Origin Story

December 13, 2024 by JoeyK

I think its only fitting that the first blog post on the new site be a short blurb about the app.

My name is Joey Kimsey and this is a project I have been working on for some time. I'm a web developer / full-stack developer by trade and in my day-to-day work I frequently encounter a metric ton of urls to an annoying number of destinations. All of which have various stages and lengths of life. I also need to use up to 3 or 4 different web-browsers and I usually need to do it across several machines.

The problem I kept running into was having a bookmark saved in my work chrome, but not in my work Firefox or vice-versa. Or I would use a personal account to make something easier, only to find I had to copy-paste all the work urls I needed. I would find that when I load up a new server and need this really annoyingly complex link on this server; that inadvertently makes copy-pasting something a nightmare.

To solve this problem, I built a little tool. It would allow me to import bookmarks from literally anywhere, and likewise curate a list of bookmarks that I could keep as an export, or load right back into the browser. I needed dynamic lists, so I built dashboards; they take your existing folders and smack them on one page for easy bookmarking. I just open the page in any web-browser and I have a live-updated list of bookmarks for exactly what I need

I work with many companies who don't necessarily want their links exposed to the world, so I ensured everything had a privacy setting, and it was always set to default to prevent mistakes. I'm visually impaired, so having colors was highly important to me. Because of this, everything can be color coded. It may not be 100% perfect (I'm working on some of the combos) but its an important feature.

Once I started saving thousands of bookmarks, I needed to be able to re-arrange my lists according to what I wanted to see. There needed to be a way to hide or 'archive' links so I wouldn't s