Suggestions for amending previously-saved bookmarks workflow

Hi Justin,

Thanks for Pukka! It is a great little app, its speediness in particular is most appreciated for those of us who used to use the dreadful delicious bookmarklet in Safari or Chrome. I did have some resistance to the price admittedly, but thankfully your article and Daniel Jalkut's article won me over. Pricing is certainly a minefield.

I've been using it now for just over two weeks so I thought I'd send some suggestions and feedback I've had. Overall, it has performed wonderfully. I currently have 9234 bookmarks (a bit obsessive) and Pukka has managed them without a hitch! :)

Some specific feedback:

#1
The issue I'm hitting upon all the time is that when I save a bookmark and Pukka goes off and submits it, I find myself quite regularly wanting to add a few extra tags to that bookmark before I'm finished reading the page. But if I hit the Pukka bookmarklet again, I get the empty Add Link dialog, since the bookmark I just saved isn't in the local cache (and won't be for about an hour).

It seems like the easiest way to solve this (I use the term "easiest" advisedly), would be to add any bookmarks saved by Pukka to the local Core Data cache at the time when they are saved. Then further calls on the Pukka bookmarklet would hit in the cache and behave as if the local bookmark cache had been updated in the meantime. They should also be available in the Dock menu. I need this amending functionality so often that I've taken to keeping my delicious page open in a browser tab so I can amend bookmarks posted through Pukka. Not ideal!

#1.1
The second, related issue is what happens when I go to amend a bookmark that is in Pukka's cache. Pukka brings up this "Duplicate URL!" confirmation which is at odds with how the delicious bookmarklet, the delicious Firefox extension and DeliciousSafari all work. It just gets in the way.

Surely the workflow would be more intuitive if this confirmation was ditched, and the previously-posted data was just displayed there in the submission form, ready to be edited? "Reset" is still available (though again I can't see why I would use that). The information in the dialog ("This URL was previously posted...") could be added to the bottom of the form.

#2
A few times I've had Pukka complain about network errors when it tries to submit a bookmark. When this happens, each time I was able to manually submit again and have it succeed first time. Perhaps you could add in a resubmission attempt with a cool-off, and only alert the user after all attempts fail. For example, try again in 5, 15, 60 seconds.

#3
Multiple posting windows. I'll generally open Pukka as I'm reading a page and insert tags as I read. If I switch tabs to something else and want to bookmark that too, the original unsaved Pukka window (and any tags and description) gets clobbered. Would it be possible to keep this open and just open a new one for the second page?

Minor stuff:

The delay when closing the Preferences window (via the red X) is a little unnerving. Perhaps due to the number of bookmarks I have.

Tag-matching should be made case-insensitive. Though I only really encounter this when typing for:friend tags, as I think all my other tags are lowercase anyway. But I'm sure this affects others.

Ok that's about enough out of me! Thanks again, I hope this is useful,

Ross