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There are so many out there, a few that I came across include:

Having a giant comparison table for this might be nice

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I use the bookmark manager in Firefox, which I can search through.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Similar here. As I don’t need multi-user support, I don’t bother with self-hosting some tool.

Bookmarks go to Safari where they’re synced between all my Apple devices and pop up automatically in the address bar.

And long-term bookmarks (news articles, references, etc.) go into Anybox which keeps an offline copy of the website so I can still read it in 10-20 years.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I've been using Raindrop for about five years. The solo dev really impressed me with his responsiveness to user feedback, so I started paying for premium ($30/yr) even though I don't really need the extra features.

I've used the mobile app, Firefox extension, desktop app (Linux and Windows), and the web app. All have worked flawlessly and have grown more feature rich without ruining the user experience.

The features I use the most are:

  • Endlessly nestable folders that I can give my own icons to make them significantly easier to navigate around
  • Public collections so I can save my favorite GIFs and memes on a public page I can refer back to and share
  • Tagging, descriptions, and notes so I can save a lot of context for each bookmark and why I saved it
  • The built in preview for the mobile app feels buttery smooth, so I seldom open tabs in my mobile browser when I'm visiting my bookmarks
  • The main premium features I actually use are the broken link detector to find links that no longer exist and the permanent copies of those pages

I haven't had a chance to use the REST API, but it appears to be documented quite well.

Overall I've had such a pleasant experience that I've never looked at any other option.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

+1 for Raindrop, that app is amazing, I keep watching for a self-hosted version/alternative that is as good and they are getting closer. The killer feature for me is being able to highlight stuff and then when you visit the site again you see what you have highlighted (in addition to saving them elsewhere). I also pay for premium because it’s great, I don’t use a ton of the pro features either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It really is super good

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Does Floccus count? It syncs via caldev into the native bookmarks.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Linkding which is like pinboard but self hosted. Just because it’s simple. I could do with just using browser sync but hey, I’ve got a server running so I might as well host it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I love linkding, couldn't live without it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Linkding is great ! I love it ! With the new local copy as html file thats a banger !!

Except one thing I hate about it... It can get really messy quickly If you don't overthink your tags... This can get time consuming in the long run !

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Linkwarden. Because it has a good design, tags, is selfhostable, has some nice integrations (browser-plugin, PWA) and saves backups of the bookmark in PDF.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Linkwarden maintainer here, thanks for the shoutout and stay tuned for exciting updates as we have lots of new features lined up for the next release :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I've been using Omnivore, with Obsidian plugin to have local copies of the pages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Tell meore about the obsidian plugin, dusbt know of it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Basically you can mirror the instapapered versions of your saved pages as markdown files in your obsidian vault. You can customize the whole thing basically so you can put it wherever and have it tie in to your PKM system however you want. I've got mine organized in weekly folders with a dataview block in my daily note showing the articles I've saved that day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm doing exactly the same 😁😁

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Thats what really kicked me into using obsidian as much as I do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I migrated all my Firefox bookmarks to a self-hosted Linkding instance. https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding/ Lightweight and once you get a tagging methodology in place its super useful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hey :) would you kindly share your tagging methodology? It's the second time I nuke my linkding docker istance, because everytime it gets so messy that I lose sight of my bookmarks ://

Thank you 👐

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I don't really have a "methodology" per se, I really just focus my tags on the terms I would use if I were to search online for the same thing, or even as a category to keep bookmarks for a specific topic organized. As an example, for all the web resources I may use when playing Star Citizen, I tag those web sites with #starcitizen, for sites that may have given me guidance on doing something on the linux cli, I tag it #linuxcli. I also really don't obsess over the "cleanliness" of the tags and such, but instead just use Linkding as a database that I can search. I'm not sure if this helps, but hopefully it does!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I really like Readeck, it is very polished and the fact that it copies links content is very useful when saving Medium blog posts (and generally to make sure that I don't lose the content if the linked page is ever removed)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Oh, nice. Saving the link's content is exactly the feature I've been looking for.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Floccus is what I use for bookmarks.

Works across pretty much any browser and on Android (maybe iOS, I'm not sure). I've got it set up on my Synology NAS through webdav, and it's been reliable.

I do also use Linkwarden, but that's more to collect web pages, and not just bookmark them. The archive feature is great, since it doesn't rely on the page still being live to work.

Linkwarden and Floccus are very different, IMO.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I use the one built in Vivaldi. What's the point of an external bookmark manager?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They backup them locally. Did you ever searched for something you know existed and it's gone forever?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Browsers also keep the bookmarks locally with an option to sync. You can export/import them too if needed. Sorry, still not seeing an added value of an external bookmark manager.

Unless what you're trying to say is that it backs up the websites themselves locally then... that's at least interesting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Firefox; easy to sync, easy to access, easy to search through.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wish they would finally finish that rewrite in Rust so that it can be properly self-hosted again. The old Python2.7 version is a security nightmare.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I just use their servers, it's encrypted anyways and my bookmarks are all public websites, so other than some data on what I like to bookmark there's not much there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Selfhosted RSS reader Miniflux + Wallabag + KOReader client in KPW4 = 👍

Miniflux to get all my feeds which I can analyze manually throughout the day and send selected snippets to Wallabag for later reading either during lunch or at night using KOReader client in KPW4.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's a nice workflow :) except for KOReader, I do the same combo Miniflux + wallabage + linkding.

Wallabag + miniflux for articles to read and Linkding for important stuff (mostly github stuff).

What's cool about that workflow it can be automatically send through each other with their API.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I also installed Newsboat as an alternative to the web interface https://newsboat.org/releases/2.35/docs/newsboat.html#_miniflux

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Kindle Paperwhite 4

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Ok, I realize this is c/selfhosted, but I have a question… why not use something like the xBrowserSync extension for this?

Aside of someone could associate the data to me for my list of favorite web places, which has 100 other exposure points. Is there another use case you’re solving?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I've started using Hoarder and am enjoying it. I really like the page caching and automatic AI tagging so that I don't have to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I use linkding for bookmarks and readeck for read-it-later

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

linkding now support offline snapshot and also has a reader mode. What does readeck bring to the table?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I prefer to keep the two separate. My linkding is used to dump pages I may revisit someday or not where readeck is stuff I want to definitely revisit.

As far as features go, the big one for me is that Readeck can export to epub. I don't use it a ton, but it's nice to be able to load an article on my ereader.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

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