Raindrop No More

Almost out of nowhere, I decided to delete my Raindrop.io account today. It had something like 250 bookmarks in it, but I hadn’t used the service in quite some time to save anything new. I’d moved from Pinboard to Raindrop.io years ago. Both services are great for saving bookmarks and have similar feature sets when it comes to folders, tags, etc.

The reason I deleted the Raindrop.io account is that bookmarking as a service just no longer fits my mental model. The way I approach this now is that if it is something I want to read, I save it to Matter (my read-later app of choice). Once I read something there, I archive it. I don’t go back to those bookmarks, almost ever. What I recognized about myself is that having a huge collection of bookmarks is just giving me more to have to organize and manage. I rarely ever went back to Raindrop.io. It was like a graveyard of links I’d never do anything with, yet I’d tag them and put them into categories. Raindrop.io is a great app for those that manage their bookmarks in a robust way. It just wasn’t for me anymore.

For anything that I truly believe I’ll come back to, I save it to mymind. I use mymind for more than bookmarks. It has become my private vault of sorts, for pictures, links, color palettes, inspiration, mood boards, books, movies, and much more. I’m going to write a post about why I’ve moved in this direction, but for today, realizing I no longer needed Raindrop.io was a nice feeling since that digital clutter has now been removed.