About LStack

LStack is smart bookmarking app. It allows you to quickly save bookmarks, annotate them with tags and custom parameters, group them into streams and stream groups, and manage your bookmarks database.

Features

• Bookmark any webpage with bookmarklet (see below)
• Annotate bookmark with tags or smart tags (see below)
• Organize bookmarks into streams and stream groups
• Attach parameters to bookmarks with smart tags (eg.: source:cnn.com, price:170 USD, score:5.8, contact:hr@ibm.com)
• Add bookmarks by emailing them to your LStack username@lstack.mailgun.org
• Share links via RSS feeds generated for any combination of filters (use orange RSS button at the top of links list)
• You own your data - easy download of your entire bookmarks database in clean, simple XML format

Bookmarking

LStack uses JavaScript bookmarklet to let you store and annotate links to webpages. It was tested under Firefox and Chrome, but should work under other modern browsers too.

Bookmarking on iPhone, iPad and other mobile devices

In addition to using bookmarklet, you can use "Email this link" feature built into most mobile browsers, RSS and news readers. To send a bookmark to your LStack links database:

• email should be sent from email account you've registered with in LStack (important for people using many email accounts)
• email should be sent to your LStack username@lstack.mailgun.org (in future it will be @lstack.com)
• email subject will become the link title
• first occurence of any URL formatted string (like - http://cnn.com) in the message body will become link address
• email body (content) will become the link description (it needs some cleanup in LStack)

Advice: you can edit and annotate emailed link in LStack, so just send it and take care about the details later.

Tags

LStack allows you to add virtually unlimited number of tags to any bookmark. Tags then can be used to find links by given tag (or more of them). LStack accepts any word or phrase as a tag. Tags are comma (,) separated.

Attention: LStack tags are not case sensitive. We recommend you to use lowercase tag names - they are internally indexed and searched this way.

Smart tags

With LStack you can attach to bookmarked link an arbitrary number of"smart tags", which consist of tag name and its value. The syntax is name:value. You can attach any number of values for given tag name (eg. author:kernighan brian w., author:ritchie dennis m.). LStack filtering makes it easy to filter links via tag names and values.

Some examples and applications:

• store price of bookmarked product, eg. price:199 USD
• store contact email to the company you've bookmarked, eg. email:contact@new-company.com
• rate the webapp you've found, eg. usability:average
• annotate bookmarked books with the names of your friends that could be interested in reading it, eg. recommend to:peter
• annotate YouTube videoclips with artist name, song title or year, eg. artist:madonna, song:like a virgin, album:like a virgin, year:1984, genre:pop, genre:pop rock, genre:dance
• annotate interesting news or article with the name of the companies and / or people it refers to, eg. person:jobs steve, company:apple
• store the type of linked content, eg. type:article or type:webapp or type:video or type:book or type:news

Feel free to use any custom names and values and invent your parameter schemes. Create a convention that fits your purpose and stick to it - it will allow you to apply current and future LStack features (like filtering) and will increase the value of your bookmarks database.

Automatic smart tags

LStack automatically creates and attaches some smart tags to your bookmarks.

Current list of automatic smart tags:

• source - contains domain name (stripped of "www" prefix if it exists) of bookmarked webpage, allows you to easily find all bookmarks from given website; example: source:cnn.com

As LStack is developed new automatic smart tags will be added and connected to LStack actions and / or behaviors.

Access control

By default each link bookmarked in LStack is private. Only you can see it, edit it, delete it, etc.

Specifically, by default links:

• are not listed in your RSS feed
• cannot be followed via http://lstack.com/go/<link id>

You can make link public by checking "Is public?" box in link edit form.

Public links:

• can be seen in your public RSS feeds, eg. http://lstack.com/feed/<user name>
• can be followed via http://lstack.com/go/<link id>

Streams

LStack allows you to save any filter as stream. LStack comes with 2 predefined streams:

• All - all bookmarks in your collection
• Emailed - bookmarks you've emailed to your LStack account (see: email integration)

You can define your own streams by setting combination of tags in stream configuration. LStack will allow you to quickly find only those bookmarks that have all specified tags and smart tags attached. This way you can create arbitrary selections of bookmarks, containing for example: all work related bookmarks, all videos you've bookmarked, bookmarks related to specific project (if you've marked them with specific tag, like - project:lstack).

Stream groups

Streams can be organized into groups. You can define groups, order them as you need, also fold or unfold them. This allows to organize your workspace according to your needs and quickly navigate between streams.

Bookmarklet

Drag the link below to your browsers bookmark bar:

...or copy this code to manually create bookmark:

javascript:(function(){f='http://www.lstack.com/link/contribute?url='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'&description='+encodeURIComponent(''+(window.getSelection?window.getSelection():document.getSelection?document.getSelection():document.selection.createRange().text));a=function(){if(!window.open(f,'lstack','location=1,links=0,scrollbars=0,toolbar=0,width=440,height=480'))location.href=f};if(/Firefox/.test(navigator.userAgent)){setTimeout(a,0)}else{a()}})()