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by haswell 2078 days ago
Thanks for sharing - this is very timely information. I've been trying to get my bookmarks under control, and I decided to start evaluating Raindrop.

My biggest issue up front was how slow and somewhat clunk it felt. For something that manages bookmarks, it needs to be fast an unobtrusive. It shouldn't feel like a chore to create a bookmark.

Maybe I was using it wrong.

In any case, I'm glad I'm ending the experiment early.

I truly hope they can sort these issues out.

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This very release is supposed to sort the speed issues out. Hopefully it does, because that's been my only complaint.

If you otherwise liked it, it might be worth taking a second look.

> It shouldn't feel like a chore to create a bookmark.

I feel that this is the problem with any bookmark manager, as they are going to be an extension, and you can't drag'n'drop to your navbar, or even see the bookmarks there.

On the other hand, I think their web-clipper (both extension and bookmarklet) works very well, considering you have more (optional) information to input, like the tags.

If I compare creating a chrome bookmark vs raindrop, without adding tags, just folder, I have the same number of clicks. So I'm not aware how they would make it feel less of a chore