| I've been using Raindrop for about a year. It's just a much better bookmarking app than what's come before. It really comes down to UX. The browser integration is fantastic, and there's a really smooth native-feel Electron app that has an integrated browser. One of my favourite uses is creating a temporary "project-oriented" collection. For example, let's say I'm researching places to travel. I can create a collection about this, bookmark things (destinations, discussion threads, Wikipedia entries, etc.) as I go along, and then use the built-in browser to go back and forth between each bookmark as I make notes or whatever. Normally you'd use browser tabs for this, except the Raindrop way means I'm not consuming lots of browser resources, and the collection stays persistent even if I close it. The same workflow works for tech projects I work on (where I may want some documentation, papers, etc. "scrapbooked" in a temporary place), and many other things. Safari is the only browser (that I know) that has a similar kind of bookmark-oriented browsing functionality, and it's just not very good. Overall it's much nicer than the older services such as Delicious and Pinboard, not to mention the atrocious built-in bookmarking features in modern browsers, which have been ossifying since around 1998. |