webcrate VS Reminiscence

Tool you linked is open source apparently (https://github.com/WebCrateApp/webcrate) so you should be able to self-host it on your own. They have no specific docs for it though...

Hey fellow internet users! I always got frustrated with existing bookmarking tools as they were either too clunky to use or had way too many features I didn't need. Until I decided to just build my own!

WebCrate allows you to organize links, articles and more from around the web into collections called crates. You can share the crates with anyone and since each user gets their own instance of WebCrate in their own 'personal cloud' thanks to Deta Space, you can subscribe to other users crates and view their links right from your dashboard.

Learn more at http://webcrate.app or install it directly on Deta Space (https://deta.space/discovery/webcrate)! Let me know what you think (WebCrate is OSS, so you can also contribute) and I hope you find it useful!

👨‍💻 WebCrate is also open source, report any issues you find, suggest features, or contribute directly with code on GitHub!

WebCrate helps you organize and share links, articles and more from around the web in a central place. It's open source & can be easily self-hosted thanks to your own personal cloud in Deta Space.

WebCrate is completely separate from the browser. You can learn more on the homepage: webcrate.app.

https://webcrate.app - OSS bookmarking tool to help you organize your web

- Vue / Nuxt / Plain CSS

- TypeScript / Node / Express

- Hosted in your own personal cloud thanks to Deta Space (https://deta.space/discovery/webcrate)

Nuxt made the frontend super simple and fast to build, it takes care of a lot of things for you! Deta is also awesome for devs

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/