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The future beyond bookmarking - Welcome to new Kippt

85 points by jorde 14y ago

abdophoto 14y ago
This is great. I used Snip.it up until Yahoo purchased them and I've been using Pocket to save my articles. This might solve the problem of using two apps. Nice work!
kirillzubovsky 14y ago
I have been using the new version for a few months , it's awesome! Definitely give this a try. If you follow interesting people, then you no longer need to read news or tech blogs; all the good content magically falls into your inbox. I love this more than any RSS. I am Kippt.com/kirill , if you want to say hi.
- zachacole 14y ago
  Completely agree. I've been using Kippt for a few months as well and it's already become my favorite news discovery engine.
sunnybunny 14y ago
Wish it could be my new google reader... but alas, no rss feed input...
- jorde 14y ago
  (Kippt's developer here) Polling feeds is quite resource intensive and something we don't really have the resources (mainly the implementation). This is definitely that could be easily implemented with something like Superfeedr and our API - I have been thinking of implementing this as a weekend project.
webwanderings 14y ago
My conscience doesn't allow me to give "my bookmarks" to anyone. I'd rather keep it to myself in my browser, safe and secured, moving with me through its sync feature, wherever I go. If you want me to use your service, I'd rather you provide a sync service instead which will guarantee that my bookmarks would be with me today as they are five minutes ago, or five months ago. The web is better off not using more of the propriety stuff. Sorry, nothing personal against Kippt which is a fine service, but I am no longer moved by new features or nice looking UIs.
dabeeeenster 14y ago
How about an Android App? Or at least a "Share" plugin for Android - sorely lacking!
- jorde 14y ago
  There's couple of 3rd partyAndroid apps already available on Play Market. I also heard few days ago that there will be a new one available within a week which looked pretty sweet based on the screenshots (unfortunately I don't know the name).
danso 14y ago
You're obviously aiming for a more design-focused crowd, but why I've stuck to pinboard.in for so long is because I don't want the primary display of my bookmarks to be a gallery of thumbnails. I'm usually bookmarking interesting articles or essays and the best way for me to sort through those is a good use of tag filters and search...anything else, including images, is just noise. However, that's different if what you're doing is bookmarking visual elements. But if that's the case, it's hard to be Pinterest.
- shurcooL 14y ago
  Why can't we have both? Sometimes I just want to bookmark a textual article, and Pinterest doesn't let me because it doesn't have an image. I have to manually search for any image on Google Image search, save it to my desktop, upload that as my Pin and edit the url to point to the text-only article I wanted to bookmark. Other times I want to bookmark something with a thumbnail, so Pinterest or this Kippt would be great, while Chrome's bookmarks, pinboard.in, a text file, would not be great. I want something that supports both, so I could save all my bookmarks in one place and be able to search for "something from 2-3 days ago" regardless whether it had a picture associated with it or not. Personally, the most important feature of a bookmarking approach for me right now is the ability to see a timeline of things, most recently added first. Filter by tags, search, etc. second.
  - mjmsmith 14y ago
    Sounds like http://clipboard.com http://clipboard.com does everything you want.
    - shurcooL 14y ago
      Cool, but does it have tags/labels too?
      - mjmsmith 14y ago
        Yes, you can put an item into multiple boards (basically, top-level folders), and assign multiple tags in notes #like #this. I've been using it for a few months and my only real disappointment is the lack of an API.
crisnoble 14y ago
Just in time. I was about to switch over to Dragdis but these thumbnails are bringing me back. I have tried zoo tool gimmie bar, mustache, delicious, evernote and xmarks, but Kippt is the only one I have have used for more than 6 months. The tags and collections put Kippt at number one in my book.
staltz 14y ago
I almost love it. It has everything to be loved. Except a hierarchical structure for links, like bookmark folders. I can't organize hundreds of links just with lists, because in the best situation I get dozens of lists with a dozen links in each, which isn't really good organization. :/
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kmfrk 14y ago
I can only speak for myself, but the way I go about bookmarks is: - Image-based bookmarks: Pinterest - Everything else: Opera bookmarks (inline search beyond compare) One of the main allures of using an image-based bookmark site like Pinterest is that link rot won't matter, since I will always have the images I intended to bookmark. As they say like Sesame Street: "One of these things is not like the other." The two types of bookmark don't really mesh that well.
instakill 14y ago
I don't know how to discover new lists now (only people but I don't care about people only interesting lists). Why was that feature scrapped? Or am I just not finding it?
- jorde 14y ago
  The old discovery was pretty bad and we decided to focus on launching the essentials first. We're already indexing all our lists and also normalizing links with new Kippt so it's only matter of time once we get some cool discovery tools out again. I hope this explains it.
mrgold 14y ago
Kippt, what I like about you guys is that you never seem to go away. It looks like you're in it for the long haul, with both feet in (to mix metaphors). I'll give you a try this time!
raylu 14y ago
What is the point of the popup that appears when I click a link? How is this ever better than taking me to the link?
- meanderingman 14y ago
  I was thinking the same thing. Its odd that clicking on a bookmark brings this odd popup instead of loading the content I was trying to reach.
personlurking 14y ago
Is there any service like this that would let me not just link to the material I want but actually save the content? or does Kippt do this? I ask because a while back I started a private blog just for my own eyes where I started saving entire articles I enjoyed reading (in case the links go bad).
- belthasar 14y ago
  http://gimmebar.com http://gimmebar.com does that for you. It saves the page as an image.
- kumkap 14y ago
  Checkout http://www.surfmark.com http://www.surfmark.com The bookmarklet saves the entire html and the firefox extension saves the pages as an image
  - kumkap 14y ago
    It does much more - but could serve your purpose
- StavrosK 14y ago
  https://www.historio.us https://www.historio.us saves the entire text.
- icebraining 14y ago
  Pinboard does, for $25/year. I've tried to find a self-hosted solution, but haven't been able to do so yet.
- alecdbrooks 14y ago
  Pinboard.in does this too. The site's founder, Maciej Cegłowsk has a nice post comparing Pinboard's archives to other sites': http://blog.pinboard.in/2010/11/bookmark_archives_that_don_t/ http://blog.pinboard.in/2010/11/bookmark_archives_that_don_t.... (Note: May be out of date.)
- enra 14y ago
timooo 14y ago
This is amazing!
k8si 14y ago
Requests: - Integration with Feedly (my Feedly saves go to Kippt) - Integration with Delicious (or however you spell it) - Tag completion based on most-used tags - I use Reddit Enhancement Suite. It would be cool if somehow you could make it so Kippt can save RES inline images s.t. I don't have to click the Imgur link to bookmark the image, if that makes sense I've tried out so many (great) bookmarking and news aggregator services over the past couple months that I now need a bookmarking aggregator to aggregate the bookmarks from the news aggregators.
jenntoda 14y ago
The list view works better for articles than the default tile view. I find myself creating two different types of collections: 1. lists of articles (bookmarks), and 2. collection of images (pinterest). Since I use them differently (1 for targeted search, 2 for visual inspiration), the different views work well for their respective purposes. There is also a little hidden notes feature that lets me write simple mental notes. Good-bye clonky Evernote, too-much-distraction Pinterest, and out-of-sync browse bookmarks. Kippt FTW!
jurassic 14y ago
I prefer list view to tiles, but I wish the text wrapped at a more readable width. On a large monitor, reading the small excerpts as a single truncated line isn't the greatest experience.
jameswyse 14y ago
This looks awesome - I've probably every similar service out there and I've never found one I'm fully happy with, here's hoping this one is it! I've been using gimmebar mainly to save full screenshots of web designs I like for inspiration - A way to import those would be awesome! <3

85 points by jorde 14y ago

This is great. I used Snip.it up until Yahoo purchased them and I've been using Pocket to save my articles. This might solve the problem of using two apps. Nice work!

kirillzubovsky 14y ago

I have been using the new version for a few months , it's awesome! Definitely give this a try. If you follow interesting people, then you no longer need to read news or tech blogs; all the good content magically falls into your inbox. I love this more than any RSS. I am Kippt.com/kirill , if you want to say hi.

zachacole 14y ago
Completely agree. I've been using Kippt for a few months as well and it's already become my favorite news discovery engine.

sunnybunny 14y ago

Wish it could be my new google reader... but alas, no rss feed input...

jorde 14y ago
(Kippt's developer here) Polling feeds is quite resource intensive and something we don't really have the resources (mainly the implementation). This is definitely that could be easily implemented with something like Superfeedr and our API - I have been thinking of implementing this as a weekend project.

webwanderings 14y ago

My conscience doesn't allow me to give "my bookmarks" to anyone. I'd rather keep it to myself in my browser, safe and secured, moving with me through its sync feature, wherever I go. If you want me to use your service, I'd rather you provide a sync service instead which will guarantee that my bookmarks would be with me today as they are five minutes ago, or five months ago. The web is better off not using more of the propriety stuff. Sorry, nothing personal against Kippt which is a fine service, but I am no longer moved by new features or nice looking UIs.

dabeeeenster 14y ago

How about an Android App? Or at least a "Share" plugin for Android - sorely lacking!

jorde 14y ago
There's couple of 3rd partyAndroid apps already available on Play Market. I also heard few days ago that there will be a new one available within a week which looked pretty sweet based on the screenshots (unfortunately I don't know the name).

danso 14y ago

You're obviously aiming for a more design-focused crowd, but why I've stuck to pinboard.in for so long is because I don't want the primary display of my bookmarks to be a gallery of thumbnails. I'm usually bookmarking interesting articles or essays and the best way for me to sort through those is a good use of tag filters and search...anything else, including images, is just noise. However, that's different if what you're doing is bookmarking visual elements. But if that's the case, it's hard to be Pinterest.

shurcooL 14y ago
Why can't we have both? Sometimes I just want to bookmark a textual article, and Pinterest doesn't let me because it doesn't have an image. I have to manually search for any image on Google Image search, save it to my desktop, upload that as my Pin and edit the url to point to the text-only article I wanted to bookmark. Other times I want to bookmark something with a thumbnail, so Pinterest or this Kippt would be great, while Chrome's bookmarks, pinboard.in, a text file, would not be great. I want something that supports both, so I could save all my bookmarks in one place and be able to search for "something from 2-3 days ago" regardless whether it had a picture associated with it or not. Personally, the most important feature of a bookmarking approach for me right now is the ability to see a timeline of things, most recently added first. Filter by tags, search, etc. second.
- mjmsmith 14y ago
  Sounds like http://clipboard.com http://clipboard.com does everything you want.
  - shurcooL 14y ago
    Cool, but does it have tags/labels too?
    - mjmsmith 14y ago
      Yes, you can put an item into multiple boards (basically, top-level folders), and assign multiple tags in notes #like #this. I've been using it for a few months and my only real disappointment is the lack of an API.

crisnoble 14y ago

Just in time. I was about to switch over to Dragdis but these thumbnails are bringing me back. I have tried zoo tool gimmie bar, mustache, delicious, evernote and xmarks, but Kippt is the only one I have have used for more than 6 months. The tags and collections put Kippt at number one in my book.

staltz 14y ago

I almost love it. It has everything to be loved. Except a hierarchical structure for links, like bookmark folders. I can't organize hundreds of links just with lists, because in the best situation I get dozens of lists with a dozen links in each, which isn't really good organization. :/

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kmfrk 14y ago

I can only speak for myself, but the way I go about bookmarks is: - Image-based bookmarks: Pinterest - Everything else: Opera bookmarks (inline search beyond compare) One of the main allures of using an image-based bookmark site like Pinterest is that link rot won't matter, since I will always have the images I intended to bookmark. As they say like Sesame Street: "One of these things is not like the other." The two types of bookmark don't really mesh that well.

instakill 14y ago

I don't know how to discover new lists now (only people but I don't care about people only interesting lists). Why was that feature scrapped? Or am I just not finding it?

jorde 14y ago
The old discovery was pretty bad and we decided to focus on launching the essentials first. We're already indexing all our lists and also normalizing links with new Kippt so it's only matter of time once we get some cool discovery tools out again. I hope this explains it.

mrgold 14y ago

Kippt, what I like about you guys is that you never seem to go away. It looks like you're in it for the long haul, with both feet in (to mix metaphors). I'll give you a try this time!

raylu 14y ago

What is the point of the popup that appears when I click a link? How is this ever better than taking me to the link?

meanderingman 14y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Its odd that clicking on a bookmark brings this odd popup instead of loading the content I was trying to reach.

personlurking 14y ago

Is there any service like this that would let me not just link to the material I want but actually save the content? or does Kippt do this? I ask because a while back I started a private blog just for my own eyes where I started saving entire articles I enjoyed reading (in case the links go bad).

belthasar 14y ago
http://gimmebar.com http://gimmebar.com does that for you. It saves the page as an image.
kumkap 14y ago
Checkout http://www.surfmark.com http://www.surfmark.com The bookmarklet saves the entire html and the firefox extension saves the pages as an image
- kumkap 14y ago
  It does much more - but could serve your purpose
StavrosK 14y ago
https://www.historio.us https://www.historio.us saves the entire text.
icebraining 14y ago
Pinboard does, for $25/year. I've tried to find a self-hosted solution, but haven't been able to do so yet.
alecdbrooks 14y ago
Pinboard.in does this too. The site's founder, Maciej Cegłowsk has a nice post comparing Pinboard's archives to other sites': http://blog.pinboard.in/2010/11/bookmark_archives_that_don_t/ http://blog.pinboard.in/2010/11/bookmark_archives_that_don_t.... (Note: May be out of date.)
enra 14y ago

timooo 14y ago

This is amazing!

k8si 14y ago

Requests: - Integration with Feedly (my Feedly saves go to Kippt) - Integration with Delicious (or however you spell it) - Tag completion based on most-used tags - I use Reddit Enhancement Suite. It would be cool if somehow you could make it so Kippt can save RES inline images s.t. I don't have to click the Imgur link to bookmark the image, if that makes sense I've tried out so many (great) bookmarking and news aggregator services over the past couple months that I now need a bookmarking aggregator to aggregate the bookmarks from the news aggregators.

jenntoda 14y ago

The list view works better for articles than the default tile view. I find myself creating two different types of collections: 1. lists of articles (bookmarks), and 2. collection of images (pinterest). Since I use them differently (1 for targeted search, 2 for visual inspiration), the different views work well for their respective purposes. There is also a little hidden notes feature that lets me write simple mental notes. Good-bye clonky Evernote, too-much-distraction Pinterest, and out-of-sync browse bookmarks. Kippt FTW!

jurassic 14y ago

I prefer list view to tiles, but I wish the text wrapped at a more readable width. On a large monitor, reading the small excerpts as a single truncated line isn't the greatest experience.

jameswyse 14y ago

This looks awesome - I've probably every similar service out there and I've never found one I'm fully happy with, here's hoping this one is it! I've been using gimmebar mainly to save full screenshots of web designs I like for inspiration - A way to import those would be awesome! <3