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Show HN: BookmarkOS – an online desktop for keeping your bookmarks organized

• TenJack 11y ago
  Hi Hacker News, BookmarkOS is an online desktop for organizing, sorting, and browsing your bookmarks. Quick origin, I eventually gave up trying to keep my Chrome bookmarks organized and started dragging urls to my desktop and discovered that using a GUI is a great way to manage bookmarks. For example, can't find a bookmark you opened last week? Click 'View all' and sort by last opened. Also, for me, it's easier to find a bookmark by visualizing where it is versus having to guess with search or tags. And browsing my bookmarks on BookmarkOS is a new habit that I never did before. I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback on the site. Also, the site is currently on Product Hunt! Cheers, Dave
• apjana 11y ago
  +1. I wrote a poor man's cmdline bookmark manager myself - Buku (https://github.com/jarun/Buku https://github.com/jarun/Buku).
  • TenJack 11y ago
    Cool! It would be awesome if you could have the SQLite3 database file backed up somehow
    • apjana 11y ago
      personally I use Dropbox for that.
      • TenJack 11y ago
        Is the backup automated?
        • apjana 11y ago
          As long as you are using Dropbox you can create a symbolic link to the original DB file.
          • TenJack 11y ago
            Oh, cool!
• explorigin 11y ago
  I'd pay money if there was browser sync. Looks nice though.
  • TenJack 11y ago
    Can you please specify what exact thing would make you want to keep using bookmarks in your browser? Is it the convenience of the browser save that you like?
    • hotcool 11y ago
      Take these "I'd buy if..." comments with a grain of salt. Some people are simply not interested yet will grasp at any excuse not to buy. Congratulations on making this fantastic app!
      • TenJack 11y ago
        Thanks for the support!
• nerdgasm0 11y ago
  ... Or you could use the excellent Bookmark Manager for Chrome, by Google: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmark-manager/gmlllbghnfkpflemihljekbapjopfjik?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmark-manager/g...
  • hotcool 11y ago
    Or you could support an independent developer for what looks like a superior solution.
• hamsternipples 11y ago
  nice! it would be really cool if I could not only save the url, but the content of the page as well. I say that because I've saved many sites to disk because links break and mirroring those between machines is annoying.
  • TenJack 11y ago
    Thanks for the feedback! This will likely end up a Pro feature in the future with the ability to search the page content as well.
• kelt 11y ago
  Looking great! Fits my needs! Although $6 (for now) isn't much but I'm a little afraid you might go out of business? You have long term plans to keep this running?
  • TenJack 11y ago
    I'll never go out of business. I'm a full stack web dev, so it doesn't cost me much to keep it running. Plus, I really want this site for myself, so I'll never let it go away!
• cyansmoker 11y ago
  Very nice. I am considering giving it a serious try but an important "feature" to me is the ability to export bookmarks in order to avoid vendor lock-in. Any plans for that?
  • TenJack 11y ago
    Export is important. You can do that now in Settings.
    • cyansmoker 11y ago
      Cheers!