Dec 4: Goodbye, basic bookmarks! 👋 It's time for a more intuitive & powerful solution in 2022
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Dec 4: Goodbye, basic bookmarks! 👋 It's time for a more intuitive & powerful solution in 2022
Raindrop is the best place to keep all your favorite articles, books, songs, or whatever else you come across while browsing. Bonus: Share collections publicly!
The Problem and The Pitch
How do you browse the internet? 🏄♂️
Are you swimming 🏊 in a pool of tabs and bookmarks?
Say no more. There's a two-part solution: One today and one on Dec 21.
Your bookmark manager has obvious problems once you’re over ~30 bookmarks:
😮💨 Difficult to organize
🔍 Frustrating search capability
😵💫 Poor cross-platform experience
There's a simple (and free) solution to these problems 🙌...
Raindrop is your ⚔️ knight in shining armor. It is the gold standard for bookmark managers today.
You can organize your bookmarks 🔖 in a way that makes sense to you to keep track of all of your favorite books, songs, articles, or whatever else you come across while browsing.
What's special?
Raindrop does bookmarks well. And then wins 🏆 with its small, thoughtful features on top of the core experience.
😌 Super easy organizing with tags and folder collections. You can save and tag a webpage in 2 clicks
🤯 Fast, full-text search. Raindrop can search through the entire content of every bookmark and PDF you’ve saved, making it your personal Google! Bonus: There's Boolean search
📱 Robust app availability and uniform experience across mobile & desktop. Windows & Mac. Bookmarks are no longer isolated in one app
✨ Visual experience: Sometimes you can only identify a website you've visited after you see the image associated with it
🥰 Other delightful features:
Permanent copy: Even if a page is taken down, you'll still have a copy of it
Public sharing: You can publicly showcase any folder (here's an example)
IFTTT & Zapier integration: Autosave Youtube videos or Product Hunt upvotes
Save all tabs at once! You've done deep research and need to save all open tabs for future reference? Raindrop has you covered.
It also secured the #2 Product of the month 🥈 on Product Hunt.
🍓 Cherry on top: It has an 🥳 epic forever-free version. Without ads!
What more can I do with Raindrop?
✍️ Power users of note-taking apps like Roam Research and Obsidian will love how this productivity influencer seamlessly integrates Raindrop with note-taking.
🛰️ Check out Alfred for Mac. You can access your bookmarks right from your Alfred spotlight search bar. Blazing fast!
What’s next in the 🗓️ App Advent Calendar?
📚 Dec 5: Track books like a boss (Goodreads is soo 2010s)
⚡ Dec 6: Blazing fast universal search (Smart spotlight search for the web)
🤯 Dec 7: Notion for presentations (Fast, interactive presentations that are effortlessly beautiful)