Pinboard vs. Raindrop: Two bookmark apps enter

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  • ArchiveBox

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

    ArchiveBox might be a better fit for your use case.

    https://archivebox.io/

  • kramb

    Simple bookmark manager

    https://github.com/altilunium/kramb

    Focuses on local storage, easily syncs between my devices (via centralized server that i have to pay each month though)...

    Or, you could just simply self-host the sync server by yourself.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  • linkding

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

    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

  • 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.

    Should be doable with nb - https://github.com/xwmx/nb#-bookmarks

    Each bookmark is saved as a markdown file so syncing is straightforward. I mainly use it with the command line interface but you can also use a UI running in the browser.

  • Espial

    Espial is an open-source, web-based bookmarking server.

    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.

  • awesome-selfhosted

    A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers

  • fragments

    Organise your bookmarks into boards (by squallstar)

    I always found bookmark apps to be missing the features I needed to I ended building my own open-source bookmarking tool back in 2015 and I still use it to this day. I'll share it here in case it's helpful to any of you.

    Here's where it's being hosted as a service: https://fragments.me/fragments

    Here's the open-source code: https://github.com/squallstar/fragments

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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