So maybe this is turning to just writing about bookmark apps. I started trying raindrop.io. It's pretty cool! I don;t remember what turned me away last time, maybe just that you had to log in and there was a pricing scheme. Actually though, it is open source! and the pricing is fair, aNd the free version seems totally good enough. I may be transitioning over to that. The mobile integration is also great. The collections are still lacking a bit of the nice clarity of a leaflet doc, and I want to be mindful of what the point of removing barriers to bookmarking is; I don't wanna just be collecting lots of stuff for no reason. But on the other hand, it is a fun hobby and I think I could collect enough web stuff to always be able to find that thing I remember looking for. Meh, there's definitely something sticky feeling about that, but also obviously exciting! You can also make a public page for your collection, so it would be easy to make a custom collection for a friend actually.

e.g. "reading list for ian"

and have books, articles, music there to share. The one thing is that the basic unit of raindrop is links. I want my notes to be on equal footing with the link itself, especially when its something like a book cover; I don't want the link to go to the image itself. Ideally it would open the note up on tap. But either way, it could be a good starting place for making a collection for friends, that if I want to move to a website later I can. There's also an api that I think I could effectively do the stuff I wanna do. But I also don't even know what an api is so maybe I should chill out lol.

I added all canonical greenspace pages to a collection! pretty cool to see it like that, idk why i hadn't thought of it before.

Raindrop falls short a little on the notation/social featured that margin and semble have maybe, but it is a zillion times cleaner in terms of presenting the actual bookmarks.

I think something I kind of want from raindrop is for notes to be their own object too. But I can pretty easily put a leaflet in there so thats kind of cool. Idk we'll see how it comes together. For now, what's solved for me is: i can add bookmarks from my phone easier. That's the main thing.

would be interesting if margin also had in-page integration to show highlights even when people don't have the extension. (page owner would add margin 'into' the site. Maybe even ways to find collections the page is a part of?

I just started using margin today 2/16. I'm really impressed by the fact that it has a way to add bookmarks from IOS. Seems like that should be much simpler anyway, though. But even the obsidian safari add on doesn't work for some reason, so maybe this is the least friction way to add bookmarks.

It's too many steps to do through leaflet on iphone; the web app is slow, i can't bookmark straight to bookmarks, and its just too many clicks overall. However, I do prefer the simplicity of one document with all the bookmarks. It makes more chronological sense, and presenting every card with full details doesn't make sense in margin/semble when I'm looking at my own bookmarks.

The thing that really blew my mind was that after playing with margin for a bit, making some bookmarks and a collection, I went over to semble to try it out and bam.... everything was there! I wasn't even expecting that but I was so delighted by it. I could use margin's bookmarking tools and semble's ui if i wanted. That's really something! Makes me think about those kinds of possibilities for other atmosphere stuff. Separate apps for creation and display can really work together in a novel way. How could it work for leaflet? I create an app that follows margin's shortcut route, but instead of writing to margin it embeds the link in a leaflet draft? How much of leaflet's api would that have to interact with, and how much could it just write directly to pds? Seems like it could just write directly pretty easily!

Anyway, the other pretty mindblowing thing was that with margin's browser extension, other people's annotations show up on websites! wow! it's like.... comments for the whole internet! or margins i suppose! That really seems to have the capacity to knock everything around and make things feel much closer together. It's a shocking whole layer and sort of so obvious I'm surprised it's not much more common.

I want to practice writing some of my thoughts on things, particularly tech. I want to eventually write things worth sharing, and the first step is to write things not worth sharing!