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for bookmarking articles, you have https://getpocket.com/ and https://www.instapaper.com/

"Social bookmarking" started with deli.co.us and has largely been subsumed by reddit.

Beyond some level of complexity, Evernote, Obsidian, Notion, etc become bookmarking tools

...but the ultimate place to find the bookmark managers are in the Chrome and Firefox extension stores:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/category...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/bookmark?_category...

There doesn't seem to be any money at all in this space, and any really groundbreaking innovation will be folded in by the browser vendors, so I don't expect there to be much more thwn what's already here.

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I think there's a fertile middle ground in the triangle between wikipedia, reddit and pinboard.

why wikipedia? I can see reddit + pinboard.

Bookmark as reference page / community cork board. Invert the "feed" structure. Instead of going to r/whatever, see new comments on all of your saved bookmarks.

Can also piggyback off / strangler fig existing website structure. Ex. bookmarks to titles on goodreads.

Add in a similarity graph (people also bookmarked x), and a democratic way to merge bookmarks that point to the same object.

And if you want to get really nutso, add a resource management system where ppl pay for attention - mint bookmarks as NFTs, commenting has a cost, invest in a bookmark to boost global visibility and get a % of commenting cost

Why just invert, when you can offer multiple view simultaneously ? :

1- We keep the r/whatever (subject matter) stream like view

2- We can always have that enhanced "saved bookmarks" view you talked about. They are not mutually exclusive.

3- To expand on your "reference page" (Wikipedia-like) idea, the bookmarks should be more malleable: We ought to be able to collaborate on reorganizing them under different tag-systems/hierarchies (while they keep their original comments and score)

So it is 3 complementary views: stream view (current Reddit/HN link-posts), personal view (current bookmark managers), and reference view (a more structured “awesome lists”)

Most sites do have at least two (mostly 1+2), but one at least is always rudimentary (like the HN favourites). I myself tried to combine 2+3 (for a private team) using the coda raindrop pack https://coda.io/packs/raindrop-io-11475

Yeah, good points. #3, "tag cloud" idea is great, and lends itself to view by tag.

I'm coming at it from the direction, where I see the primary action as "collecting" / "cultivating". Ex.

1. See an article you like

2. add it to bookmarks/instantiate the global bookmark

3. curate it a bit - add an archive link, some tags, link to related article

and then the reward is

4. get notified when someone else bookmarks it + comments, a week or a month later

so the inversion is - on HN/reddit, something gets posted once and there's a big discussion and it disappears. this is the opposite where the page grows over time

How did your project turn out?

You are correct. The primary action is key.

Yesterday, a Show HN [1] was an RSS reader that displays related HN/Redddit comments. I can imagine bookmark managers alerting you in a similar fashion. It will not be as integrated as you specified (single thread by link...), but the scale will be much bigger : Theoretically you can link it (crawl/api) to any site, then you get a dashboard+notification on your existing bookmarks for new

- discussion threads (HN/Reddit...)

- annotations/notes (Hypothesis.is...)

- reviews (alternativeto.net...)

My coda/raindrop "project" is just a "doc template" we use sometimes to organize bookmarks in a small team. It is not supposed to scale beyond that. Many Coda features [2] come handy.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34188734

[2] like voting, grouping columns, collapsing outlines, hover cards, and word/tag clouds

The closest thing I've seen is https://ampie.app/, which goes in a similar direction. I bounced off of it (too cluttered, privacy concerns w browser extensions), but it has a lot of the pieces there.

Cool sites, related, yes, agreed about "social bookmarking", but feels like, why do we create all of these "awesome list" for GitHub then, like that's a way to share a curated list of links, kinda like deli.co.us.

audience

GitHub is the logical place for an “awesome react” list even if it’s not necessarily intended for that.

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