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July 2016

Introducing Basket v2.5 for Android

This Update, it is all about you and your voice that we heard. We are glad that you  kept your faith in us and sent us your kind suggestions which helped us to shape a more polished product for you. In this version, we kept our focus on your requests and suggestions.

1. Dark Theme: 

The Most asked feature till date. Without any doubt, it is a must have for a nice  reading app like Basket and now you can enjoy eye soothing reading experience at night.

2. Full control in Offline: 

Now add items from other apps, change labels, add categories, add notes and delete an item after reading if required  while offline. Once you are online we will sync your changes across all devices.

Keep reading

Jul 1, 2016
#new basket #basket for android #Basket read later app #dark theme #messages #offline read #add note

January 2016

How to organize your college life with Basket

When you’re in college, staying productive is pretty much the most important thing. You have to keep up with your courses and exams beside making new friends, adventure, working on your hobbies, parties…list goes on.

It becomes hard to properly manage contents you come across internet while working on a project or gathering articles for your next lecture or presentation. Sometimes you also need to save your inspirations related to your hobby or articles on new coding techniques you are learning.

Basket helps you to quickly save and organize stories you find interesting on web. Put articles, videos and any kind of useful links in Basket and access from devices you use daily.

Keep reading

Jan 24, 2016
#college #education #basket #productivity #reading #hobbies #organised #bookmaking #bookmark
A new button for your twitter. Build for persons who care about #productivity

We are running a campaign on social media about the utility of twitter buttons.
So if you have been here from twitter then you must be wondering what does this button do. Actually twitter doesn’t give this button by default.

But installing this chrome extension will add this to your news feed and every twitter profiles you visit. When a tweet gets your attention or somehow
it seems important for you to keep somewhere simply click this button.  

Keep reading

Jan 18, 2016
Introducing Basket for Android

We were getting requests from you to have your Basket in Android and guess it is here. With Read later and lot more facility Basket is now available for your Android. 

Let’s Get it from Google Play and see how you can make more out of your Basket.

Keep reading

Jan 6, 2016
#tech #technology #productivity #bookmark #read #android #android apps #basket #note
Introducing new Basket for Chrome

For past few  months we were  working hard to improve your productivity with Basket and we wanted to bring it to Google Chrome which you use daily to browse internet.  

We started working on Basket for Chrome keeping in mind, that while you are researching over web then you must access your Basket as fast as you can and with all the right elements to keep things organized from any opened tab.

Here is what we prepared for you-

Keep reading

Jan 1, 2016

May 2015

Introdcuing Note for item in Basket

Yes, you can save notes against your saved items in Basket. We think you will love this feature. 

We all know how taking notes help us a lot. While organizing an item it is best many times to keep notes associated with them.

Why you are saving it, may be you were doing some research on some tools and you thought it can be useful in certain way. You can note some changes on top of a saved recipe to do it in your own manner. You may write down ISO information of a photo you saved to use it later while taking photograph.

We made it easy to see glimpse of your notes against your favorites just by hovering the triangle box at the top right side of the bookmark block.

 If you want to edit it just click it and you are there. Get more organized down the years with your saved items. 

Feel free to send us your thoughts in the comments below or via email to [email protected] 
- Team Basket

May 21, 2015
#notes #notes against bookmarks #bookmark management #beautiful

April 2015

All New Faster and Smoother Basket is Here

We have pushed a new version of Basketapp web with better look and feel .  Always we keep working hard to bring changes which will enhance your basketing experience.  We are really excited to see you using it.

Here’s a quick overview of what’s new:

  • With new look and feel we have simplified Basket user experience to put priority on thing that matters most. We gave priority on Title of a item, so that you can find your saved items at a glance. 
  • Now filter your saved items on different type of useful ways. Filter your Articles, Videos, Embed Items, Document in one click.
  • We made room for your notes/details against a saved item. It is now easy to access just by hovering the triangle box at the top right side of the bookmark block. If you want to edit it just click it and you are there.

We hope you’ll find Basket more beautiful, a bit more intuitive and as clean and useful as always.

Let us know your take on the new Basket experience by commenting below or by mailing at: [email protected] . Happy Basketing :)

Apr 13, 2015
#basket #new basket #read later #notes against bookmarks

February 2015

How Basket can be a Photographers' Best Tool

Basket let you save links of your favorite items and organize them. Today we are going to discuss that how Basket can be a photo enthusiastic’s best tool when surfing the web world.

We came across Photography Tips, Tricks and photography locations.

We do need to save them or keep note. Basket makes it lot way easier. The question we get from many users is how to organize the links they bring into Basket effectively.

You have the option to organize by keeping them in a Category, putting Tags against them or to keep Notes against those saved items. It is remarkable how powerful Basket becomes when you find the right system that works for you.

Simplified Category Structure

It is easy to maintain your bookmarks easily with Categories. You can keep categories like : Travel Destinations, Photography Tips, Gears. And your saved items will be stacked inside a category.

By Default Categories remain in Alphabetical order. You can put symbols such as hashtags, periods, and numbers to force them into an order that works for you. Such as - #tools , .Projects

Organized with tags and color

While saving a webpage you can add tags against it to further organize the element. Like While adding ‘Travel Destinations’ category you can add further tags like: Autumn or Wildlife or northern lights.

You can further filter the elements by adding a color against it. Premium destinations a separate color or may be trekking locations a different color.

Add Notes against your saved items

It becomes more easy when you keep starting adding notes against your saved items. You can save Phone number, email or any additional information about a location in Details section against a webpage.

Here is how you can quickly add category and tags in Basket.

Ask for Your Basket here

Feb 9, 2015
#how basket #add category #easy save #top extension
90+ ways to growth hacking

In a company for a product we had to take various growth hack methods. This methods keep varying depending on Product stage, product type, Market segment. 

Here the methods are divided into the famous AARRR wise, i.e. the Pirate Metrics as stated by Dave McClure.

  • Acquisition
  • Activation
  • Retention
  • Referral
  • Revenue

Most of the growth hacks listed here are in the “Acquisition” stage.

ACQUISITION GROWTH HACKS

1. Launch on a Tuesday

Almost ALL websites see a dip in traffic on the weekend. Friday’s get lost in the weekend excitement as well. Monday’s are catch-up days for most. Tuesdays allow you to capture most of the week. 

2. SlideShare Commenting

Commenting on slideshare presentations helps you to get noticed. It works like a charm!

3. Sign-up Functionality that Stays at the Top

Use a hello bar style fixed position sign-up form.

4. Submit the App to Award Sites

Maybe your app looks great. Maybe you had a cool explainer/teaser video done. Submitting them to award sites can give you recognition, awareness, and links!

5. Use the Thank You Page

When someone does sign up to your blog, take them to a killer “Thank You” page that references the app with screenshots to highlight the benefits.

6. Wavelength by MailChimp

This handy tool lets you find similar email blasts to yours.

This could be fodder for potential customers, or you could try building partnerships this way.

7. Startup App Directories

Here is a list of over 100 startup directory websites in this blog post.

8. Pay for Triberr Influencers

If there is a little room in the budget, paying for influencers to push your app through Triberr can help.

9. Viral Content Buzz and Just Retweet

Share other content and earn credits on Viral Content Buzz and JustRetweet. Then offer those credits for others to retweet your Twitter posts.

10. Virtual Assistants

Use oDesk and hire a low-cost virtual assistant to go to the websites of your ideal customers and fill out web forms and collect/send emails.  Elance and Freelancer work as well.

Note: This is a little spammy, so make sure the messages are targeted and personalized.

11. Put “>>” at the End of Your Call-to-Action Buttons

A really great breakdown of some CTA tests can be found here.

12. Tweet Embeds of Social Proof

HubSpot put together a great walk through of this technique.

13. Require Shares for Your Best Content

If you have a piece of high quality content that has proven to be popular and frequently read, use Pay With A Tweet (or something similar) to require people to share it in order to access it.

I did this with great success on the web app directories link in #9. Because of the shares, the articles ended up getting posted to Hacker News and I received thousands of visitors.

Keep reading

Feb 3, 2015
#growth hacking #user acquisition #customer retention

January 2015

Twitter open sourced emojis available for Download

Twitter has open sourced it’s emoji set for everybody use. And it’s available for download in Github.  Here is what they wrote in their blog – Click here to see

Twitter has tied up with Iconfactory to design icons for  it’s web client.

Check their Github page for more information about using the pack.

Few days ago Google revealed their icon sets for material design

http://blog.redelegant.com/google-revealed-material-design-icon-set-available-download/

Now it’s time for Twitter to open source some pretty graphics element for everybody.

Click here to Download

You may loss this link. So better bookmark it in Basket and find anytime

Jan 27, 2015
Top 10 tips to write amazing blogs like a pro

Today we are going to discuss on how to write great blogs like a pro. We discussed some points maintaining which can give you loyal readers. You may already follow some, or may not, have a look to ensure you don’t miss a single one and can connect better with your audiences.

1. Write for People:

Who are reading your article? That is one of the main thing you need to understand. Stuffing keywords is for search engine and you cannot write for search engines. So write for people and they will be happy to share and will come to you again.

2. Make articles concise:

People don’t like to read long articles unless it delivers value continuously and the writing is really good.

Keep reading

Jan 27, 2015
#blogging #blogging tips #amazing content
Where to submit your startup to gain users

As we all know only making a product is not everything, you need to market it well. In today’s tech savvy world most of the users comes from online. Even if your product is not online commodity still people refers to products or services now over internet. So it is always a best practice to submit your startup on some startup directories listed below.

Startup Directories

http://www.crunchbase.com/

https://www.angel.co/

http://www.betali.st/

http://www.startupli.st/

Keep reading

Jan 27, 2015
#startup submission #startup listing #betalist
How Really Today’s IT StartUps Are Attracting Users And Here Is What We Found

Each and everyday there lots of company is formed in Valley and also dies they say. Today not only Valley but in many corner of the world the IT companies are getting formed and also many non-IT startups also using internet in heave manner to reach their possible customers. Each and every companies are taking some ways to grab there customers or compelling them in innovative ways to reach out to the more uers.

As we all know the words of mouth is more powerful so people rely on them. Now if we look into how others startups are gathering beta users and also what things you should keep in your mind to get users specially Beta users, you will go amazed.

# A Viral Homepage

At any condition a Viral homepage you always need. Now you can say “Isn’t a home page is required, what is Viral homepage?”, but the thing is what makes a homepage viral is how attractive and informative and offcourse SIMPLE you can make your Homepage. A good homepage prompts a visitor to to actually sign up in your website or subscribe in it.

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# Submit Your Startup for Listing

Once you are ready to accept users or even if you already started it is Good to have a look at these checklist to ensure you already enlisted in these areas.

Keep reading

Jan 27, 2015
#beta users #early adopter #userbase
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