Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

• linkding

  73 4,965 8.9 Python

  Self-hosted bookmark manager that is designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.

Yup, I use a self hosted version of [1]

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

• copy-as-org-mode

  9 179 0.0 TypeScript

  A Firefox Add-on (WebExtension) to copy selected web page into Org-mode formatted text!

• InfluxDB

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• promnesia

  33 1,686 7.8 Python

  Another piece of your extended mind

• grasp

  18 315 0.0 JavaScript

  A reliable org-capture browser extension for Chrome/Firefox

• linkwarden

  18 5,984 9.8 TypeScript

  ⚡️⚡️⚡️Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize, and preserve webpages and articles.

  

I’m working on one which auto captures them as a screenshot and PDF:

https://github.com/Daniel31x13/link-warden

• Yacy

  115 3,244 8.7 Java

  Distributed Peer-to-Peer Web Search Engine and Intranet Search Appliance

  

I have started doing something completely different than using bookmarks. I set up yacy[1] on a personal, internal server at my home, which I can access from all my devices, since they are always on my wireguard vpn.

Yacy is actually a distributed search engine, but I run in 'Robinson mode' as a private peer, to keep it isolated, as I just want a personal search of only sites I have indexed.

Anytime I come across something of interest, I index it with yacy, using a a depth of 0 (since I only want to index that one page, not the whole site). This way, I can just go to my search site, and search for something, and anything related that I've indexed before pops up. I found this works way better than trying to manage bookmarks with descriptions and tags.

Also, yacy will keep a cache of the content which is great if the site ever goes offline or changes.

If I need to browse, I can go use yacy's admin tools to see all the urls I have indexed.

I have been using this for several months and I am using this way more than I ever used my bookmarks.

[1] https://yacy.net/

• ssh-bm

  2 3 3.2 TypeScript

  An ssh bookmarking program

• WorkOS

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• Shaarli

  40 3,275 8.3 PHP

  The personal, minimalist, super-fast, database free, bookmarking service - community repo

  

What you're looking for is Shaarli => https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli

There's a whole community of "shaarlist" in France, you can also fuse several shaarli in a "river"... Some rivers are my 2nd HckrNws when I want to read something.

• my-awesome-template

  1 3 1.7 HTML

  git-bookmarks template

  

* easy to access from the phone e.g. telegram

These are my bookmarks https://myawesome.dev and this is the template https://github.com/my-awesome/my-awesome-template

it's not perfect but it cover my needs ;-)

• alfred-my-mind

  3 468 6.1 Go

  Alfred workflow to search through my notes and bookmarks

My bookmarking service is Alfred workflow I wrote: https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/alfred-my-mind

It searches through links in my wiki: https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge

• knowledge

  29 4,742 8.3 JavaScript

  Everything I know

My bookmarking service is Alfred workflow I wrote: https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/alfred-my-mind

It searches through links in my wiki: https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge

• zotero

  254 9,135 9.9 JavaScript

  Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your research sources.

  

I use Zotero for this now. I have a bunch of sub-collections (e.g. technical, interesting, fitness, etc.) and when I see a webpage I like I use the plug-in to save to Zotero. Better than a bookmark because it also saves a snapshot of the webpage, and, I can easily cite it if I'm writing a document.

https://www.zotero.org/

• LinkAce

  48 2,418 7.9 PHP

  LinkAce is a self-hosted archive to collect links of your favorite websites.

I use self-hosted [linkace][1]. It is similar to Shaarli but has a little nicer interface.

[1]: https://www.linkace.org/

• ArchiveBox

  248 19,672 9.7 Python

  🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...

  

ArchiveBox documents how to automatically archive links from your browser history:

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Usage#Import-l...

• spyglass

  39 2,428 7.3 Rust

  A personal search engine: Create a searchable library from your personal documents, interests, and more!

  

A bit different, but I've been building something similar that runs locally: https://github.com/a5huynh/spyglass

You create some rules for topics you want to index and it'll go out and crawl them. Searching through it is a global hotkey away.

• Shiori

  58 8,685 8.3 Go

  Simple bookmark manager built with Go

  

This is the one I'm leaning towards using as well. (Though https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori was a close second.)

Linkding uses SQLite as the database, which for self-hosting is such a huge win. It doesn't do much in the way of local archiving, but the interface looks so incredibly clean.

I haven't tried this yet, but since I have "HTTP Shortcuts" (wonderful Android app) already installed I really appreciated the ability to be able to send bookmarks from my phone easily without installing anything new:

https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding/blob/ebbf0022bc44bf...

• osmosmemo

  2 372 6.2 TypeScript

  Turn GitHub into a bookmark manager

  

I use a browser extension to store bookmarks in GitHub https://github.com/osmoscraft/osmosmemo

• Toshi

  12 4,110 6.1 Rust

  A full-text search engine in rust

  

I do something similar, though I index the page myself via a little browser extension I wrote. I click a button, the content gets POSTed to a server that throws it in Toshi[1]. I hacked it together on a Saturday, and it's been pretty handy; as you describe, much more useful than any bookmarking approach I've tried before.

[1] https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi

• filum

  2 0 0.0 Python

I use Pocket quite a bit.

I've also recently cobbled together a CLI tool that lets me save discussion threads on Reddit, HN and Stack Exchange. Very much a beginner-level project but here it is in case anyone is interested:

https://github.com/PizzaMyHeart/filum

• programming-math-science

  8 1,449 9.1

  This is a list of links to different freely available learning resources about computer programming, math, and science.

For some types of bookmarks I started to use a GitHub repositories with a markdown document in them. Those are my bookmarks collected mainly through HN:

- A list of freely available articles, tutorials, book about programming, math and science: https://github.com/bobeff/programming-math-science

- A list of open source games: https://github.com/bobeff/open-source-games

• open-source-games

  9 549 7.3

  A list of open source games.

For some types of bookmarks I started to use a GitHub repositories with a markdown document in them. Those are my bookmarks collected mainly through HN:

- A list of freely available articles, tutorials, book about programming, math and science: https://github.com/bobeff/programming-math-science

- A list of open source games: https://github.com/bobeff/open-source-games

• HN-Saved-Links-Export

  1 1 1.8 Python

  Export your saved links on HN as JSON or CSV, with only a few keystrokes.

I've been using upvotes as a way to save things, and then using a script (https://github.com/anishthite/HN-Saved-Links-Export) to export them to json so I can search through them.

• pinprick

  1 10 1.1 Python

  Pinboard bookmark mailer

I use the API to send myself a daily email with a combination of random and anniversary bookmarks:

https://github.com/klenwell/pinprick

I find it a good way to keep in touch with past bookmarks and do some light maintenance.

• OneTab-Night-Mode

  48 31 10.0 CSS

  Little theme for the onetab page to make it less eye raping.

Thanks for the recommendation. This is going to change my life.

https://www.one-tab.com/

• goggles-quickstart

  22 564 2.8

  Educational material to learn about Goggles and how to create your own.

  

Not sure if you noticed this bubble up on HN earlier in the week but this might be helpful.

It's not bookmarking as much as site-marking, and then having your own search engine based on that collection.

Figured it was worth mentioning.

https://github.com/brave/goggles-quickstart/blob/main/gettin...

• bookmarks

  2 37 6.1 JavaScript

  My personal DIY bookmarks app (by blakewatson)

I’ve been a Pinboard customer since 2010 and I subscribed to the archival service several years. But archival seems to have stopped on my account. I think I emailed once but never received a reply (which I’ve heard is common). I love the philosophy of Pinboard and I also like Maciej. That said I recently decided to roll my own bookmarks tool with Wayback Machine archival capability.

https://github.com/blakewatson/bookmarks

• xBrowserSync

  6 1,443 0.0 TypeScript

  xBrowserSync browser extensions / mobile app (by xbrowsersync)

  

• cli-bookmarker

  1 1 4.3 Shell

  Discontinued A portable command line bookmarking tool that allows fuzzy search and configurable launchers.

• yacy-it

  3 13 6.2 JavaScript

  Discontinued Add browser pages to your local YACY index

I really liked this setup. The only point of friction for me was adding the links to the index via the crawler everytime. So I created a Firefox Extenstion to do it directly from the address-bar.

If someone is interested, you can download it from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yacy-it/

Limitation: It currently supports only YaCy running on localhost and unprotected. You might have to configure CORS as outlined here -> https://github.com/tecoholic/yacy-it#configuring-yacy

• YaCyIndexerGreasemonkey

  1 23 10.0 JavaScript

  Greasemonkey script to index visited websites with the YaCy P2P search engine.

I had trouble with that, I ended up using this userscript https://github.com/JeremyRand/YaCyIndexerGreasemonkey

• SaaSHub

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