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Show HN: A work-in-progress Bookmarking manager built on Twitter (linkthing.co)
1 point by dreadsword on June 25, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


I post a continual stream of links to Twitter. LinkThing organizes tweets & links, turning your twitter stream into a bookmarking service. In a nutshell, its like Delicious, but using your Twitter stream, not another separate service. LinkThing will pull in your tweets and index them. You can then sort them by hashtag, keyword, @user, or whatever.

Here's the site: http://linkthing.co

Here's a screenshot of it in action: http://imgur.com/Etgkc

Here's the stub of a privacy policy: http://linkthing.co/privacy.php

I really created this to scratch an itch (the need for an easy, low overhead bookmarking service), and to take advantage of what I perceived to be an untapped resource (the collection of zillions of links that I've already tweeted).

Note: LinkThing is work-in-progress. For instance, there's no way to delete or re-order bookmarks yet, and I haven't written any of the verbiage around the site, etc. etc. The look and feel is obviously boilerplate bootstrap

In that screenshot above, you can see I'm viewing my tweets with #coding or #reference hashtags - this is my quick reference list for things I commonly look up while coding. Note that its in my Bookmarks bar too - for super quick lookups.

Since I started using LinkThing, I've gotten a bit more disciplined with my hashtags, so that I can make good use of the bookmarks. An example would be the #commentedon hashtag: whenever I comment on a article, I tweet a link to it with that hashtag, so at a later date I can follow-up on it from LinkThing.

You can also surface pages publicly: http://linkthing.co/public/qaaab

I'm using LinkThing to share links about the Kettle Valley Railway with some folks that I'm planning a big bike vacation with: http://linkthing.co/public/0haab

Let me know your thoughts, and thank-you for taking the time to look.




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