[joshuahughes]

I've tried dozens of services through the years and have always come away disappointed. I literally just want to store a URL and the page title — just text will do. I don't want an overwhelming visual list of my bookmarks. I don't want the page content scraped and stored. I don't need to share my bookmarks (other than syncing across devices). I would like some easy way to flag and clean up old 404-ing bookmarks. Simple categorisation or tagging. And a simple one-click add-to-inbox plugin that'd work on all my browsers including on iOS. And I'd like a good-looking UI — not an ugly mess like Pinboard. And of course there should be a solid export interface so that users aren't locked into some proprietary data structure.

As a product designer I'd love to sink my teeth into this problem but unfortunately it's a dev-heavy project and that's outside my comfort-zone.

For now I'm sticking with my fallback solution — dozens of 'link dump' notes in the Mac Notes app. It's searchable, lightweight, and flexible but a nightmare to manage. There must be something better out there.

[mrzool]

> And I'd like a good-looking UI — not an ugly mess like Pinboard.

I’ve been using Pinboard for the last 10 years or so and I’m super happy with it. Love the speed, the text-heavy interface and the high information density. I love that it never changes. I use a separate app my phone (the website is unusable on mobile) and it works great. I don’t need anything more.

[irongeek]

I would add that the API makes Pinboard even more powerful. Add to Pinboard then use the API to do whatever you like. This can be as simple as a CLI curl. If you understand the power of the Pinboard API you would appreciate it far more.

[chrbr]

I've been messing around with raindrop.io recently, and it certainly fixes the "ugly" problem of Pinboard. It does some things you say you don't want - page content scraped and stored - but give it a look.

https://raindrop.io/

[caviv]

Try https://yabs.io