Bye bye Delicious! Yo Pinboard!
Delicious has been one of my favourite and a tool that I have held since 200[78]. The entity has been through several transitions. People have feared and moved out and became in-active. del.icio.us the most famous domain hack around 2008. Yahoo bought it, later sold it and I don’t know what happened later on.
Then, starting around Dec 2015, Delicious started popping up Advertisements. They were like the ads from 2000s where you see amazing animations which sucked. Improvising to it, in March 2016, they decided to move from https to http which blew my mind away (not literally).
Time to evaluate choices
- Pinboard
- Instapaper
- Evernote
- Google Bookmarks
- Chrome Bookmarks
- Self Hosted Open Source solution
What I really want? (aka The Product Spec)
What I really wanted was a place where I can maintain a public list and query bookmarks by tag for later references.
Both services (Pocket and Pinboard) offer you a way to search through the text itself for the higher versions of the service. You can achieve that with the help of Evernote. Evernote has that capability as well. Google and Chrome Bookmarks sync through devices and follow you, but they lack the UX feel I have been used to(like Delicious). Pocket felt overwhelmingly because of the UI. Its a 2015 UI product, while Pinboard UI continued to stay in the 2010s with the light-weight and simple(way too simple) UI.
I realized that Evernote gives this and way more, but I made the hard choice of keeping Evernote to referencing data from sites instead of actually bookmarking them. Evernote does a lot of things(A LOT).
The DECISION - Pinboard
Pinboard has a yearly $11 pricing for the basic version and been in service more than others. I might move to Pocket later only for the UI, even if it means $45 for the Pro version Also, Pinboard does not bug me with weekly newsletters like Pocket does 😃
Pinboard has the social angle of tagging “for:user” which Delicious killed off just after the Yahoo acquisition(to my knowledge) or after the news Yahoo was buying Delicious. My social circle who were in Delicious immediately reached ZER0.
Follow and suggest me links https://pinboard.in/u:sairam/
The bookmarklet which I can invoke through the keystrokes on chrome helps a lot. yd which invoke the bookmark to open a new window to prompt to add tags.