Raindrop.io and Plexii both fix the same annoyance: you found something useful on the web and do not want to lose it. They answer differently.
Raindrop is a library. Per its help centre, the free plan has unlimited bookmarks, collections, tags and devices, collections can be nested, and a bookmark lives in one collection. A Save tabs command files all your open tabs into a collection, tagged with the date. The paid plan adds full-text search, a web archive, reminders, annotations, backups and an AI assistant. Raindrop says archived copies become inaccessible, and are deleted after about a month, if the subscription lapses, so keep an export.
Plexii is a workspace. A desk holds the pages one task needs next to the document, table and notes they feed. Pages sit in a browser widget that remembers where it was, so the desk reopens where you left off. Pages still need an internet connection, and Plexii's help does not describe keeping a copy of a page.
A workable split:
- Raindrop for keeping: anything you might want in six months, tagged by topic.
- A Plexii desk for doing: pull the three or four pages a task needs onto its desk, with a note on what each is for.
- At the end, record the decision and save any source worth keeping back into Raindrop.
The full guide has a table of both tools and a five-minute test you can run on one live task.
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Plexii is free to download for Mac and Windows: https://plexiidesk.com/download
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