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Espial Alternatives
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awesome-selfhosted
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Kargo
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grocy
ERP beyond your fridge - Grocy is a web-based self-hosted groceries & household management solution for your home
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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...
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linkding
Self-hosted bookmark manager that is designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.
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AppSignal
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Wallabag
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Recipes
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linkwarden
⚡️⚡️⚡️ Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters, all in one place.
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karakeep
A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search
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archivy
Archivy is a self-hostable knowledge repository that allows you to learn and retain information in your own personal and extensible wiki.
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notes
A zero dependency shell script that makes it really simple to manage your text notes. (by nickjj)
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SaaSHub
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- Linkwarden: FOSS self-hostable bookmarking with AI-tagging and page archival
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The End Times have come for the Pinboard bookmarking service
I have been using Espial: https://github.com/jonschoning/espial
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Pinboard addict here.
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.
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Pinboard vs. Raindrop: Two bookmark apps enter
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.
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Anki is great for memorising... but learning perhaps not so much? (help)
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.
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PKM As A Solution for Browser Tab-Hoarding
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.
- Self hosted app with web clipper feature
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I closed a lot of browser tabs
you could run my self-hosted bookmarking site locally (which includes basic notes) https://github.com/jonschoning/espial
- Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
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The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer
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...
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A note from our sponsor - Kargo
akuity.io | 6 Sep 2026
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jonschoning/espial is an open source project licensed under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
Espial is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
The primary programming language of Espial is Haskell.
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