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Hi @pratio - thank you for the great questions! 1) How does this work? Whenever you encounter an interesting resource, say a podcast, a blog post, a newsletter,
by louisfialho 5y ago
Hi @pratio - thank you for the great questions!
1) How does this work? Whenever you encounter an interesting resource, say a podcast, a blog post, a newsletter, or a video, you can save it to your Shelf - either by using Telegram Bot from mobile or the 'Add' button from desktop. Once the resource is added to your shelf, you can assign it to a space, say "Neuroscience", in order to keep your resources organized. Finally, you can add notes to a resource in order to retain key insights, and share those with others if needed. For the v1 I focused on the 3 main pain points I had - save, organize and annotate resources - so that's pretty much it! Let me know what features would you like to see next!
2) What's the privacy policy? Every shelf is public for now. I believe in "open-source" knowledge and "learning in public". Knowledge is better shared than kept.
3) Is there a pricing plan at some point? Some users might adhere to 2) but still want private spaces. In this case, they could have to pay a small tax, say $2.99 for privacy (similar to GitHub's business model).
4) What's the limit? No limit! The beauty of technology is that, unlike our brains, it offers almost unlimited storage.
5) Send data using a telegram bot to a service? What kind of data can be sent? You can send URLs to Shelf Bot - those will be added directly to your Shelf and formatted accordingly (e.g. a URL for a podcast will be rendered as a podcast resource in Shelf)
6) Is this an alternative to pocket? Pocket is an amazing tool but it is almost 15 years old and quite abandoned by Firefox. This is a shame. I believe every user of the internet needs a place to save, organize and annotate information. Pocket could be 10xed.
- pratio 5y agoI don't think that it's obvious from the website that the bookmarks are public? I understand the belief in opensource knowledge but a user would've to find a separate private place for stuff they don't want to share with the world. I think it should be mentioned that there's a plan to monetize this before users start using this a repository. > Knowledge is better shared than kept. Yes, but if a site like this offered to cache the webpages that i send so that if the site disappears the pages remain available
- louisfialho 5y agoAgreed 100% - I have to clearly communicate that profiles are public by default, and add an option to make spaces / resources private! I did not realize how important this was to users, as I was using it mainly for myself until now. Thank you for the feedback!