Battle of the Bookmark Managers
Mac Apps
Aside from browsers, I have several apps on my hard drive for
collecting and organizing bookmarks:
- Goodlinks (also has read it later features)
- Bookmarks
- One Bookmark
- Raindrop.io
There are many more with Anybox and Pinboard and its various clients also
being very popular.
My personal favorite, hands down, is Raindrop.io for many reasons. The free version of Raindrop.io offers enough features for many users.
- Unlimited bookmarks
- Unlimited collections
- Unlimited highlights
- Unlimited devices
- More than 2,600 integrations (via IFTTT)
- Apps for Mac, iOS, Android, Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge.
I love how it integrates with browsers. I can type "rd" in the
menu bar and hit the tab key to begin searching my collection (of 800+
bookmarks). Raindrop uses both folders and tags to organize and I take
advantage of both. The iOS share sheet is as easy to use as the browser
extension is and both let me make notes on any page I bookmark. I can
also save highlights in the app and sync everything to Obsidian with a
free plugin. For users of the pro version, Raindrop.io saves a copy of
every page on its server, so that if the page is ever taken down, they
will still be able to access the content. For people who have a large
PDF collection, you can upload them to Raindrop's server too and access
them from any computer. Even free users can upload 100mb a month of
PDFs. I use an IFTTT integration with my RSS service, Inoreader, so that
any article I star there gets added to my Raindrop bookmarks. I also
have an intergration with YouTube so that any video I like gets added as
well.
If you want extra features beyond the free plan, there is a pro version for $2.99 a month or $28 a year. The pro version offers:
- Everything on the free plan
- Al Suggestions for folders and tags
- Full-text search of every page
- Permanent library
- Reminders to review pages
- Annotations
- Duplicate and broken links finder
- Daily backups
- Upload 10 GB of files per month
- Priority support by email
- Enabled in all platforms