Say hello to Ditto, AI for bookmarks ✨

Here at Dropmark, we’ve been at bookmarks a long time — twelve years to be exact. Like everyone else, we’re guilty of piling up interesting links in a “Read it later” collection, and then forgetting to actually read them despite our best intentions. Who is going to save us from this ever-growing backlog?

TLDR: Ditto is a friendly AI assistant here to help you organize your bookmarks and read it later smarter.

Powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Ditto is the ultimate tool for your Dropmark collections. Ditto is 100% optional, and you can opt-in at the collection level. With every link you save in a Ditto-enabled collection, Ditto rolls up its digital sleeves and gets down to business. You’ll automatically see:

  1. Articles distilled into a brief summary (saving you precious reading time)
  2. Suggested relevant #tags (making organization a breeze)

Screenshot showing Ditto in use

As a conversational assistant, Ditto does a whole lot more. Mention @ditto-bot to unlock a bucket load of features related to your bookmarks, for example:

  • Extract formatted recipes 🥗
  • Get bullet points from an article 📌
  • Recommend related links 🌐
  • Compare products for smarter shopping 🛍️
  • Fetch addresses and crucial info 📍
  • Create tidy shopping lists 📝
  • And anything else you can think of! 💭

Consider Ditto as your shiny new team player, here to streamline your bookmarks. Eager to try it out? Sign up for early access at https://ditto.works and get ready to revolutionize your bookmark game! 💥

Introducing document scanning for iOS

We’re excited to announce document scanning is now available in our iPhone and iPad apps.

Now you can quickly scan photos, sketches, multi-page documents, and more on the go. Dropmark saves your scans as high-quality PDFs to your collection of choice.

To scan documents in Dropmark for iOS:

  1. Tap the Add (+) button and select Scan Documents.
  2. Place your document in view of the camera.
  3. When in Auto mode, Dropmark will automatically scan your document. If you need to manually capture a scan, tap the round shutter button ⚪️ (or one of the phone’s volume buttons). Then drag the corners to adjust the scan to fit the page, and tap Keep Scan.
  4. Tap Save to complete, or add additional pages to the document.

Happy scanning!

If you love Dropmark, we’d love for you to leave us a review on the App store to help reach more people!

Collection descriptions are here!

We’ve been slowly rolling out new features and visual updates to collections over the past few weeks. Now available on both web and iOS are collection descriptions.

Collection descriptions have a prominent location above your items, and provide a text-based space for additional context, instructions for your team and collaborators, and (of course) your favorite emojis. Get creative with it!

Along with this update, we also now show avatars of teams and folks who have collaborator access to the collection, so you can easily see who’s included at a glance.

This is a small step in a larger visual update, so stay tuned for more :)

Dropmark turns 10

Once upon a time, ten whole internet years ago, a little software service called Dropmark was born. (We mention internet years because that’s like, at least 70 in people years.)

It all started in 2011 when we noticed a problem with our client workflow. It was too easy to get sucked into scroll holes while trying to be productive, and even easier for our work to get buried in email leading to confusion and frustration. We decided to build something better; a tool that wasn’t a time suck and let you get back to what’s important.

That’s part of what makes us different.

At Dropmark, our goals continue to be: simplicity, effectiveness, and privacy. We want to be a breath of fresh air in the software cloud that you can rely on. We developed Dropmark with a sustainable mindframe and hope to be here until the end of time. By allowing you to control who sees your collections, who can collaborate with you, and never showing you ads or an endless wall of posts to distract, your work will shine.

To celebrate this milestone, we’re looking back on the past decade of Dropmark. Celebrate with us → dropmark.com/ten

Import from Wake

Illustration: Import from Wake to Dropmark

After being acquired by InVision in 2018, design collaboration tool Wake announced it will be shutting down as of October 15, 2020. Wake’s users were unfortunately left without a tool to export their data, but Dropmark is here to help!

To preserve your team’s important work, you can now import your content from Wake to Dropmark. All your images, videos, sets, and tags will be safely imported so you can continue collaborating with your team.

If you’re new here, Dropmark is a visual collaboration tool for creative people and teams. We’ve been around since 2011 (nearly 10 years!) and are trusted by thousands of creative and productive companies like Apple, Pentagram, and The Atlantic. To date our users have uploaded nearly 25 million items, and growing every day. Find out more about Dropmark on our home page and get a free 30 day trial for your team.

Use Dropmark on a variety of devices

Dropmark is everything your team needs in one super searchable platform: links, images, files, videos, and more. Organize your content with stacks and #tags, and gather feedback with comments and annotations. To help your team continue to share work and keep in sync, Dropmark has native apps available for macOS, iPhone, and iPad, browser extensions for all major web browsers, and integration with Slack.

To import your data from Wake, head over to import.dropmark.com before October 15, 2020.

If you have any questions setting up your team or migrating your data from Wake (or elsewhere), drop us a line 👋

Happy collaborating!

Resources for remote teams

We’ve been seeing a lot of remote teams join Dropmark recently, especially with the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. Whether you are new to Dropmark or new to working remotely, we thought we’d share some resources to help you and your team remain productive during this trying time.

Here’s where to get started:

As a remote-friendly team ourselves, we designed Dropmark Teams to make collaboration easy and highly visual. With all your resources in one place, there’s no time wasted endlessly scrolling or scrambling across multiple platforms. It’s easy to use whether your colleagues are in the same office or across different time zones.

How do teams use Dropmark to get things done? Here are a few of our favorite interviews from real teams using Dropmark every day:

Bonus resources:

If your team is new to Dropmark, send us a note to team@dropmark.com and we’ll give you 3 months free to get you started.