Hey everyone, I hope you’re doing well! As an indie developer, I’ve been working on a software tool that aims to solve a problem that I personally face. I’d really appreciate your thoughts and opinions on it within our community.
Being someone who spends a lot of time browsing the internet, whether it’s for work projects, finding new recipes, or staying up to date with tech and media news, I often come across content or website that I want to save or refer back to later.
However, the traditional methods of bookmarking and clipping content have their limitations. Having a long list of bookmarks makes it difficult to find what I need, and storing clipped pages takes up a lot of space in my notes.
That’s why I’m developing a tool called Mark Kit. It’s designed to make it quick and easy to collect internet content, such as articles, software tools, recipes, and other valuable resources. Instead of saving the entire page, Mark Kit is akin to an advanced iteration of the bookmark bar. Regardless of the website or web page on the Internet, once collected, we automatically classify it for you.
The more importantly is to make content retrieval even more convenient, I’m planning to incorporate AI technology for content recognition. This means that even if you can’t remember the specific details, a basic description of what you’re looking for will help Mark Kit quickly find the relevant content.
I’m curious if any of you have faced similar challenges or if you have any suggestions to improve my idea?
Kinda sounds like Evernote web clipper to me…
There’s also Tabcloud as a tab manager, good for closing a bunch of tabs and returning to them later.
Am I on the right track here, or is what you are proposing different from these?
Kinda sounds like Evernote web clipper to me…
There’s also Tabcloud as a tab manager, good for closing a bunch of tabs and returning to them later.
Am I on the right track here, or is what you are proposing different from these?
It is different from a web clipper, as I see it more like an advanced version of bookmarks where you can save any webpage. The key difference from other bookmarks available in the market is that we automatically organize and categorize the saved webpages. We separate the webpage homepage from its content, and automatically add tags to different types of content to make it easier for you to find and search.
This is our website, and the official product is still under development : https://markkit.in/
Kinda sounds like Evernote web clipper to me…
There’s also Tabcloud as a tab manager, good for closing a bunch of tabs and returning to them later.
Am I on the right track here, or is what you are proposing different from these?
It is different from a web clipper, as I see it more like an advanced version of bookmarks where you can save any webpage. The key difference from other bookmarks available in the market is that we automatically organize and categorize the saved webpages. We separate the webpage homepage from its content, and automatically add tags to different types of content to make it easier for you to find and search.
This is our website, and the official product is still under development : https://markkit.in/
I love the idea! questions… will the saved page be available even if the actual website changes its content or url path?
will the saved page be like a pdf format, selectable text & images, with layout preserved?
honestly thats the problem that this tool might solve for me because what I find is that i had saved some recipe url & then when i go back to it its not there anymore…
so then now as a preemptive i usually screnshot it or download the images etc. then it becomes a disorganised mess be cause some of it is in pocket some in my local, some in pinterest etc.
the ai part is handy to have but doesn’t apply to me as I’m still quite organised. so an opt out for that feature is indeed a must have for privacy concerned users.
also the data should be locally stored with option to connect & sync with cloud service of choice
Saving the snapshots of web pages is one of our plans. Personally, I have collected a lot of useful content, but sometimes, when I revisit them after a while, some of them are no longer available. This is indeed a significant problem.
Our AI does not involve any privacy-related issues. It solely focuses on automatically categorizing and filtering publicly available web page content. However, if anyone has concerns about the AI functionality, I believe providing an option to disable it would be a good choice.
I also love food and have collected many recipes. It’s great to meet you too!
Looks like a nice idea but some people will be skeptic about uploading that data online.
Yes, so I have been thinking about this recently as well. Is it possible to utilize cloud services such as iCloud or Google Drive as the data storage for users, instead of relying on our own servers?
Yes, so I have been thinking about this recently as well. Is it possible to utilize cloud services such as iCloud or Google Drive as the data storage for users, instead of relying on our own servers?