Shaarli VS Reminiscence

I see your pinboard and I raise one Shaarli

https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli

Hi HN! I feel that the state of this small project of mine is advanced enough to be shared here.

I created this thing because I was growing frustrated of how Shaarli (https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli) worked (but I don't remember why now, though).

Share-links is fairly simple; you add links, maybe tags and a description, and it store them on a small django website, that you can share to your friends too (I'm missing the "links" page on personal websites that made me discover a lot of cool websites).

However, it allow you some more features (favicons before links, autofetch lang & title, basic comment system, multiple users, basic search, highlight posts...) that may interest you.

I'm using an instance since 1 and half year, and it's been great to store the links I find interesting on the web! (I don't took the time to add tags & comments to my links, but I use the search feature a lot).

I hope some of you will start using this project and suggest new features :)

(sorry for my bad english, I'm writing this in a hurry before leaving the computer)

(don't worry if my own instance is down, it's selfhosted and I have a very bad upstream)

I use Shaarli for links, and I have an agent network that, among other things, throws links I want to save into a Wallabag install for archival and reference.

I'm currently using Shaarli installed on a Freeddom Box self hosted on my LAN

How does it compare to shaarli ?

So far my best option seem to be https://github.com/kanishka-linux/reminiscence(which I haven't seen in any list of these type of apps for some reason) but that received no updates in 5 years(the dev apparently has no free time to work on it in the foreseeable future) and it has a few active bugs so if I can find something more stable, it would be ideal.

For people interested in this, adjacent solutions would be

- [ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox: Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox)

- [kanishka-linux/reminiscence: Self-Hosted Bookmark And Archive Manager](https://github.com/kanishka-linux/reminiscence)

- [go-shiori/shiori: Simple bookmark manager built with Go](https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori)

- [xwmx/nb: CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.](https://github.com/xwmx/nb)

https://github.com/pawelmalak/snippet-box https://github.com/archivy/archivy https://github.com/kanishka-linux/reminiscence

I used ArchiveBox but had some version migration issues with Docker which invalid my entire archive. It was also too resource-hogging for my cheap NAS. Then I looked into Reminiscence after but way to complicated to set-up for me.

I do find another project called Reminiscence, it works quite similar to ArchiveBox so the chance of bypassing paywalls is low, but still worth a try.

I’ve seen a handful of this kind of “Google, but only for things I’ve seen before” app. I think it’s something the world needs, but there are a lot of different approaches and I don’t think anyone has quite nailed it.

Ultimately the best solutions will likely use many different cataloging strategies depending on the content, and will allow you to tag or otherwise organize important content.

Funny enough if I had such an app I could make a list of 4 or 5 apps, but right now can only find one:

https://github.com/amirgamil/apollo

I remember seeing one posted to HN that used the browser API to essentially dump all resources on every website you visit to disk.

There’s also bookmarking and archiving tools like:

https://pinboard.in/

https://unmark.it/

https://www.linkace.org/

https://archivy.github.io/

https://github.com/kanishka-linux/reminiscence

https://perkeep.org/