A friend asked me which bookmarking service I switched to after I moved on from the Pinboard bookmark service.

tl;dr I use Raindrop. The product and API works wonderfully. 👍

A good bookmark service should:

• be easy to add a bookmark
• have a good browser extension or have a good bookmarklet
• be the best personal search engine
• be a good research tool for taking notes and allowing tagging
• be reliable
• maintain reasonable uptime

Today, I realized I had been on Raindrop’s FREE plan for over a year, so I fixed that and upgraded to a PRO account.

That’s a good sign since I have ~40k and over two decades of bookmarks, and they never pressured me to upgrade or put limits on my account in any frustrating way.

Why I gave up on Pinboard

I could write thousands of words about how frustrating being a paid user was, but I’ll sum it up as running Pinboard wasn’t a priority for Pinboard’s founder, and it painfully showed. 👎