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I am a developer by day and jump from device to device and browser to browser. I hated having all of my bookmarks tied to one or the other so I created Zapmarks!
Also, being a small business owner, I wear many hats and have lots of different accounts for everything. It's great coming up with a keyword in your head and knowing it will take you directly to what you want it to.
For example, I have many Google Drive accounts for different things, I have 'drive' set up to go to my personal Google Drive and 'drive2' goes to my business Google Drive. Since I know this and have built that muscle-memory, I can get directly to exactly what I need very efficiently! Here are a few other Zapmarks I use frequently, as examples...
vzw = Verizon Wireless Account budget = Google Drive Personal Budget Sheet qb = QuickBooks Online bank = Online Banking fbm = Facebook Messenger en = Evernote gh = GitHub
I have lots planned for Zapmarks! Give it a shot and let me know if you have any questions!
Alternatively, I can see it being a "start page" sort of thing with support for efficient keyboard search, but again this doesn't strike me as something dramatically more useful than a static HTML page with Ctrl-F for search.
This basically solves a trivial problem in a somewhat overcomplicated way while creating a paid dependency on external service.
Good luck!
Yep, query strings are on our list! Thanks for checking things out!
- Are variables allowed in the links?
- Can you set it as the default search engine for your browser so these can just be typed into the main search bar instead of going to the Zapmarks site each time?
Firefox's built in keywords already do great for this, and I have seen https://shortmarks.com/ for other browsers. What does your site offer that those do not? They are both free options.
Yes, you can manually change your default search engine using this url. Substitute %s for whatever your query string variable is for your device/browser.
https://zapmarks.io/u/%s?api_token=your-api-token-here
On Chrome, you can simply install our extension which allows you to type 'z {keyword}' to access your Zapmarks. Other native browser extensions are in the works as well.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zapmarks/pdomgldhp...
We have a few benefits over the competitors, like Secret Access Links which allows you to use your Zapmarks on new browsers and devices without logging in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr4dPcnrUMM
Also, we are working hard on developing lots of other ways to integrate our product into other devices and platforms, like Alfred on the Mac.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/graftechnology/zapmarks/Zapmarks.al...
Hope that answers your questions. Thanks!
I’m a big fan of bookmaking services. Having better ways of managing your saved information is important to me. I run https://trackr.sh that serves a similar goal.
Why did you pick a single keyword to identify your bookmarks? I use a similar workflow in Firefox vit found that it doesn’t scale for a lot of bookmarks. For https://trackr.sh I chose to go with a multi tag combination where you select a number of tags to narrow down your list of bookmarks.
Sorry if my comment came across as self promotion!
I love Pinboard. I was lucky to have bought the lifetime license during one of the promos.
Free App, Shiori[2] on the Desktop is an excellent companion.
I use either Spillo or Alfred workflows now on Mac.
If they keep the same place, now you have to manage not only the content but also the order. If they shift around according to some metric like 'most used' then you have to visually search for the correct tile.
And this is assuming that the collection is small. Otherwise paging or some other kind of grouping has to be used which is horrible.
Tiles aren't even that easy to use. They always require visually processing and then coordinating the action. With typing it's just muscle memory.
They also require some kind of image which adds another dimension the problem. Now those tiles have to look good, or be colored according to some kind of logic. This styling can also impact usability, e.g. getting the icon/logo of the site can look ugly.
Tiles make sense in a touch context environment like mobile or tablets where typing can be cumbersome. But in a desktop environment it would be a lot worse.
We have thought about maybe having your top 3 most-used Zapmarks appear under the search bar for quick access, but not sure if that's something we will move forward with or not. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Anyways not raining on you’re parade. It’s a cool concept just doesn’t fit the use case I’d prefer. Best of luck with it!
I miss foxmarks. I pay for another service, but you have to log in at least once. Firefox accounts and thus bookmarks are blocked at work.
With suggested results, you might get to the main Drive account but then will have to go through a series of steps to "switch accounts" to whatever account you're looking to access.
This is one of the big differences. Thanks for checking us out!
I think it works as intended about 95% of the time. It'd be nice to be able to add to a simple Map<Keyword, Url> table that the "suggested URL" feature can use as a fallback.
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What are Zapmarks? Zapmarks are custom keywords, used to get you right to your favorite websites.
That's just one example, but at the core, that's the difference. You could access Zapmarks on your Kindle browser or your refrigerators smart display if you really wanted to.
In either case, most of the time when I type "n" I get HN or "m" for mail and so forth. I can't really see a good use case for this.