It does a ton of things, but in this specific case you can easily send links to yourself with one click and then instantly access them on the other device.
Do this:
1.) Create a Linkdrop account
2.) Click the cog/settings icon next to "My Bookmarks" once you are logged in
3.) Drag the green "My Bookmarks" button/link to your bookmarks toolbar
That's pretty much all you need to do. It will add a "My Bookmarks" shortcut on your bookmarks bar in your browser. There's nothing to install.
Then whenever you are on a website that you want to look at on your other device just click that "My Bookmarks" button on your bookmarks bar and it will save the link automatically to your Linkdrop account with one click. You don't need to do anything else.
Then just open Linkdrop on your device (I have it as a shortcut on my phone) and click the link. It will be at the top of your collection.
Make it pretty simple. Visit website on computer... click "My Bookmarks"... open Linkdrop on device... click the link. Done. With just one click on the computer and one tap on the device.
You can also drag the "Drop" bookmarklet from Linkdrop to your bookmarks bar which will put a "Drop" button on your browser bookmark bar. Clicking this button when on a website will open a window allowing you to choose which folders to save the link to. This way you can choose "My Bookmarks" from the list and also any other folders, such as those shared with other people you've added. If you don't choose any from the list it will automatically save to "My Bookmarks". This way you can use the "Drop" button when you need to send to multiple people, but can still quickly send to "My Bookmarks" by just not selecting any folders. I have both the "Drop" button and a "My Bookmarks" button in my bookmarks bar. The "Drop" button can be found on the "help" page link or by choosing "Browser button" from the settings menu in the upper right of your account.
(NOTE: SSL protected pages won't allow the "My Bookmarks" bookmarklet to save the link since it is a third-party script from another site, so you need to use the standard "Drop" bookmarklet for SSL pages and choose "My Bookmarks" from the list. Two clicks instead of one, not a big deal, but this is because web browsers won't execute a script from linkdrop.com on another website when the other website is secured by https/SSL.)
So, you can create a custom bookmarklet for any folder you have to add links to it with one click and/or use the regular "Drop" button to open a list of folders to choose from.
You can also email links to your library by setting a username in Linkdrop and then emailing links to your username @linkdrop.com
This is great if you're on a mobile device and want to save a link or send it to your computer. Just click share on your mobile device, choose email, send to your username @linkdrop.com and the link shows up in your library in a few seconds.
Anyway, click "Show features and more information" on http://www.linkdrop.com/ to see everything it does.
It creates a backup screenshot of every link, indexes the text so you can search the full body of your bookmarks instead of just titles, lets you backup YouTube and other videos to your account, connects with Dropbox and backs up your library, screenshots, videos, etc to your Dropbox account, allows you to share with others, lets you send links to Facebook and Twitter, and lots of other stuff.
- Permanently stores the link and its full content within seconds
- Takes a screenshot of the page
- Saves the entire HTML for full text searching (like a private search engine of just your links)
- If the bookmark points to a file it downloads a backup copy of the file
- Creates a backup copy of YouTube and other videos that I drop to myself so that I never lose them (This is the feature I upgraded to a paid account for because free accounts get lower quality video backups and it's the same with screenshots. I wanted high quality everything.)
- Connects to Dropbox and copies all of my bookmarks, screenshots, and video / file backups to a folder in Dropbox
- Lets me email links to myself to save them
- Lets me share with other people who have an account
- Notifies me with a text when somebody else sends me a link (I use this all the time, I get random links from people throughout the day)
- Lets me organize, filter, and sort my links like an inbox specifically for links
- Emails me a list of links I've received at a regular interval
- Has a Pinterest-style grid view option
- Works on my phone
- Can send links to Facebook and Twitter at the same time through it
- Can save links with one click using bookmarklets for my folders
There's more, but those are the main features that I think make it worth using. Check out the site to see a better feature list.
It does exactly what I need it to by acting as an endpoint for my links.
If I want to save something and make sure I can find it again later I drop it to myself on Linkdrop which also backs it up to Dropbox. Very useful in my opinion.
http://www.linkdrop.com
It does a ton of things, but in this specific case you can easily send links to yourself with one click and then instantly access them on the other device.
Do this:
1.) Create a Linkdrop account
2.) Click the cog/settings icon next to "My Bookmarks" once you are logged in
3.) Drag the green "My Bookmarks" button/link to your bookmarks toolbar
That's pretty much all you need to do. It will add a "My Bookmarks" shortcut on your bookmarks bar in your browser. There's nothing to install.
Then whenever you are on a website that you want to look at on your other device just click that "My Bookmarks" button on your bookmarks bar and it will save the link automatically to your Linkdrop account with one click. You don't need to do anything else.
Then just open Linkdrop on your device (I have it as a shortcut on my phone) and click the link. It will be at the top of your collection.
Make it pretty simple. Visit website on computer... click "My Bookmarks"... open Linkdrop on device... click the link. Done. With just one click on the computer and one tap on the device.
You can also drag the "Drop" bookmarklet from Linkdrop to your bookmarks bar which will put a "Drop" button on your browser bookmark bar. Clicking this button when on a website will open a window allowing you to choose which folders to save the link to. This way you can choose "My Bookmarks" from the list and also any other folders, such as those shared with other people you've added. If you don't choose any from the list it will automatically save to "My Bookmarks". This way you can use the "Drop" button when you need to send to multiple people, but can still quickly send to "My Bookmarks" by just not selecting any folders. I have both the "Drop" button and a "My Bookmarks" button in my bookmarks bar. The "Drop" button can be found on the "help" page link or by choosing "Browser button" from the settings menu in the upper right of your account.
(NOTE: SSL protected pages won't allow the "My Bookmarks" bookmarklet to save the link since it is a third-party script from another site, so you need to use the standard "Drop" bookmarklet for SSL pages and choose "My Bookmarks" from the list. Two clicks instead of one, not a big deal, but this is because web browsers won't execute a script from linkdrop.com on another website when the other website is secured by https/SSL.)
So, you can create a custom bookmarklet for any folder you have to add links to it with one click and/or use the regular "Drop" button to open a list of folders to choose from.
You can also email links to your library by setting a username in Linkdrop and then emailing links to your username @linkdrop.com
This is great if you're on a mobile device and want to save a link or send it to your computer. Just click share on your mobile device, choose email, send to your username @linkdrop.com and the link shows up in your library in a few seconds.
Anyway, click "Show features and more information" on http://www.linkdrop.com/ to see everything it does.
It creates a backup screenshot of every link, indexes the text so you can search the full body of your bookmarks instead of just titles, lets you backup YouTube and other videos to your account, connects with Dropbox and backs up your library, screenshots, videos, etc to your Dropbox account, allows you to share with others, lets you send links to Facebook and Twitter, and lots of other stuff.