We published a small but handy change to our chrome extension: Undo. If you are like us and sometimes mistakenly click on “Add current page to thinkery” you can now click “Undo” in the bookmark overlay (see screenshot). We hope you find this little improvement useful.
We’re introducing a new and powerful feature today: special tags. You can give certain tags special properties like adding a background color to things.
This could look like this:
On the settings page you can edit those special tags and add some of your own. We have predefined 3 tags for you: red, green and todo. You can use a page like colr.org to find good looking colors.
You can customize all of this and although the options are a bit limited so far, we see this as a powerful way to give you the ability to customize thinkery to your own needs.
Of course you can also add colors to your existing tags. Makes it way easier to get back some order into your brain :)
We hope you enjoy this new feature as much as we do and that it makes Thinkery even better for you. Now, head over to the settings page!
We all discover new web apps each year but not every one of them gets the recognition it deserves. With 2011 drawing to a close, we wanted to highlight the 10 we felt deserved a bit more hype.
Psst, we just released an improved version of thinkery with lots of small tweaks but also bigger improvements. Here are the features at a glance.
Read moreMissing features that would make your life even easier? Use our new feature requests page to tell us what you’re missing. Hint: some of them are already on their way :-)
While we’re waiting (actually we’re working hard to get them online soon) for all the awesome new features we want to highlight a small but very practical feature: Hold shift on your keyboard and click to quickly select a range of things in your list, then use the “bulk edit” menu in order to add or remove tags, make things public / private, archive or delete them. See screenshot after the click.
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We’re now helping you to tag things even faster: with tag autocompletion.
This works everywhere you would expect it: when searching or adding things in the big input field, in bulk edit mode or when you edit a single thing.
As soon as you start typing the autocomplete window will open and you can select the appropriate tag with TAB on your keyboard or by clicking with your mouse.
We hope you like it as much as we do.
Found an interesting PDF on the web you want to save for later reading / searching? Just copy & paste the link, or, use our bookmarklet / chrome extension in order to swiftly add it to your thinkery.
Here’s a PDF example: O’Reilly Web 2.0 Report Excerpt
Currently the system only extracts text (the first 25 pages, no images). We’ll improve the processing in the future.
Following up on our commandlinefu plugin we built another handy plugin for developers: Gist.
You can now add Gist URLs to your thinkery and the content will be automagically extracted, saved and made available to you. Check out the example.
Read moreOur Bookmarks Importer now checks if you already added / imported a URL to thinkery. This will prevent spamming your brain.
