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Warn when adding duplicate
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jLouis Francis IV
Warn users when adding a duplicate bookmark. This would show them where that link already exists, saving time from duplicate cleanup later on.
Rustem Mussabekov
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Raindrop prevent saving duplicates when you use our browser/share extensions, always.
Please enable special indicator that will show saved status: https://help.raindrop.io/browser-extension#saved-indicator
But even if this indicator is not enabled, Raindrop extension WILL prevent saving duplicates.
Here the list of possible cases when duplicate check can fail:
- Raindrop web app does not prevent you from creating duplicates (when you click Add in top right corner) https://app.raindrop.io/ - it's expected behaviour, just allows you to create another copy of same URL
- Browser extension can't detect saved status if URL of a page change each time you visit it. Some websites slightly change page URL each time you visit it, they add some tracking info, etc. In this case you always have different URL. Just check page URL and bookmark that you saved and check difference in URL.

Lukas Gabriel
If this gets added, it would be great to make it toggleable. I add duplicates all the time, it's just part of my process, I just clean them up in the "Duplicates" filter once in a while.
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Sebastian
> Some websites slightly change page URL each time you visit it, they add some tracking info, etc. In this case you always have different URL. Just check page URL and bookmark that you saved and check difference in URL.
Rustem Mussabekov I think it’d be a better UX if Raindrop was assisting users a bit during this process.
One idea: Raindrop could check whether the same _domain_ (without sub-paths, query parameters, etc.) already exists in the database and warn the user about that (without preventing a duplicate entry, because users might be intentionally adding a different sub-page to their bookmarks).
Zach Laster
Domain would be too broad. Every YouTube link would have a warning, then, and one of the more impactful candidates for this feature is YouTube links.
I think the more useful solution would be to allow a droplet to have multiple URLs which it treats as aliases, possibly with some pattern matching rules to help recognize matches.
For example, I've written a script that gets all of my YouTube links in the mobile format and updates the droplet link to match the desktop format for YouTube URLs. This doesn't help for preventing duplication when using mobile, but it does on desktop. Being able to have both URLs in the droplet would resolve this.
There could even be some simple logic for major sites like YouTube which generated link aliases based on the bookmarked URL, possibly specified or modifiable by the user.
A link aliases list would also open up opportunities for "merging" droplets, where one link becomes an alias and all other properties are combined. This would help when unifying the tagging of duplicates before deleting one of them.
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kiwi
Zach Laster: pattern matching would require a priority analysis eg when using #anchor urls vs $/¶meters.
Not to mention there are times when having such duplicate bookmarks is actually useful. Search results and longtext scrolling jumps come to mind.
Zach Laster
kiwi: The pattern matching was an additional thought, and can be discarded.
My primary suggestion is "aliases", which is essentially allowing a droplet to have more than one link associated with it. All links, including aliases, would need to be checked for existing droplets, but that's the only "hard" part.
Anything on top of that is bonus. Automatically generating aliases would be valuable, but can be left to the user.
Rustem Mussabekov
under review
Raindrop prevent saving duplicates when you use our browser/share extensions, always.
Please enable special indicator that will show saved status: https://help.raindrop.io/browser-extension#saved-indicator
But even if this indicator is not enabled, Raindrop extension WILL prevent saving duplicates.
Here the list of possible cases when duplicate check can fail:
- Raindrop web app does not prevent you from creating duplicates (when you click Add in top right corner) https://app.raindrop.io/ - it's expected behaviour, just allows you to create another copy of same URL
- Browser extension can't detect saved status if URL of a page change each time you visit it. Some websites slightly change page URL each time you visit it, they add some tracking info, etc. In this case you always have different URL. Just check page URL and bookmark that you saved and check difference in URL.

Matt Jans
+1 for this. I'm moving from Diigo to Raindrop. Diigo does this with a little red bookmark icon on the extension. See attached. Diigo is the little blue box with white d. If I hadn't bookmarked that page yet, it would just be the blue box with d. The red bookmark shows up when you bookmark it. If you return to the same page later, the red check is still there to tell you you've already bookmaked it. HTH

jp
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definitely on this one
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spirit
Is this available already in the iOS app? Also, I thought it wasn’t possible to add duplicates as there is still an active feature request currently active to add a bookmark to 2 or more collections at the same time…
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dwoodman596@gmail.com
spirit: this is the correct response. You currently cannot upload duplicates. When you try it will just route you to the folder that bookmark already exists in.
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spirit
dwoodman596@gmail.com: it would be great if you could multi-select collections for a particular bookmark rather than only having the option to single-select
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Soumyajit Pathak
spirit: Why not use tags for usecase like that instead of collections?
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spirit
Soumyajit Pathak: let’s say I have a bookmark about how to re-build a car engine. Maybe I want to bookmark under a collection called “General Car Maintenance” and a collection called “My Weekend Engine Rebuild”.
Tags alone can’t achieve this kind of use case.
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Soumyajit Pathak
spirit: this is a personal preference ofc. But I would use tags for things like that while keeping collections for broader topics. In your example, I will save the link under say “Automobile Essentials” or something and then add those two tags.
The way I see the difference between collection and tags is the cardinality aspect. Collection - link is a 1 - N relation while Tag - link is a N - N. And I like that differentiation.
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spirit
Soumyajit Pathak: The only problem is that you can’t share tags whereas you can share collections.
Thats the biggest reason that tags don’t work for this use case. If I want to share a set of links with someone only about “How to Replace a Catalytic Coverter”, I can’t because I’m only allowed to have the bookmark in one collection titled “Automobile Essentials”.
Caution
This is very important because it prevents user from adding unnecessary duplicate bookmarks. Many times we by mistake add duplicate bookmarks.
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Wandle Tommens
Caution: It would also prevent users from accidentally overwriting the previously cached site, which happens if you have auto-save enabled and click the extension button on a previously saved link (destroys the "permanent copy" you previously saved, which is pretty bad design with the current implementation).
Rustem Mussabekov
This supported in browser extension. You need this feature on web/desktop too?
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jLouis Francis IV
Rustem Mussabekov: I was thinking that might be ideal - I end up adding a lot of my links manually in different folders so it's rather easy to end up with duplicates. How it's implemented in the extension is great, I was thinking that for web/desktop it could show you all the locations where that bookmark is duplicated, then give you the option to add regardless or perform a duplicate merge right there
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Rustem Mussabekov: For Android
Zach Laster
Rustem Mussabekov: I'd particularly wish for it in the Android app.
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Pickle Rick
Rustem Mussabekov: I think it should be viewable at a glance.
The extension icon should show the page is bookmarked when you visit it. That would be huge.
Dawid Ferenczy 🦇
Rustem Mussabekov: Before creating a new feature request, I would like to ask what you think about this feature: I would like to have quite an opposite - to be able to create duplicate links in various collections, but ideally without creating actual duplicates or copies of the link.
I mean, the link would exist in a single instance only and collections I assign the link to would contain just a reference to it. So when I edit such link, I always edit the single instance of it, no matter in what collection I'm editing it. When I unassign it from a collection, it disappears just from that collection, the reference is deleted. When I delete the link, it disappears from all collections, obviously.
I'm aware that it may be quite a lot of work to implement and it may be complex, but it would greatly improve the UX. What do you think, please?
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Sarah Gell
Pickle Rick: yes please this would be SO helpful!!!
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Brendon Mosher
Pickle Rick: I second this. Having an indicator that the page has already been bookmarked would be a huge help.