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7 points by zakj ↗ HN
My partner and I are avid users of Delicious/Pinboard and wanted a quick way to add to and access our stored bookmarks. We created a Chrome extension to scratch that itch. It shows your ten most-recent bookmarks by default, with a fast search interface to find older bookmarks, and keyboard shortcuts for navigation. We plan to add pagination in an upcoming release, and have considered adding support for Safari as well as alternate bookmarking backends.

The (mostly CoffeeScript) source is up on GitHub, and may be interesting as an example of caching Backbone Collections in localStorage or using in-page iframes to simulate opening a Chrome extension popup via keyboard shortcut.

Is this something you find useful? We welcome comments or suggestions.

  https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ndjggnnohdkheiijjhbklkanjcpibbng
  https://github.com/cabin/linkhunter

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zakj
Clickable links:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ndjggnnohdkheiijjh...

https://github.com/cabin/linkhunter

bmelton
Hrm. Won't let me log in.

At least, I think that's what the "Something smells rotten" error is supposed to mean.

I just registered for Delicious to try this out, as apparently my old account didn't survive the acquisition, so I know my username and password are valid.

Thoughts?

zakj
That is indeed the "auth failed" error. Only two things I can think of: either you toggled the service slider to "Pinboard" without noticing, or Delicious authentication was down briefly. There was at least one other report of that:

https://twitter.com/#!/egebhardt/status/176776297106771968

Are you still getting that error?

bmelton
I am. I've verified username, password, and have tried both the Pinboard and Delicious options, and now I'm getting the "Oof! Delicious rejected that username/password" error.

Logged out of delicious, logged back in to verify the credentials. Restarted the browser and tried again -- same error.

On the upside, it's easily one of the best login screens I've seen, and the error animation is quite nice. :-)

zakj
(I responded to the email address in your profile.)
rgregory
This is fantastic. Thank you.
tnorthcutt
Looks well put together. A few comments:

1. I suggest adding they keyboard shortcuts/other instructions to http://madebycabin.com/work/linkhunter

2. I suggest making the "Linkhunter" item in the context menu opened by right-clicking link to http://madebycabin.com/work/linkhunter instead of http://madebycabin.com/

3. Ctrl+j (for me) opens Chrome's Downloads page. Since you use a capital "j" in describing the shortcuts, I tried ctrl+shift+j, but that opens the console in developer tools. How can I use the keyboard shortcuts?

4. Autocompletion of tags when adding a bookmark would be a very good feature to add (IMO).

zakj
Thanks so much for taking the time to critique!

1 & 2: Great ideas.

3: We obviously dropped the ball on Windows QA. On the Mac, the Downloads window is cmd-shift-j, so I figured it was similar on Windows. Ideally we should make the keyboard shortcut configurable, but could you suggest a good unused Windows shortcut for the meantime?

4. Absolutely. It's on our list!

tnorthcutt
Ctrl+Alt+p seems open. Same with ctrl+alt+d. You could use 'p' in Pinboard mode and 'd' in Delicious mode. If only one, I'd default to 'p' - feels easier (to me) to press.