This video was actually on point, had a good pace, provided useful info and most importantly helped me make a choice. That’s pretty rare on TH-cam these days. Thanks. (I’ll go with raindrop based on what you say. Having to pay forever to be able to keep stuff is a no go for me)
Thanks a lot, I appreciate your feedback I'll work on making future videos be more like this! Best of luck with raindrop so far I keep using it everyday and it's so useful
3:37 I think you just have to press Enter to confirm your tag and it will give you all the cards you saved which are Books, same thing for Tweets or “this week” (time tag)
Raindrop also has a student plan, which I've signed up to, and have been gradually importing my browser and Diigo bookmarks to it. I'm still working out my organisational structure, though Raindrop is one of those apps where I am going to be heavy on tagging. Only snag with Raindrop though, is that it doesn't have a native Linux client.
Clear comparison. I don't use this visual bookmarking apps (yet?). My current main workflow regarding web source info goes from browser > instapaper and/or hypothes.is > Readwise > Obsidian. Not sure if adding more apps and filters to our already stressed workflows worths it.
to be honest I think your flow is great, you might not need these bookmark manager apps atm. Your workflow is better specially if you want to annotate pages for sure. I use raindrop pretty much as just a personal collection of bookmarks that I want to find later quickly. I used to use hypothesis for annotations, but right now Im using Readwise's reader app (not sure if it's public yet) but it's the best one for annotations
Wow man. This video was reaaallly good and professional. Surprised to find something this good within this niche. 🤞. What app did you use throughout the video (8:20)
Hey thanks you so much for the awesome comment. the app I used to build the interactive presentation is Figma (smart animate) honestly it took me ages, but glad you enjoyed it
Raindrop is really awesome I've used it for like a year! As a bookmark manager it does a really good job. (Although I admit I'm waiting for Readwise Reader to try out XD) Btw have you tried Matter before? I feel like its another alternative as well. (But I think its iOS only and Android coming, its one reason that I never tried it tho)
In my opinion reader is not an alternative to Readwise, at least for the way I use Readwise vs Reader. I use Reader (beta version) as a read-later app, and Raindrop as a way to store things I want to be able to find later. But I do see how they could be somewhat interchangable. And I keep hearing good things about Matter, but yeah they are still working on the Android app, but really looking forward to trying it! Thanks as always for the awesom comment
@@annafilou Hey, that's awesome! yeah those integrations are definitely not obvious thanks! my thumbnails are 3D art, I design them fully in Blender, a really cool free software. The learning curve it's a bit steep at first, but tons of fun
Hey Cássius! thank you, I used figma, with a feature called "smart animate" it's a bit complicated but super powerful. I highly recommend watching the "figma smart animate tutorial by Carola Pescio Canale" Best of luck, let me know if you got any questions, might make a video on this one day
good question, from what I've seen they added a couple of extra features that look nice, but my main concerns with it haven't changed much. For now I'm still using Raindrop and I'm really happy with it, it's so useful, I pretty much save everything that I want to be able to find later in there
Was wondering the same. It looks very enticing in terms of appearance and features but the cons are really concerning. Sad to learn they haven’t been resolved :(
I use Obsidian as a Visual Bookmark Manager. Why would I want to manage bookmarks outside that app? You can even use Obsidian with browser functionalities using s, so your bookmark is the website per se, rendered in a note.
nice idea, glad that works for you. Personally I find that not fast enough as a quick way to capture and organize bookmarks. specially on mobile. I find raindrop great, specially because I can then quickly search for things without confusing bookmarks and notes. I think Obsidian is amazing for longform writing but I don't find it that useful for managing a lot of bookmark links. But if Obsidian works for you that's great, just sharing my take for others reading this
I have used read-it-later apps and book mark apps for a long time. The same thing always happens, they become a junk drawer. I guess I have a tendency to google first and just skip over the idea I might have something book marked or in a RIL app. Any suggestions on how to deal with the propensity to junk drawer everything?
I know what you mean, I think as long as that junk drawer is still useful to you then I wouldn't work about it. This is why I like a separate app for collecting bookmarks (instead of doing it in my main note taker) I see this apps as a way for me to quickly search everything ive saved, i even use raindrops as a read later app, i only use it as a way to collect everything i want to be able to search in the future. For read later I actually use the new app by readwise (reader app) of course you can still use raindrop, perhaps but making a separate folder, but for me having separate apps makes it easier. In fewer words, i just raindrop for searching bookmarks that I'll want to find though search again in the future, the read-later part of it i use a different for that Hope that helps
Feel free to use Obsidian, I just think using Obsidian for bookmarks quickly turns into a mess hard to search. That's why I like raindrop it's fast and search is excellent without conflicting that search with my notes
@@SantiYounger I see. I'm trying it out now but I just feel like a combination of both my browser's synced bookmarks (for stuff I want to see later, and shortcuts) and Obsidian notes for publications generally does the job for me so far. I'm not sure if this overhead is worth it IMHO. But thanks for the video! At least I could narrow it down to Raindrop.
hey! of course. usually it should be on my website santiyounger.com but I'm migrating my site, so that blogpost is on an archived website which you can find here for now santiyounger.super.site/davincism
Hey Santi, great video (as always) and thank you for the tipp of searching raindrop content in the browser search bar! BUT it's not working for me. I don't know why - in my browser it's not possible to do that. I am using firefox. Do you (or someone here) know what the problem might be?
Hey, thank glad you enjoyed it! I totally forgot to mention, but I think that in order for that to work you need to install the raindrop browser extension, I haven't check but I hope there's a firefox version of it. I love firefox but I had to move to Chome and Brave (brave is better) due to some extensions and things like this not being compatible let me know if there's an extension for firefox and if it works
@@SantiYounger yes there is a plugin and it works just fine for saving pages but not for the search function. I think it really is an issue of firefox, cause I once tried memex and it should have the same functionality (search via browser bar) and also did not work 😕
@@SantiYounger ... aaah, and i really don't want to leave firefox, so I guess I will live without search via browser bar and do it right in raindrop 🤷🏻♀
@@NjuJFama sorry to hear it didn't work. I feel your pain I had to leave firefox specially because memex didn't work. I really miss good old firefox! stick with it if you can, and send my regards to it hahah
Hey Harry good question, it should be easy to export from pocket and import to Raindrop. However to move to mymind you would have to do it manually one link at the time, since they don't have a way to import So yeah, Raindrop is better if you are moving from Pocket
@@SantiYounger I’m sorry but I don’t know, for the moment I just gave a quick view, when I finish my university exams I try to look better. But It sounds very interesting for me.
Hey! I used figma, with a feature called "smart animate" it's a bit complicated but super powerful. I highly recommend watching the "figma smart animate tutorial by Carola Pescio Canale" Best of luck, let me know if you got any questions, might make a video on this one day
This video was actually on point, had a good pace, provided useful info and most importantly helped me make a choice. That’s pretty rare on TH-cam these days. Thanks.
(I’ll go with raindrop based on what you say. Having to pay forever to be able to keep stuff is a no go for me)
Thanks a lot, I appreciate your feedback I'll work on making future videos be more like this!
Best of luck with raindrop so far I keep using it everyday and it's so useful
One benefit of the paid apps is they will be able to ship updates alot more frequently and in future may be vastly better...
This was a really well done review, clear, nicely organized, paced and focused. It gave me the answers I was looking for. Nice job, thanks Santi!
3:37 I think you just have to press Enter to confirm your tag and it will give you all the cards you saved which are Books, same thing for Tweets or “this week” (time tag)
I have been using save to notion for a while. Works perfectly.
Excellent review Santi, thank you) I'll go with Raindrop
Raindrop also has a student plan, which I've signed up to, and have been gradually importing my browser and Diigo bookmarks to it. I'm still working out my organisational structure, though Raindrop is one of those apps where I am going to be heavy on tagging.
Only snag with Raindrop though, is that it doesn't have a native Linux client.
Where did you find the student plan? Did you email them? Because I can't find it on their website
@@mosesfebrian I didn't find it either.
nice, yeah no Linux app, but to be honest I end up using it on the browser a lot more
I'm not sure about that, perhaps messaging is the only way, but I'm not aware of that plan
@@SantiYounger same.
Nice comparison. What did you use to make the presentation?
Thank you for making this video. It is much appreciated.
thank you for watching it Robert
When I saw the font used in mymind for the search box, I knew right away that this tool wasn't for me :)
hahaha good one, yeah not a big fan of that font either
Clear comparison.
I don't use this visual bookmarking apps (yet?). My current main workflow regarding web source info goes from browser > instapaper and/or hypothes.is > Readwise > Obsidian.
Not sure if adding more apps and filters to our already stressed workflows worths it.
to be honest I think your flow is great, you might not need these bookmark manager apps atm. Your workflow is better specially if you want to annotate pages for sure. I use raindrop pretty much as just a personal collection of bookmarks that I want to find later quickly. I used to use hypothesis for annotations, but right now Im using Readwise's reader app (not sure if it's public yet) but it's the best one for annotations
@@SantiYounger On the waiting list already. The Rw reader app looks promising, even killing Instapaper :)
Gracias!
Wow man. This video was reaaallly good and professional. Surprised to find something this good within this niche. 🤞. What app did you use throughout the video (8:20)
Hey thanks you so much for the awesome comment. the app I used to build the interactive presentation is Figma (smart animate) honestly it took me ages, but glad you enjoyed it
Is there any email to raindrop integration?
I want to redirect some newsletters emails to raindrop but i didn't find a goodway to do so.
Raindrop is really awesome I've used it for like a year!
As a bookmark manager it does a really good job. (Although I admit I'm waiting for Readwise Reader to try out XD)
Btw have you tried Matter before? I feel like its another alternative as well. (But I think its iOS only and Android coming, its one reason that I never tried it tho)
In my opinion reader is not an alternative to Readwise, at least for the way I use Readwise vs Reader. I use Reader (beta version) as a read-later app, and Raindrop as a way to store things I want to be able to find later. But I do see how they could be somewhat interchangable.
And I keep hearing good things about Matter, but yeah they are still working on the Android app, but really looking forward to trying it!
Thanks as always for the awesom comment
@@SantiYounger Wow that was so cool! How was Reader to you? Is it good?
I've been using Raindrop for years and didn't know about the Alfred and browser integrations 😂
I'm so glad I stumbled upon you channel by the way! Great content. And the thumbnails look incredible!! How do you even make them?
@@annafilou Hey, that's awesome! yeah those integrations are definitely not obvious
thanks! my thumbnails are 3D art, I design them fully in Blender, a really cool free software. The learning curve it's a bit steep at first, but tons of fun
7:29 Yea lol that is just a ridiculously way to lock in consumers
myMind looks amazing. Not sure though if I am willing to add just another paid subscription to my productivity belt
yeah I know what you mean, after more use I did end up liking Raindrop as a much more affordable solution with a lot more organizational power
In mymind try searching by type. For example type:book to return all books.
great video!! thank you! i'm curious - what app did you use to make this interactive presentation?
Hey Cássius! thank you, I used figma, with a feature called "smart animate" it's a bit complicated but super powerful.
I highly recommend watching the "figma smart animate tutorial by Carola Pescio Canale"
Best of luck, let me know if you got any questions, might make a video on this one day
@@SantiYounger 🔥🙏 will do!
This video was so helpful. Thanks!
Have any of your issues with MyMind been resolved since you posted this video?
good question, from what I've seen they added a couple of extra features that look nice, but my main concerns with it haven't changed much. For now I'm still using Raindrop and I'm really happy with it, it's so useful, I pretty much save everything that I want to be able to find later in there
Was wondering the same. It looks very enticing in terms of appearance and features but the cons are really concerning. Sad to learn they haven’t been resolved :(
Thanks for the tips on My Mind. Bublup app is similar but totally free with many more features. I'd like you to review that one day...thanks
thanks for the tip, I wasn't aware of Bublup, it looks cool, I'll check it out!
I use Obsidian as a Visual Bookmark Manager. Why would I want to manage bookmarks outside that app? You can even use Obsidian with browser functionalities using s, so your bookmark is the website per se, rendered in a note.
nice idea, glad that works for you. Personally I find that not fast enough as a quick way to capture and organize bookmarks. specially on mobile.
I find raindrop great, specially because I can then quickly search for things without confusing bookmarks and notes. I think Obsidian is amazing for longform writing but I don't find it that useful for managing a lot of bookmark links. But if Obsidian works for you that's great, just sharing my take for others reading this
Amazing video.
thank you brother!!
I have used read-it-later apps and book mark apps for a long time. The same thing always happens, they become a junk drawer. I guess I have a tendency to google first and just skip over the idea I might have something book marked or in a RIL app. Any suggestions on how to deal with the propensity to junk drawer everything?
I know what you mean, I think as long as that junk drawer is still useful to you then I wouldn't work about it. This is why I like a separate app for collecting bookmarks (instead of doing it in my main note taker) I see this apps as a way for me to quickly search everything ive saved, i even use raindrops as a read later app, i only use it as a way to collect everything i want to be able to search in the future.
For read later I actually use the new app by readwise (reader app) of course you can still use raindrop, perhaps but making a separate folder, but for me having separate apps makes it easier.
In fewer words, i just raindrop for searching bookmarks that I'll want to find though search again in the future, the read-later part of it i use a different for that
Hope that helps
@@SantiYounger Great point here
Why not just use Obsidian to save bookmarks? Why do we need yet another piece of software for this at all?
Feel free to use Obsidian, I just think using Obsidian for bookmarks quickly turns into a mess hard to search. That's why I like raindrop it's fast and search is excellent without conflicting that search with my notes
@@SantiYounger I see. I'm trying it out now but I just feel like a combination of both my browser's synced bookmarks (for stuff I want to see later, and shortcuts) and Obsidian notes for publications generally does the job for me so far. I'm not sure if this overhead is worth it IMHO. But thanks for the video! At least I could narrow it down to Raindrop.
@@aungthuhein007 nice, happy to help. Yeah with your current workflow you should be fine! Best of luck
nice work!
Yo can you share that bookmark you've got for "davincism a modern philosiphy for people with various interests"
hey! of course. usually it should be on my website santiyounger.com but I'm migrating my site, so that blogpost is on an archived website which you can find here for now
santiyounger.super.site/davincism
Can any of them bookmark webpages saved in the local hard disk?
Hey Santi, great video (as always) and thank you for the tipp of searching raindrop content in the browser search bar! BUT it's not working for me. I don't know why - in my browser it's not possible to do that. I am using firefox. Do you (or someone here) know what the problem might be?
Hey, thank glad you enjoyed it! I totally forgot to mention, but I think that in order for that to work you need to install the raindrop browser extension, I haven't check but I hope there's a firefox version of it.
I love firefox but I had to move to Chome and Brave (brave is better) due to some extensions and things like this not being compatible
let me know if there's an extension for firefox and if it works
@@SantiYounger yes there is a plugin and it works just fine for saving pages but not for the search function. I think it really is an issue of firefox, cause I once tried memex and it should have the same functionality (search via browser bar) and also did not work 😕
@@SantiYounger ... aaah, and i really don't want to leave firefox, so I guess I will live without search via browser bar and do it right in raindrop 🤷🏻♀
@@NjuJFama sorry to hear it didn't work. I feel your pain I had to leave firefox specially because memex didn't work.
I really miss good old firefox! stick with it if you can, and send my regards to it hahah
@@SantiYounger haha 😄 regards sent!
Thank you for this video
How easy is it to transfer Pocket data to either of these apps?
Hey Harry good question, it should be easy to export from pocket and import to Raindrop.
However to move to mymind you would have to do it manually one link at the time, since they don't have a way to import
So yeah, Raindrop is better if you are moving from Pocket
Interesting - thank you
What do you think about innos note? It is a good app between obsidian and notion
nice I haven't tried it, do you know if it has notion databases perhaps?
@@SantiYounger I’m sorry but I don’t know, for the moment I just gave a quick view, when I finish my university exams I try to look better. But It sounds very interesting for me.
@@cristianpiovani3633 nice, got you, feel free to let me know what you think of it after your exams, good luck by the way!!
whats the presentation software you are using?
Hey! I used figma, with a feature called "smart animate" it's a bit complicated but super powerful.
I highly recommend watching the "figma smart animate tutorial by Carola Pescio Canale"
Best of luck, let me know if you got any questions, might make a video on this one day
More videos like this please!
Appreciate it! what did you like about it, the specific apps or the style of the video?
Raindrop.io is infinitely better IMO...✨