Servas VS linkding

Servas

linkding, LinkAce, and Servas are all capable self-hosted bookmark managers.

But the win combo to me is Flame forwarding to linkding's tags .. a bookmark linking to linkding's tag .. MAGIC .. Custom search providers with Searxng .. configure like this "http://192.168.13.12:8881/?q=" .. OBVIOUSLY change the example IP with your searxng IP ..

Some others I looked at: https://github.com/Kovah/LinkAce/ (PWA) https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding https://github.com/ndom91/briefkasten (PWA) https://github.com/Daniel31x13/link-warden (PDF)

I've been on a quest to tame the bookmark monster. I have bookmarks (collectively over 10k probably) all spread around in different devices, different browsers on different computers, and event in text messages I sent to myself, via whatsapp/sms, over a period spanning 6-7 years.

While I'm not close done curating (the dead/expired/out-of-date links)... I needed to collect it all in one central place, and [linkding](https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding) is fitting the bill quite nicely. I'm using the tags and description field to annonate and sort the mess of bookmarks. It has a simple to use rest API, uses SQLite, and you can import/export bookmarks using the Netscape bookmarks html format. Best of all, it's OSS you can self-host on a RaspberryPi or even for free on say fly.io.

i've had linkding on my list of things to install for ages, and finally got around to it this week. so far, it's great.

While Briefkasten looks good, consider evaluating Linkding as well before investing your time and efforts. You can check Pinboard as well if you're ok paying (a little).

NC Bookmarks was really great once I set up the auto-screenshot for each bookmark. But ultimately, the sluggish UI and folder navigation was a bit annoying. I gave linkding a try and really liked the snappy, responsive UI and the very quick/efficient tag based filtering. I do miss the gallery view with website screenshots that NC Bookmarks offer, but having a lean and snappy UI is more important I think. Generally it's a bit of an afterthough, though, I don't use my long term bookmark storage frequently anyway.

I've been a pinboard user for ~6 years and I won't be renewing my subscription.

After a few years of using it I signed up for an archival account. My credit card was charged, but I wasn't able to archive any page; the option to do so was never there. I emailed support (I guess it goes directly to Maciej) and NEVER got an answer, despite being a paid customer and following up several times. I ended up having to do a charge-back on my credit card. Very unprofessional.

On the flip side, that made me look into self hosting and now I happily run a linkding [1] instance on my NAS. I never really cared about the social aspect of it.

[1] https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding

I have been using several apps/services similar to Raindrop for the past ~10 years or so. Started with Delicious (defunct now, at least I get a browser error trying to reach it) moved on to https://pinboard.in/ and eventually tried selfhosted apps like https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli and https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding.

As an alternative to Floccus, you can check https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding (great if you dont want a nextcloud instance just for bookmarks), they have firefox plugin as well.