Pin one bookmark into multiple collections
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William Cowan
I signed up for pro two years ago. I use raindrop for my daily personal bookmark manager, but I joined hoping I'd eventually be able to have links in multiple shared collections.
Why it's needed?: some examples...
🔹Sharing recommendations for friends
🔹Marketing Agency with multiple Clients. Software reference per client.
🔹Required software list for new hire or contractor.
🔹Study/tutorial Recommendations
All of the above will have overlap in links referenced. 🏷️ Sharing tags as collections would be a workable alternative.
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⚠️ Current situation is unmanageable ⚠️ Rustem Mussabekov what are the current blockers on this? 🏚️ Shared Collections always end up Abandoned because to use the workaround:
🔸Extra steps on link save creates friction.
🔸Duplicated links don't sync tags.
🔸Duplicated Links don't share notes.
🔸Highlighting goes to only the link without the psudourl additions.
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🚫 I almost never use the share feature exclusively because of this limitation.
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yami
This post is almost ten years old lol, when is it "planned" to be implemented?
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Luís Neto
Rustem Mussabekov: any update on this?
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Cliff
The problem with collections is that while you can sort/nest them, you can't have a URL in more than one collection.
The problem with the tags is that while you can have a URL in more than one tag, you can't sort/nest them.
Please give us the ability to have a URL in more than one place while also being able to sort/nest as well as share.
In other words, Please enable the ability to have one URL in multiple (collections).
If there's a workaround, let me know. I would need to have the screenshots and text etc be different as well. Simply copying and pasting the URL to multiple collections doesn't work as the information i.e. screenshots etc are linked.
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David
Cliff your two first sentences beautifully sum up the organizational problem with this and 95% of the other software on the market. Why this insanely obvious organizational need is omitted from 95% of the software on the market is an eternal mystery to me. The Raindrop competitor GGather handles this beautifully. Sadly it's otherwise buggy and slow and the hosting infrastructure is obviously sadly lacking.
B. Libbrecht
TAGS AND COLLECTIONS SERVE VERY DIFFERENT PURPOSES. Let us please agree on such basics. The original request was very keen on this. Someone who has an intelligently built collection tree will not very often need it, but still, from time to time, it would be fantastic to be able to add a 'shortcut' to the original in other collections.
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Ronald Richard
That is the basis of tags. You add one or more tags to a bookmark and then it doesn't matter where it's stored, you simply search by tag/context. In your case, I recommend you start using tags instead of collections, and instead of multiple collections with many bookmarks use multiple tags per single bookmark.
Having said that, Raindrop.io could benefit from stronger and more intuitive tag management.
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Ronald Richard:
You can't manually sort tags.
You can't share tags.
You can't nest tags.
There's no shortage of reasons why "just use tags" is a nonsensical "solution", and they've all been articulated multiple times in the comments already.
Preben Nielsen
Categories should just be "Tags" and you should be able to add any tags to an item
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Rick Prevatt
Suggesting - Devonthink uses a system that lets me copy something OR create a replicant. the replicant is a copy, but when I do something to the original, the change is ALSO made to the replicant. That way I always am looking at the latest version, even if I have that particular content in 4 or 5 areas. Otherwise it becomes a nightmare to keep everything synced. The advantage is that I can put one bookmark in several folders, and as I change one, the others are change ,automatically. Thatchanged works perfectly for me.
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belgio
To add to this, I'd want to do backlinking to multiple folders.
User stories to clarify:
Main Ask:
As a bookmark organizer with multiple folders, I want to have the ability to backlink folders within different folders so that I can quickly retrieve the bookmarks within those folders when I am carrying out a specific activity. For example, I want to quickly retrieve 'fitness stores' when I am in my fitness folder, AND I would also like to find this 'fitness stores' folder when I am in the shopping folder.
Broken into simpler stories:
User Story 1:
As a bookmark organizer, I want the ability to create backlinks between folders so that I can easily access related bookmarks in different folders.
User Story 2:
As a user, I want to be able to navigate to a linked folder from within another folder so that I can find and access bookmarks related to my current context.
This allows me to keep one main folder and I can just add to that, instead of having to duplicate bookmarks and spend time double booking the entries, it also improves the ability to find and retrieve those bookmarks when carrying out different tasks.
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John Le Drappier
In this time, I am on the horns of a dilemma cause I want to add my bookmarks into multiple collections without duplicate them.
I'd like that feature as soon as possible =)
December 23, 2016
August 6, 2023 STILL PLANNED
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