On: Raindrop: All-in-One Bookmark Manager

[charles_f]

I used it for a year until maybe 12 months ago. The one thing that made me leave was that everything was juat slow enough to irritate me. Not crazy slow, but not very responsive either. When looking for a bookmark in a folder and each folder takes a couple seconds to load, then your browse becomes tedious.

I like that there's a good export function though, being able to be non committal to a tool is a prime feature IMO

[artdigital → charles_f]

That's the reason why I stopped using it too. It looked pretty but I didn't feel productive because of the laggy-ness

I shilled this yesterday as well, but anybox (https://anybox.cc) might be for you, that's what I am using currently. It's native on iOS/Mac, syncs with iCloud and is very keyboard centric with Command Palette, Quick Open, etc.

No connected cloud SaaS subscription service (though there is an iAP with one-time purchase option) or other bells&whistles, just a good simple native app that does what I want it to do

[isuleman → artdigital]

I don't trust anything with CC domain :{

[medstrom → isuleman]

Why? Is it mismanaged? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cc

> The .cc domain is preferred by many cricket and cycling clubs, as well as churches and Christian organizations, since "CC" can be an abbreviation for "Christian Church" or "Catholic Church". Some open-source/open-hardware projects, such as the Arduino project, use a .cc for their home pages, since "CC" is also the abbreviation for "Creative Commons", whose licenses are used in the projects.

[lf-non → charles_f]

Have been using raindrop for a couple months. Maybe it varies by collection size or location, but I rarely experience a request that takes more than a sec to complete.

[hexo → lf-non]

Thats still two orders longer than it should take

[travoltaj → hexo]

It should take 10 milliseconds?

[SAI_Peregrinus → travoltaj]

Most things should complete in 16ms or less. Preferably less, some people have monitors with faster refresh rates than that.

[molyss → SAI_Peregrinus]

Who cares about screen refresh rate? It’s not a FPS, if’s a webservice for bookmarking. If they can stay under 100ms, everyone would be fine. 16ms is starting to flirt with the limitations of your eye, without even taking into account info processing

[lostdog → travoltaj]

10ms to look at the bookmarks in a folder sounds slow to me. Are you querying network for the folder contents every time you open every folder?

[rnmp → charles_f]

Shameless plug but I’m working on a visual organization and bookmarking tool and feedback and input from someone like you would be crucial!

https://www.bleep.is

[myth_drannon → charles_f]

I also stopped because the extension was slow and unusable if you have a lot of tags

[rg111 → charles_f]

I used Notion for some months, and this is why I stopped using it. It is too slow.

Edit: Notion has no one-click exit options. That's also a bummer.

[charles_f → rg111]

Funny you should say that, I had the same experience, and when talking about that with a friend he told me that he never had any speed issues.

[exentrich → charles_f]

Raindrop servers located in Germany. Response time can be a slow if you too far away geographically. But we use caching intensively so it should not be a problem. Can you check again please?

[amitgupta6 → charles_f]

Yes. It is slow. This is precisely the reason I stopped using it.