Raindrop as the new tab page / speed dial / home page / start page
htfziang
Raindrop as the new tab page. It will be much easier and more convenient to open bookmarks because I am always in a hurry.
Also, I will be very grateful if you can add pin bookmarks/collections feature too
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Rustem Mussabekov
Consider using the Side Panel extension for quick and always-accessible access to your collection. https://help.raindrop.io/browser-extension#side-panel
A New Tab extension might be explored in the future.
Rustem Mussabekov
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Add a custom "View" for collections that displays bookmarks as icons with short labels.
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Michael VanPutten
This would provide one of the last 'essential' file view layouts that are commonly preferred by users and are typically selectable in any file management/explorer tool.
Related features and functionality needed for this to work
- Bookmark meta-data: add an additional "Title" field that can be used to specify very short labels for a bookmark, similar to the short labels we see for app icons on a smartphone
- Bookmark icon: support for square icons, ideally with the option for SVG, PNG, and JPG upload/artwork
- Custom view: for collections with nested collections, provide the option to display the nested collections as columns (rather than just rows), and include a masonry block flow (so that if a nested collection has fewer bookmarks it takes up less space to display)
- Additional enhancement(not required/mandatory as long as we can build our own collections and set ordering already): add an analytics/count on how often we click on a bookmark, so that we can sort/display bookmarks based on what we access and use most, this would also enable us to clean out less used or outdated bookmarks)
Use Cases
- Personalized quick launch dashboardfor rapid access to commonly used bookmarks (e.g., links to system admin logins, references like AP Style Guide, etc. A page with this layout/view can be set as the default home page in a web browser (and for new tabs), so that when you are at work you can have a personalized dashboard that enables you to get to your most frequently used online tools with a single click without having to scroll or search
Benchmarks and examples for how this could function and display
See attached screenshots for visual reference.
Google Chrome
- the shortcuts that display by on a new tab (just below the search bar). These are extremely useful, but limited to 10 shortcuts/bookmarks)Rustem Mussabekov
Consider using the Side Panel extension for quick and always-accessible access to your collection. https://help.raindrop.io/browser-extension#side-panel
A New Tab extension might be explored in the future.
Rustem Mussabekov
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Start page with folders
Andre
I would like to propose an enhancement to the user interface by a start menu that functions similarly to a file explorer's folders, without relying on the side panel.
The start page will display all collections in their respective folders, and it would be nice if the side panel could be minimized.
Rustem Mussabekov
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Changing the background
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dimaydk
The border between bookmarks and tiles on the start page is very conditional, so I have been using Raindrop as a start page with quick access to bookmarks for several years. This is very convenient, because regardless of the browser and device, my start screen is the same everywhere.
The only downside is that it's boring for the start screen :)
It would be great to be able to set your own background.
Rustem Mussabekov
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Dashboard startpage
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Terje Gabrielsen
Hi.
I would have loved something similar to what bookmarkninja have, like a combination of separate functions for a “dashboard” & “my bookmarks”.
Raindrop have the most awesome “my bookmarks” part, if there in the future could be a possibility to connect to some kind of dashboard like bookmarkninja have, where u can “move” a bookmark from your “my bookmarks” storage, to the dashboard (I want to have a start page/landing page to be my “go-to” page whenever I open my browser (and would LOVE to have that as an option on the iOS raindrop app, but browser support is the most important in regards to a possible dashboard solution).
I have used raindrop for years before, but are currently trying out bookmarkninja since the only thing I really miss from Raindrop is what I have mentioned above 👆
Love you’re work Rustem, have been a fan of your solution for years 👌
Rustem Mussabekov
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Need Browser Start Page extension
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Kochiya_Sanae
Raindrop is a nice tool for cross-platform bookmarks syncing. But it will be better if Raindrop can provide a start up extension for IOS Safari, and Edge, which could display Bookmarks on start up.
Rustem Mussabekov
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Icon view for bookmarks
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Yume
Currently there is no "icon" style view option for bookmarks in a collection. Cards and moodboard views use a lot of space to display thumbnails of webpages and may not easy to identify bookmarks sometimes. Icon view is more efficient in some circumstances and good enough to distinguish among a few frequently used bookmarks. So I think it is a good idea to add this option for view setting of bookmark collection as icon view is used by many new tab startpages of browsers.
Titles and tags of icons can be either display under the icons or on the right side of icons. In fact, icon view can just be a mini version of current card view with square image container and rounded corner for webpage icons. The icon image size just need to be adjustable to smaller sizes than current card view.
Rustem Mussabekov
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Better ways to visualize content
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Interneto
- Add an "Iconboard" view that permit to show only the icons (with the checkbox: Icons, Title, Description, Tags, Bookmarks Info) like Cards view but with Icons instead of Covers).
- Add a graph map view of the links, like markdown notes in Obsidian app.
- Add a ranking system (like with 5 stars).
These would be great, and would look more like a file explorer of links.
Rustem Mussabekov
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Dashboard with startpage
Christiaan Koëter
Like a (protected page) of your own where you can add widgets like the weather, rss feeds notepad etc. To start your internet home with.
Rustem Mussabekov
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Make a group a speed-dial
Marc Winter
Allow to choose a group to be shown as cards on new tabs similar to speed-dial systems like FVD Speed Dial etc.
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