Links to raindrop don't handle `#` nicely
eshaan-issar1
I use raindrop in my notes to link to a group of bookmarks.
I have to use %23 instead of # in the links. for example:
has to be:
The first link above, just opens raindrop.io to the search screen, where the search bar is empty.
typing
https://app.raindrop.io/my/0/#<tag> directly in the browser does not have the expected behavior either.
I understand you have allowed the
#
and "
character inside of tags, which makes pretty urls very difficult, but I see this as a kind of perma-link
to my saved information, and I use these urls pretty actively, so them looking pretty would be very nice.If the expected behavior is that searches start with
and that %23<tag> is parsed as a tag, where <tag> could contain special characters or whitespace, https://app.raindrop.io/my/0/# should still initiate a search where the query is
#
, but that is not the behavior either, so this may just be a bug.if https://app.raindrop.io/my/0/<search text> urls just redirect to the search page and the search is initiated via client side js, the bug is probably there.
If this is a server handling issues, some possible suggestions are:
Just create a special case if the url starts with
we could handle it with a different path, like:
or link to an internal tag-id (if that exists), like the paths for folders.
The link when I click on a folder in the left sidebar : https://app.raindrop.io/my/41594587
The idea with the separate path is you would be redirected to that url if you click on that tag in the sidebar. the page can still just be the search page, and the tag would be populated in the search bar. adding any text to the search bar would change the url to fallback to the normal search url.
That way simple queries are redirected to nice, bookmarkable urls.
Having nice, pretty urls for the following feature:
would also solve my problem completely.
I have had a fantastic experience with the app otherwise. Thanks for reading.
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