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Pin one bookmark into multiple collections
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Melody Nelson
I felt the need in this once I wanted to mark some of my existing bookmarks (from a custom collection) as Read Later, and more recently, when I wanted to share that collection to collaborate on it, but also wanted to have some personal marks for it too.
I understand that current architecture might be in the way since it greatly changes the logic, but I think ways to privately mark a public collection would be quite useful. Even storing a bookmark as a duplicate in another collection (on save or edit) would be very helpful, but probably still won't fill some of the usecases (unless duplicated entries can somehow collapse to single one when browsing or searching).
Another logic idea would be to make not just an independent copy of a bookmark, but a parent-child relationship, when the original bookmark is a parent, and the bookmark copy is a child belonging to another collection, which inherits all of the parent bookmark properties like tags, and also allows to add new (private) properties. The inherited properties should be locked from edits, and sync tags from the parent in real time, but there also should be an (irreversible) option to "untie" the two and edit both independently. This way will allow to collaborate on a collection, while taking some of the bookmarks for personal management without having dupe entries or old tag sets.
On another thought, maybe the current architecture could allow collections to also store not just bookmarks, but links to the existing bookmarks (editing a bookmark should reflect on both collections). Ths could be really useful to mark something in another collection as Read Later (was surprised it's not possible yet, or I just didn't figure out how).
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Karl Hütt
I am also looking for this feature. I have my personal collections and some other collaborative collections and some bookmarks need to be in both. I believe the concept of collection needs to be improved. Is a collection merely a folder?
Tags are pretty useless for this. They're only useful for searching for something. They'd be a lot more useful if there was a sorting option BY TAGS inside a collection, or if it was possible to share an auto-generated collection from a tag.
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David
I just want to add another vote here and am attaching a screenshot showing why tags are
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the solution for some use cases. I believe that anyone who reviews the screenshot will agree that tags do not address these types of use cases.Thanks!
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Charles Deschênes
Actually, shouldn't tags be used for that purpose? Just a suggestion.
Charlie Bucher
Charles Deschênes: Agreed, this was my initial thought as well. However I can see where some people might use this. Especially with some sort of Smart Folders that allow for both collections and tags, among other criteria options.
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William Bauer
Charlie Bucher: I agree that Smart Folders based on tags would be desirable. I love Raindrop.io and this would add a powerful feature that would be extremely useful.
William Li
It would be good to have this feature as I am trying to put together a reading list for public sharing but found that bookmarks cannot be added since they are already stored in another collection.
Rustem Mussabekov
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I consider adding additional button called "Duplicate" or "Copy" in bookmark edit screen that allow in fast pin one bookmark into multiple collections. What do you think?
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Zee M Kane
Rustem Mussabekov: honestly not as great as being able to do it when you first save a bookmark
Luzius Fischer
Zee M Kane: best if both is possible. when saving the bookmark but afterwards as well
Harry Whitehead
Rustem Mussabekov: Make it like Gmail Labels.... Then I would consider becoming a paid/premium member once again.
Erick van der Giessen
Hi Rustem Mussabekov, How can your premium feature 'Duplicate and broken links finder' take out duplicate pins if some duplicate pins are intended and some pins are not?
My preference is that as a user you can display one pin in multiple groups, without duplicating the pin.
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Jan Peeters
Rustem Mussabekov: For me a duplicate or copy function would only work if both items stay connected to each other (like a carbon copy) so that if you want to change something you don't have to change multiple items.
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John Le Drappier
Rustem Mussabekov: I was more thinking about a checkbox option when add a pin to a group in order to add one pin to multiple groups with ease.
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David Mantel
Rustem Mussabekov: Can you allow us to add it to multiple collections using the add button (and make a notice saying "you already have this bookmarked in the collection [name]. Do you want to save this bookmark to [name] collection as well?"
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Joe
Rustem Mussabekov: As you already use the word duplicate to mean something else, I'd stay away from that. I've seen this feature called "Replicate" on another tool. Clone, would be another.
But as others say, I'd like to be able to also do it from the web clipper. For example, recently I read an article about optimising video and images on your website. I'd like to be able to bookmark from the web clipper into both my images and videos collections.
Ian Dessers
Luzius Fischer: I agree to what Luzius says, It seems to be the most practical and interesting if you can do it when adding a bookmark, but also afterwards (for the bookmarks that already exist for example).
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Jordan Reese
Rustem Mussabekov: Sounds great!
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spirit
One easy solution to the duplicate problem is to only find duplicate bookmarks within the same collection. Duplicate bookmarks in separate collections won't be considered "duplicate".
And yes please make it so I can add one bookmark to multiple collections through the share sheet extension rather than having to open up the app after saving and going through additional steps.
It should be fairly easy to code in a multi-select option rather than the current functionality of single-select :)
Emily Thiessen
Alternately, could it just be possible to pin tags in the sidebar like collections so they are easy to get to? My bookmarks are primarily organized with tags so can have them in multiple places but it takes to steps to get to them.
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spirit
yes an alternative would be to create the option for "tag trees". But people want to share the same bookmark in two different sets of bookmarks. So if we could select a group of bookmarks and then share that group of bookmarks (like we can currently share collections) then this would be just as useful I believe.
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Roberto
Please make it
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only. I use Raindrop.io as an archive and to save my browsing history. I love that it will only save bookmarks once - and that it shows “known bookmarks” right away. I understand the use case of others, so an toggle within preferences would be great.s
spirit
Perhaps the Duplicate Finder can remain but when someone purposely adds a bookmark to multiple collections from the share sheet extension or through the app, then that bookmark is flagged as "non-duplicate". This van then preserve the functionality for both groups of users who don't want the same bookmark in multiple collections like Roberto is speaking here and also for the users that do want bookmarks in multiple collections for sharing and other purposes (like me 🙂) Rustem Mussabekov
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Patrick Taylor
Just please allow for duplication of bookmarks in general.
Youtube now allows for creating a URL that is time stamped, so I can get to a specific part of a video simply by clicking a time stamped URL. But if said video has several parts I'm interested in viewing, without having to manually fast forward to each spot, I need to have access to each unique URL, and thus need to several copies of a bookmark.
Ashley Kolodziej
I teach an intro to design class and a web design class, and I've just discovered some of the resources that apply to my intro to design class could be great for my web design class too - but I can't have the same bookmark in both places. I want them in separate collections so I have the right resources all in one place for my students.
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