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by Meph504 3220 days ago
Doesn't seem like a bad idea, but I can't see that the additional features are worth the effort of adding an additional tool to the shed. Evernote and OneNote extensions both offer similar (albeit lesser) functionality.

Also, you shouldn't be hotlinking to clipped site's images, this could cause you a fair amount of embarrassment, should someone decide to replace images with your refer with say goatse.

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Probably depends on what you are doing. If you only need simple bookmarking with some notes it is maybe really not worth the effort. However if you for example research something like an apartment, job, car, vacation. Or want to save movies, recipes, restaurants, ... and you want to sort/filter by any of the properties or you want to display pages with location information on a map, there is not much of an alternative right now. Sure, except if you count extracting the information manually, copy it into excel and setting pins by yourself on Google Maps. That takes literally hours without link.fish and a minute with.

Yes, the image situation is not great right now. Looking for a permanent solution is on my to-do-list.

I think you should really revisit the abilities of those two services they do far more than simply bookmark, they allow for content extraction, including images (which are then available across all your devices, offline.)

It also allows for in depth searching of that content, including performing OCR scanning of images, tagging, in the case of oneNote it allows you to create outlook task associated with them, export them to several formats.

Also in oneNote, you can also embed from repl.it, (think jsfiddle) which is how I handle any complex mapping needs.

Not to mention the countless other sites, that offer this sort of mapping functionality that you can then either embed, or screen clip the results of.

I'm not saying your product doesn't have value, but I think you underestimating what functionality is already out there.