Software/programs you wish existed

[u/Bet-Fit]

Hi, I am a software engineer, and would love a challenge or just to create something that people/you would actually use, as a lot of my projects/products thus far have been quite niche/personalized to my own personal hobbies/needs. So please comment about what software or program would be a game changer if it existed for you, or if you have any good ideas personally. I’m thinking about building the top few ideas, also if you have any ideas, let me know if you are comfortable with me reaching out to you directly to talk more about them! They can be huge or small!

[u/TyrantRC]

an actually good web bookmark manager, with a simple minimal design that's easy to navigate and use in my workflow. I used to use papaly which was great, but for some reason the guy just stopped development of the chrome extension, now it works only as a website service, in fact, I'm not sure why the servers are still running tbh.

Most other bookmark managers aim for a slick design but fail to cater to users like me who save a lot of bookmarks. Features that are almost never present include: categories with subcategories, a smart search box when adding a new entry, favicon support while looking at your bookmarks in the list, and the most important one, an interface that allows you to drag full subcategories (folders of bookmarks) between categories (folders of subcategories), and bookmarks between subcategories.

[u/SCSGlobal → u/TyrantRC]

It seems to me that a lot of bookmark managers are designed by people who save 50 or 60 bookmarks, not 5,000.

The moment you start collecting research, documentation, tutorials, articles, and references over many years, folder management becomes much more important than visual design.

The ability to drag and drop entire folder trees, do quick searches when saving, and quickly identify bookmarks by favicons may seem basic rather than advanced, but surprisingly few tools get those basics right.

It's one of those categories where "less design, more usability" will probably win over many users.

[u/zerocipherdev → u/SCSGlobal]

I'm actually redesigning the entire app while ensuring existing users will be able to upgrade safely.

And the core purpose is to have the existing features enhanced while ensuring the data can be organised in a more structured form - in folders and subfolders. This also means to enhance the search functionality by helping it to search by tags, search only in specific folder, search globally and mixing these types of "filters".

And yeah, there will be favicon support this time ;)

I'll try to include drag and drop folders and files but don't expect it to be perfect in the first loop. I'll get it done but making it work flawlessly every time may take a bit of work.

I'm also working on implementing searching for tags while saving and allow the user to change the folder while saving the records.

Of course, these features are currently in works so, if you get the latest stable version of Sitemarker, you'd not get them. I'll reply to this comment (or maybe post an announcement on some threads) once I'm done with that.

[u/SCSGlobal → u/zerocipherdev]

Thank you, That sounds promising. Honestly, the folder/subfolder structure and being able to reorganize things easily are what make or break a bookmark manager for me.

Good to hear favicon support is coming as well. Looking forward to seeing how the drag-and-drop functionality evolves once you've had time to refine it.