Comments on: Kiwi 1.1 is a stunning upgrade

By: Jesse Almanrode

Jesse Almanrode — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:38:10 +0000

Agreed!

By: samu

samu — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:44:47 +0000

I use Pinboard already; it doesn’t help with the issue of keyboard navigability. In addition, I prefer to use it for long-term bookmarking, and keep short-term “to read” items separate.

By: John

John — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:23:42 +0000

samu, if you take a look at Pinboard ( http://pinboard.in/ ) it will automagically pull links in from your Twitter stream and/or favorites and other places (including Instapaper).

For me it’s been great for consolidating all my “read later” stuff into one place. It might fit your needs too.

By: John

John — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:19:33 +0000

I disagree, completely. Instapaper support is relatively easy to roll in to an app, and the whole point is to get rid of something to read it LATER. Not now. If it gets sent to my browser, I have to switch to the browser, wait for the page to load, press the bookmarklet, potentially log in to Instapaper, close the page/tab, switch away from my browser. Nonsense.

And if you look at the page in your browser the chances are very high you will at least skim through it.

All very distracting! I bang a whole bunch of links and articles into Pinboard and Instapaper all for reading later in the evening when I have finished work and put the family to bed! Isn’t that the entire premise for these services?

Not everyone is a perfectionist like Brent. But, that is why I have been paying for NNW for many years…I think his analytical approach is great but possibly overdone in this case.

By: samu

samu — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:17:13 +0000

A lot of the time, I’ll star tweets on my iPhone so I can look at the links they contain later. Ideally, therefore, I’d have keyboard shortcuts for opening Favourites, and for opening these links in Safari.

As far as I know, Socialite is the only one to offer both of these. Unfortunately, the interface is comically icon-strewn, the current version crashes on launch for me (as does Echofon), and I’m still irritated by being told first that I was entitled to a free upgrade from (MacHeist) Eventbox, and then that I wasn’t*. Brizzly needs the mouse to get to Favourites, but you can V links out into tabs from there. Twitteriffic can open the links, but doesn’t seem to have a Favourites view, and everything else I’ve tried is similarly missing either one half or the other.

… which is a long-winded way of saying, “I wish there was a keyboard shortcut for ‘Open Link’” …

* an initial “no” would have been fine; I got Eventbox for free, after all.

By: WalrusCP

WalrusCP — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:46:54 +0000

You may have a point there. I kinda like it, but it’s not a must-have feature. Very true the bookmarklet is well and good, though some might argue it adds the necessity to open the link and then use the bookmarklet instead of just a single click in the Twitter app.