WebnoteHappy Review: A Delicious Bookmarker
- Delicious support
- Organization with folders and smart folders
- Could use previews or Cover Flow
- Must be open to add new webnotes (could use menubar item)
As users of the Internet, we come across hundreds of pages a day. Many of these we would like to save, but figure they will just be in the History later. A great service for easily bookmarking pages you would like to remember is Delicious. It allows you to store your bookmarks online with added social capabilities. So, because Delicious is such a great service, Mac developers decided to start making clients. One of these is WebnoteHappy, by Happy Apps.
Although WebnoteHappy integrates with Delicious, it does not require you to use Delicious to store or view your bookmarks. So, you are not required to sign up for anything. You just download and go.
WebnoteHappy’s best feature is its ease-of-use. You can either use shortcuts or the application itself to add new bookmarks. By default, the shortcut to add a webnote (bookmark) is Command-Shift-D. Of course, for you to use this shortcut, the app must be open. When you hit that shortcut in almost any web browser (or any major web browser), you will see a popup that allows you to add a description, tags, a title and where to keep the webnote. If you choose to Share Via Delicious and you don’t already have Delicious set up in WebnoteHappy, a sheet will appear on its main window that asks you for your username and password.
As said above, you can also add a new webnote in the application itself. To do this, you just have to click the New toolbar item, and you will get a popup where you will insert the relevant information (all the information mentioned above, plus a URL).
WebnoteHappy also has organizing capabilities. You can create both folders and smart folders to keep certain webnotes in. It comes with two already made smart folders: Last 24 house and Last 7 days. To add a new folder, just go to File>New Folder, and to add a new smart folder, go to File>New Smart Folder. If you are creating a smart folder, you will then be asked for the conditions that need to be met for a webnote to be in the folder.
Along with sharing bookmarks to Delicious, WebnoteHappy also allows you to import from Delicious, Safari, Firefox, OmniWeb and XBEl and export to HTML and XBEL. To do this, just go to either File>Import from, or File>Export to, and choose the relevant format.
My only real gripe in WebnoteHappy is its interface. It looks slightly outdated. With just a few changes such as: different toolbar icons, bigger +/- buttons and different folder icons, it could look amazing. Also, if Cover Flow browsing was added, or at least previews, that would be a big plus as well.
Happy Apps‘ WebnoteHappy retails for $24.95, and you can get a family pack for only $5 more! You can also download a free, 30-day trial from their Web site. Although it has an outdated interface, it is extremely simple to use and very fast. However, if previews or Cover Flow was added, the import/add of a webnote time would probably increase. But whether you are a social bookmarking lover, or just want a nice database of your bookmarks, WebnoteHappy can help you.
Is this app still being developed? There are no updates since April 2008.
I use WebnoteHappy and I like it, but I’m feeling a little unsure about its future development.
A while back I saw a free app that did this to a certain extent, but now I cannot remember the app’s name.
Thanks for the review! We’ll take a look at the cons listed and see if we can improve on them.
MJV: It is still in development. We got stuck in a long beta cycle. If you would like to look at the latest beta, please send an email to feedback@happyapps.com. We’ll be cleaning it up and releasing it soon.
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