Do you use a bookmark manager like raindrop.io?

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Whoa this sounds crazy. How are you dealing with cookies and sites that use authentication? When I tried to do automatic PDF archiving in DT in the past I kept running into issues that the session expires

Obsidian sounds interesting as well, didn’t consider using that for keeping track of bookmarks

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EagleFiler also offers the ability to keep (fully searchable) notes with a bookmark. It’s somewhat more lightweight than DT. It can also be set to prevent duplicate bookmarks. You can also pages as PDFs or Web Archives if you prefer.

It’s not as ‘visual’ as Raindrop.

I use the Safari reading list as my ‘must read this sometime’ list, although I can’t say I always get round to it! Occasionally I’ll put PDF web archives into EF (collector’s fallacy?) of things that look like they might be relevant one day, and search will uncover it if necessary. Tagging/adding notes can be useful here in making it easier to resurface.

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  • I use Nextdns.io which gets rid of a lot of cruft - but not all of it.
  • If I want a PDF from a paywalled site, then I have to manually create the PDF.
  • Cookie warnings don’t seem to show up in the PDFs (although I’m not sure why)
  • The main problem is lazy-loading images, which often don’t get captured in DT
  • A minority of pages don’t capture properly at all - but I’ve been unable to detect a pattern or common explanation for what doesn’t work.
  • The automated PDF archiving in DT works most of the time, but it’s definitely not bullet-proof.
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Hi - is the Raindrop.io academic discount still available? I couldn’t see anything on the site.

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You’ll need to email them from a .edu email address.

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Just curious, what is the discount %? Thanks.

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I tried using tools like DT for bookmarks but I ended up feeling less organized than I did without it. Having bookmarks at the same level as normal files didn’t click with me personally

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Yeah, I get that. I suppose you could keep bookmarks in separate group or vault.

I’m interested in trying Raindrop because it is very visual which looks helpful. A card view for Eaglefiler or DevonThink would make a huge difference to the ‘email like’ interfaces they currently have.

The paid-for ability of Raindrop to keep copies of web pages is a must for me - I’ve lost information before by just having a bookmark and the page moving or disappearing. I have tried the free version of the Mac app… ran into a problem when viewing a web page I couldn’t find any way to get back to the list! Maybe just me!

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It was 50% when I signed up, but you have to subscribe for year. For me, it’s worth it.

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Is anyone using Raindrop to store other files like PDFs and Word documents? Seems like a potentially good place for long term storage of articles and reports with easy access across devices alongside my web links.

Meanwhile… here’s yet another Mac/iOS bookmark manager, since we can never have too many apps around here. https://anybox.cc/

Anybox also supports saving notes, images, and files. You can save some frequently used snippets like ID numbers or Email addresses in Anybox, and then paste it directly with “Quick Find” from the Mac app, or copy it with a tap in the iOS app.

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For these cases I usually take a snapshot in DEVONthink as PDF or webarchive.
The approach someone mentioned to feed the RSS of raindrop into DEOVNthink and auto snapshot websites sounds very interesting and is still on my ‘to try’ list.

Thanks for anybox, visually it looks like exactly what I want. I’ll be giving that a try for sure

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I’ve been trialing anybox and so far really like it. It has some quirks that I’m not happy with, like lack of login into sites to grab the real title, but it’s a very nice new app with potential. I also don’t like that it tries to do text, images and other data types (I guess the name is ‘any’ box), and wish it kept to just bookmarks

I’ll be using that for a bit and see where it goes, but I prefer the native and local feel over raindrop which always felt a bit like I’m working out of a remote list

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Been using pinboard and then raindrop.io, now I’m using a plain text file, but I just need storage features

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Checking in a week later - Still using Anybox and still liking it. I have it side by side with raindrop but for some reason always end up using anybox. (Probably to a big part because it’s a native mac app)

It also has this system wide quick-open shortcut:

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The thing is that I don’t really need the premium features at all. Probably going to buy a lifetime license anyway to support the dev though.

Then maybe one of the only downsides of a system like this compared to browser bookmarks is, that I can’t autocomplete them from the browser URL bar. A sync from/to anybox would be sweet and something I’d pay for.

Anybox also has applescript support to save stuff to it which is very neat for us automation folks, just sadly no way (yet) to pull data out of anybox through the interface. Otherwise I might be able to glue myself a browser sync together somehow

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This ended up being a very good recommendation that fits my flow very well

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Hi there,

Dev of Anybox here. A user pointed me to here.

Just want to clarify, you can pull data out of Anybox with Apple Script, though only selected ones for now. I will support getting all the links with Apple Script in the next version.

This is a sample Apple Script:

tell application id "cc.anybox.Anybox"
	repeat with currentItem in selected documents
		set link to content of currentItem
		log link
	end repeat
end tell

Please let me know what kind of Apple Script support you need for accomplishing your tasks. I’m happy to implement.

l listen MPU regularly, but I don’t visit this website. You can contact me via shinystone.net@gmail.com.

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Hi and thanks for stopping by! Keep up the good work on Anybox! :slightly_smiling_face:

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I use Pinboard in combination with an Alfred workflow: GitHub - spamwax/alfred-pinboard-rs: Alfred Workflow for Pinboard (Rust) and the app Pins. I’m happy with Pinboard, it’s simple and does what it needs to do.

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