About the Kifi square (the "keeper"):
- you can move it by clicking and dragging it up and down
- you can hide it either on a specific domain or entirely (see settings accessible by clicking on your picture at the top right)
The reason why you would want to keep it around is that Kifi is also a communication and contextual information tool, and it will show notifications from friends and additional information about the page you're on as you browse the web.
About Kifi friends, we will release next week a new "external messaging" feature that enables you to discuss a page with people without them having to be Kifi users. I think it's pretty cool, stay tuned!
However, beyond direct communication, Kifi gets much better with friends as their keeps will enrich your own search results and soon new discovery features, so there is long-term value for you to have them on :)
Does this make sense? Thanks again for checking us out!
Shameless (nonetheless relevant?) plug, I'm a software engineer at https://www.kifi.com, a service that we launched rather silently a couple of months ago and that covers quite a few of the ideas mentioned:
- "add notes, highlight, comment" and "share privately with coworkers" => you can start private discussions on any page, highlight specific content (text, images). At the moment, personal notes are covered by the ability to message yourself.
- "full text search" => this is the core of Kifi. We scrape and index pages in real-time and integrate search results right into Google. Not only yours but also your friends' public bookmarks (you can still keep stuff private) and the network's. Result validation and interesting discoveries ensue.
- "visual bookmarks" => browse all of your bookmarks with additional information and images / screenshots
- "tagging" => yep, and they're fully searchable from Google as well
- "syncing" => iOS app is already live, Android on the way
We're working on several other features including offline mode, a better read-it-later experience, shared libraries, and more cool collaboration and discovery things.
It'd be great to hear your feedback about it, new ideas and suggestions very much welcome :)
I love the idea of bookmarks having an expiration date, good way to keep your bookmarks clean in the long run!