Raindrop: beautiful all-in-one bookmark manager

There're just too many stuffs out there.

It is nearly impossible for a human to remember everything that triggered a specific need at random time in our daily life. So we need all kinds of tools to save useful news to read later, funny images or video that our family may enjoy, inspiration that will help boosting our work, and so on. And not just only saving those in a messy way, we need to organize them in a clean and simple way so that we can access them easily anytime when we need them.

There has been a lot of great products that aim to satisfy this basic human need. Basic browser bookmarking tool, Instapaper, Readability, Pocket are all working hard to solve this problem. And now Raindrop is a good contender in this area that we should all know about.

Raindrop is a beautiful all-in-one bookmark manager that integrates auto-tagging, fast search, preview capture, drag and drop features. It is available as a web app, downloadable Mac and Windows app, iOS/Android app, and browser extension in Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera.

It is offered in both free and pro version. Pro version is $2/month ($19/year) with additional:

  • Nested directories
  • Suggested tags
  • 1GB of new uploads each month
  • Dropbox backup
  • Priority support

You can view more about pricing information here.

And now start our review, please hover on images to view them!

Raindrop is now in 4.0 and in this release it has improvements in:

  • Import now supports nested folders
  • Parser has been improved, now more accurately parse articles and links
  • Web app, desktop app and extension has been redesigned and now more customizable: font size, ability to change the size of the card, cover, hide or show the description of bookmarks and more
  • Themes (including dark)
  • Search is even smarter. It suggest filters depend on already entered criteria and current collection
  • Nested collections now displayed as tree in sidebar
  • 3-panel interface to read, view and edit bookmarks without losing context
  • Favourite bookmarks
  • Improved batch functions including ability to transfer multiple bookmarks at once
  • Fixed many bugs of previous version
  • Web App, Chrome, Firefox, Opera extension and Mac app has been updated.
  • Finally Windows users can also take advantage of our application.

Raindrop is a great bookmarking tool that allows you to save all kinds of resources on the Internet including article, photo, video, presentation, web site screenshot, and access them on multiple devices. It is easy to use and able to import all your old bookmarks from browser, Pocket, Instapaper, and Readability so you don't need to start over.

If you are interested, you can try Raindrop here.

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