Where do you save products for later?
Hey, Indie Hackers community!
I would love to hear your thoughts on how you manage products you want to buy online, but you're not sure when is the right time to buy them, and in that case, what are you doing with them? Do you save them, if yes then where?
I just use bookmarks, the oldskool way
Oldskool and the simplest way of doing it! Sometimes it's better NOT to find new ways when you can just go with the thing that is working since a while
Use Toby, or Toby mini free chrome extension. It works like a charm
What do you mean by "it works like a charm"? Is it because of the easy organization of the collections and drag and drop functionality, or what is it? Could you elaborate more on this?
easy organization, drag and drop functionality, sync, and sharing it to others, plus it is 100% free
Exactly, I think the same as you! Drag and drop functionality is a great behaviour of the quick action to manage and organize your stuff! Sharing it to others is a perfect combination of working together with your friends.
If you have a time, I would love to hear your feedback on this app https://www.latr.app/
just Chrome bookmarket and category them ! and also a desktop software "mybase" to store some useful info!
And how do you category them? What is useful info for you?
You'll find out that most of the bookmarks are useless after 1-2 months! So make some categories first in the Chrome and collect the info in the right category! For the useful info is that something you need to remeber... will get them back to the desktop !
True that bookmarks are great, but we have to update them daily to keep them fresh! The same goes for the category structure. Would love to hear your feedback on this app if you have a time to check it out https://www.latr.app/ :)
chrome bookmarks, many categories.
and how do you handle many categories? do you name them with the specific topic or?
Yes. I suppose it's a mix of positioning to minimize the number of clicks to get to a link by putting most-used projects near the top, and as well having general categories on the top level as well. Example:
|Reviews & News
|Suppliers
|Tech Support
|-Apple
|-Active Directory
|-Backup
|- (etc)
|Tools
|-Business
|--development
|--ecommerce
|--productivity
|-- (etc)
|-Chat
|--Text
|--Video
|--Slack related
|Project A
|-marketing
|-sample sites
and so on.
Nice, that is a great structure which brings clarity to the products you saved! Would love to hear your feedback on this app if you have a minute to check it out https://www.latr.app/
I add the most interesting products to my bookmarks in Chrome. I save other products to Google Keep through its official Chrome extension, which works as a sort of web clipper.
How do you define these interesting products? And how do you manage your bookmarks?
It's easier to say what's interesting when seeing it than by defining it. But, in general, I consider potentially interesting SaaS products, web apps, and cloud tools such as development environments, no-code platforms, productivity apps, design tools, media editors, and so on.
I organize bookmarks in a hierarchy of folders by wide and loosely related topics. For example, I have folders for Android, Google, software development, and more.
Gotcha about this type of the products, and how about products you want to buy online, from stores like Amazon, Walmart, BestBuy, Target and so on...
Great to hear that! I think we—users are in love of this type of the hierarchy when it comes to the organization of the products/items and other stuff. It's way easier to find something later on, when you have the right name of the stuff you saved for later.
For products I want to buy online, I almost exclusively use the retailer platform's wishlist features, such as Amazon's. I rarely bookmark or save elsewhere those kinds of product pages.
Paolo, a lot of great information on this topic from you :) Would love to hear your feedback on this app https://www.latr.app/
Thanks. I actually don't use iOS, only Android.