Espial VS Shaarli

Tangentially, I would recommend exporting your Pinboard collection periodically to somewhere safe. The service has gotten sketchy in the last year or two. I transitioned mine to a self-hosted instance of Espial.

An alternative, one that I began using a year ago after losing confidence in Pinboard is the self-hosted Espial - https://github.com/jonschoning/espial.

The visual presentation is a near complete clone of Pinboard. It also provides a route for Pinboard import.

Link repository - I use a self-hosted instance of Espial, but again the technology is unimportant. I mention this only because one of the philosophies of the Zettelkasten is to avoid the collector's fallacy where just by saving something you think you know it. So links go here if I might want to find it again in the future but I don't have time to think about it now or take notes on it into the ZK.

Saving URL's: For the most part, I don't like existing built-in bookmarking solutions in most browsers, because they seem to treat metadata cursorily or just ignore it. I've started using Espial which is a self-hosted Pinboard knock-off that allows me to tag and comment on URL's that I save.

you could run my self-hosted bookmarking site locally (which includes basic notes) https://github.com/jonschoning/espial

I actively avoid super general code in my Haskell applications.

Here's some code to add a bookmark in an api controller:

https://github.com/jonschoning/espial/blob/master/src/Handle...

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 ?