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Show HN: Klipbook, a new online bookmarking tool

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Looks nice, but again...:

  * another closed source service ?
  * Are there import/export options ?
  * There is not even a RSS feed ?

Sorry for looking like parasiting a topic, but I need to rant: I'm sick of close-source online bookmarking services, especially when I can't import/export all my data. So I'm moving away from them. I want to have control. This my data.

I developed my own bookmarking application, Shaarli (opensource, bookmarklet, html import/export, private links, tag cloud, picture wall, "daily" digest and many other features). http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:shaarli

My own instance is: http://sebsauvage.net/links/

I don't say hosted services are bad, but I'm definitely done with them.

RSS functionality and exporting will be available in a little while.

I wanted users to be able to import Delicious links upon sign-up but my developer ran into some trouble with the Delicious API limits. So I'm looking into alternatives.

(Perhaps I'll need to get users to export their Delicious links and upload them to Klipbook. -- If anybody have any suggestions or alternatives, I'd love to hear them.)

Good to know you're working on it.

In my experience, Netscape bookmarks html export worked better. But even then I experienced a lot of broken exports from online bookmarking services. This is a pain. Good luck with that.

How many services are there where you can't import/export your data? I run one (http://historio.us/) and import/export has been available from day 1, it's pretty much the most requested feature after actual storage of bookmarks.

I used to be a delicious user. Their export was broken for several months, and they did not show signs of wanting to fix it. I had to write a Python script to backup my data by parsing their HTML pages.

Regarding Diigo, their Firefox extension sends every visisted URL to their server. Thanks for the respect of my privacy.

Enough is enough.

Gratz, Shaarli is pretty cool. Diigo is quite decent, but now I rather run Shaarli on localhost. Archival feature would be great, even if it just shells out to httrack. If used on a local machine, the disk space is not a great concern.

With 0.0.40 beta, I was having the problem about "Wrong login/password" and "Wrong token". It would be great if you could apply the fix described by this user:

lgaggini, 2012/11/10 18:59, http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:shaarli:discussio...

> I host last beta of shaarli (0.0.40) on my local network and I access it by custom name defined in clients hosts file and relative virtual host configuration in my nginx web server. My browser is Chromium (22.0.1229.94 (161065)). After the first configuration, every time I try to login I receive the Wrong login/pass error. After some investigation and debugging I discover a problem with cookie management (only in Chromium, in Firefox all work flawlessly). With the default code and Chromium, the cookie is correctly written by the browser, but it's not retrieved so all checks performed on sessions value (mainly tokenOK() and isLoggedIn()) fail. To fix I have to replace, in the main code index.php, the session cookie path parameter, from dirname($_SERVER[“SCRIPT_NAME”]).'/' to dirname($_SERVER[“SCRIPT_NAME”]) (short story, i remove the trailing /). I hope to help someone else with similar problem. Regards and keep up the good work.

Thanks :-)

Oh, and thanks for the bug report regarding the cookie path. I did not pinpoint this behaviour before. (And I currently lack time to update Shaarli.)

For the archival feature, you use the export option (in tools menu), then import it later to restore. Or you can backup all files located in the "data" subdirectory.

Shaarli grew too fast and I did not expect to have so many people interested in it (This is a typical scratch-an-itch project). I plan a complete rewrite, with multi-users support and many other features (I have a heavy to-do/feature request list :-)

Well here's my account: http://klipbook.net/brainfilter

I was going for a minimalist home page, but I'll probably end up create a "tour video" to embed on the home page.

What I assume is your user bio is in the wrong place. Because it's placed under the logo, I assumed it was the general description of the site and led to me asking 'who are you?'. It should be placed under your username.

Also, why do you hate religion?

How is this different to pinboard? except for the embedded multimedia. For me pinboard has the whole package in terms of features. Especially being able to search a tag and see other people's bookmarks. Not sure why I would switch to this though.

Other than that I think its a nice project.

Network-wide searching is a feature on the to-do (once there are enough users to make it worthwhile).

I don't see the value add over the many existing bookmarking services. What am I missing?

Well, it embeds multimedia into the page and it has a more readable, less cluttered design compared to Delicious.

checkout http://getpocket.com

IMHO, I think Klipbook is more streamlined, visually and functionally.

Also, with Klipbook other people can discover your links (and eventually will be able to follow them).

Have you tried setting up a new Tumblr (they throw in a minimalist theme to start) and use its bookmarklet to gather the links? Bookmarking cannot be more minimalist than that.

I think it's good overall. I specially like the idea of your links being public so that people can see what you are doing.

Is there a way to input links to Klipbbok externally. Like a plugin or bookmarlet?

I have a developer working on a bookmarklet. In a few weeks I hope to have an API ready for apps, browser extensions, etc.

Nice! I will check it out!

For anyone who is interested, a bookmarklet is now available. Browser extensions should be ready in a week or so.

Some kind of introduction from the devs would be nice. I'm not going to register just to see how it works.

Sorry about that. Check out http://klipbook.net/brainfilter/

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