🍪 #3 - Searching for a bookmark manager

And how I use AI to play games

Steven Gobeyn

Nov 08, 2023

Hi,

and welcome again to Little Bites, my weekly bite on productivity, apps, tech, …

This week my quest for a bookmark manager and using AI to play games.

Happy reading,
Steven

Reading time: 3 minutes to chew through.

🔖 My quest to build a bookmark manager

As I’m switching browsers often due to needs at work or just to improve my workflow, I need a quick and easy way to share my bookmarks. I could download them from one and upload them in another, but find this too time-consuming.

Therefore I’ve been looking at platforms to store bookmarks which I can access via each browser.

I’ve had a look at Diigo, Booky, Pocket, Instapaper, Omnivore,… but all serve more as a read-later app, are too complicated or don’t have the features I need.

What I need is:

Multi-browser/platform accessible
Browser extension to save
Easy way of organization
Search
Ability to name/rename a bookmark

In all honesty, I’ve already found all of this in Raindrop.io, which in my opinion is the best bookmark manager available.

However, I can’t use it. Or at least, not at work.
For some reason, its domain is blocked and asking IT to allow it did not change anything.

So, I decided to create my own, or more specifically, follow a YouTube tutorial.
And the only thing I needed for it was Notion (which I already use) and a browser extension called Save to Notion to push information to Notion.

And just like that, I have my own Bookmark Manager.

My bookmarks & web panel to save new ones.

It may lack the address bar search of Raindrop, but it has everything I need without feature overload or the need to pay for a solution.

Any Bookmark Manager you would recommend?

🎮 Using AI to help me play games

Although I don’t have much time or, more precisely, make time for it, I do like playing games. This is something from when I was younger that has still stuck with me.

I have my daily “grind” on Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes (going 5 years and counting) and do have some other games installed on my iPhone but I often don’t push through as they require a lot of playtime or in-depth knowledge to really enjoy it.

This Monday, Football Manager 2024 was released and has a “free version” if you have a Netflix (Football Manager Mobile) or Apple Arcade (Football Manager Touch) subscription.

I like playing Football Manager. It’s immersive, detailed, and realistic,… but this also requires real in-depth knowledge to be successful at it. And this is where I always fail due to lack of time.

However, for this year, I’m trying a different approach.

I’m going to use AI to bridge the knowledge gap.

Since ChatGPT only has data until the end of 2021, I can’t use it for a game of 2023 so I thought of creating a custom AI chatbot fed with Football manager data. However, this would require me to source all websites with useful information and create a knowledge base, requiring frequent updates.

That’s when I tried Perplexity AI, asked it some questions, and got some good relevant answers in return.

Perplexity - A collection of chats and suggestions on playing Football Manager

So from now on, I will rely on Perplexity while playing games.
This will decrease my learning curve and allow me more quality play in the same amount of time I have available.

Have you already used AI for games?

🤪 Dad joke

From ChatGPT.

Why did the bicycle fall over?
Because it was two-tired!

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