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In my opinion: you're clipping content + structure, and not just something like images/text. So you get to preserve the original layout, links, etc, which is a
by itay 14y ago
In my opinion: you're clipping content + structure, and not just something like images/text. So you get to preserve the original layout, links, etc, which is a huge benefit.
You can also have things private and/or shared with a select group of people, which is what I usually do.
For example, a common use case I've found is that I'll clip something from Gilt/other signup required sites, to show someone a deal they might be interested in, but they don't want to sign up just to look at it. If they like it, they end up signing up.
- idleloops 14y agoThanks for that. So the clips aren't totally live - if you are sharing content that is somehow walled off.
- itay 14y agoI'm not quite sure what you mean. Your clips can be private and shared with a few people (or none), or they can be completely public. In the example I gave, I wouldn't really mind if they were public, but I don't see a reason to make them public - it is just to share with a few friends, really.
- idleloops 14y agoI might have misunderstood the product. I assumed (though this would be tough), that when you took a snippet of a page, and say the page updated later on - the snippet would reflect the change. You make it sound like the snippets are static caches of content.
- itay 14y agoYes, that's my understanding as well. That's also what I want. I'm taking a snapshot in time of a page, so that I can then go back to that snapshot and look at it. Sometimes those snapshots are not valuable after a while, so I delete them :)