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Reminds me of the bookmark keyword feature from Firefox. It's possible to hack into Chrome by setting sites as search providers. http://lifehacker.com/5476033/

• mikeshi42 10y ago
  Yup! I've tried this solution myself but just found it incredibly hacky and un-intuitive. I hope the nicer UX (hotkeys!) allows for a better experience. In the future I hope to plan to have better syncing (cloud, sync into a traditional bookmark for mobile use), x-platform, share w/ others, tighter omnibar integration, etc. But you're right that there are reasonable solutions out there currently, but I hope Shortlink provides a lower barrier to entry and less configurations to fuss over. As for Firefox, I'm not really a user myself, I've just tried it real quick and it seems like you have to type quite a bit to get the omnibar(?) to prioritize the bookmark result over the other autocompletes, as for shortlink you can type m/[shortlink] and be guaranteed to hop over to the site you saved. Good food for thought though!
  • discreditable 10y ago
    > it seems like you have to type quite a bit to get the omnibar(?) to prioritize the bookmark result over the other autocompletes Not exactly. Once you set the keyword, you can type the keyword and press enter. Here I use hn to reach Hacker News and sd to reach Slashdot: http://imgur.com/a/EaRCo http://imgur.com/a/EaRCo
    • mikeshi42 10y ago
      Got it! Didn't realize you set them in properties. I guess to differentiate, I could work on shortlink-only search queries in the omnibar as well (and more powerful organization). Thanks for the demo!