we rarely have the time to read everything that we come across. Think of it like this - what do you do when you come across a great article you haven't read already? Well, there are a few different options available. It can also serve as a replacement for Pocket or Instapaper as your read-it-later service. All this with an interface that’s a lot easier on the eyes than a basic list of bookmarks. Raindrop.io - which is available on the Web as a browser extension for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Opera, and via apps for Android and iOS - lets you store your bookmarks and also makes it easier to organise them more efficiently. Secondly, almost every browser barely does the basics when it comes to bookmarks. For starters, even if you sync them across devices, your bookmarks are not accessible outside the browser. Most of us probably use the built-in bookmarks mangers on our browsers, but they are fairly limiting. Raindrop.io is a beautiful, powerful - but also slightly confusing - bookmark manager.
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