Do you use a bookmark manager?

Here is what I would want from a bookmark manager:

- Independent of the browser.

- Local (no cloud).

- When adding a new bookmark, a readable, entirely offline copy is stored (something like the SingleFile plugin). This is used as a fallback in case of link rot.

- Good tagging and organization tools.

Does anything like this exist?

I've been on a quest to tame the bookmark monster. I have bookmarks (collectively over 10k probably) all spread around in different devices, different browsers on different computers, and event in text messages I sent to myself, via whatsapp/sms, over a period spanning 6-7 years.

While I'm not close done curating (the dead/expired/out-of-date links)... I needed to collect it all in one central place, and [linkding](https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding) is fitting the bill quite nicely. I'm using the tags and description field to annonate and sort the mess of bookmarks. It has a simple to use rest API, uses SQLite, and you can import/export bookmarks using the Netscape bookmarks html format. Best of all, it's OSS you can self-host on a RaspberryPi or even for free on say fly.io.

https://raindrop.io/

I started using Zotero to store papers I found for my PhD research, and now I use it as my bookmark manager as well. I make extensive use of tags, and you can add notes, relate items, store snapshots, ...

Pocket: https://getpocket.com/

Content discovery based on topics of interest works really well too.

I use a Chrome's builtin bookmarks manager and sync across devices (iPhone, iPad). But it's sync is problematic, and always messes the order or names of bookmarks when syncing on a new laptop. I also lost bookmarks couple of times.

Is there a bookmark manager which integrates with Obsidian? I think it could be a great combination.

I wrote https://github.com/tardisx/linkwallet

Main itches I was trying to scratch:

* full text search

* no external dependencies

* optimised for self-hosting; simple to deploy and uses minimal resources

I've created StaticMarks [1], an open-source bookmarking tool. My browser bookmarks are my inbox; anything I want to keep long-term goes into StaticMarks. Notes are supported as well.

[1] https://darekkay.com/static-marks/

I have some very specific requirements for a bookmark manager which nothing has yet satiated, so I may "just" implement these myself:

- Graph based bookmark views where I can hover over nodes to see bookmarks of the same origin.

- Nodes may be clustered/coloured based on folder, however this might be a step too far/not specifically compatible once there are >n nodes.

- The graph would have some of directionality: - I have some ideas here, however this would require iteration to see what works and what doesn't. A quote from Jobs here seems poignant to me, someone fueled not be designing around users, but solving what is technically complex; "Start with the Customer Experience, then work back to the technology".

  - Outgress nodes (A -> B -> C) would show a relationship that these were all bookmarked in the same search journey[1], clicking on any node would bring up a time seried vertically linear panel displaying the nodes.

  - I'm sure (read: hope) there's some useful way to also label ingress and neighbour nodes in some meaningful way, I just haven't yet thought enough about it.

- Finally full text search over the store (probably using SingleFileZ) would be a must due to link-rot.

1: https://9to5google.com/2022/05/04/what-are-chrome-journeys/

Disclaimer: I Am Not An Expert. (I know nothing! Mostly.)

So far I'm sticking with FireFox. When I update my bookmarks, I save them to a JSON file, and then export them to HTML, which I use with my other, non-FireFox browsers.

I also have created a sort of "table of contents" system that allows me to narrow in on similar bookmarks. It's too high-maintenance, but it helps

Example, weekly news links...

02-WEEKLY (heading only)

02-01-WEEKLY (folder containing bookmarks)

02-02-WEEKLY (folder containing bookmarks)

02-03-WEEKLY (folder containing bookmarks)

02-04-WEEKLY (folder containing bookmarks)

02-05-WEEKLY (folder containing bookmarks)

Each of these sections (which are folders) has a different slant: Basic news, Fluff, Food & Health, Science News, Computing News, and so on. Some other categories I have go much deeper, and if I need to revise them it's a major pain.

If eventually I need to do something else, I'll probably adopt or create something with Emacs org-mode.

Example: (I just found this, have no idea if it's actually relevant...) "org-mode for browser bookmarks" at https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/bshrg0/orgmode_for_b..., which points to "org-linkz" at https://github.com/p-kolacz/org-linkz

There is more along these lines at https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=emacs+org+mode+browser+book...

I don't, and I wonder if using one would make the experience of bookmarking things valuable enough that I would prefer it over my current Ctrl+D and forget approach.

I think the problem is I'm too used to remembering the magic incantations used to search for something I need somewhere.

Yes. Raindrop.

RSS clients, read-later apps, and bookmark managers are all in the same category in my head. I have no idea why the companies who make the most successful app for one of them doesn't make apps for the others. It's exactly the same kind of person who needs all 3 apps.

I scarcely use bookmarks at all; I've never used a bookmark manager. Either I have the URL memorized, or it's easy to find when I want it, or it doesn't actually matter that much.

There was a brief time, back in the '90s before search engines were any good, when I had a long list of bookmarks - but there were no bookmark managers then, and I wouldn't have trusted one if there were, so I lost them all, over and over again, when moving between machines or browsers, and rapidly dropped the habit of collecting them.

I use Raindrop for personal/hobby stuff and Zotero for pieces related to my research. I used to use Pocket and Instapaper but both of them became filled with ads and popups. The performance of Raindrop on Mac is questionable at best but it remains the best service I have tried in recent years. I've heard a lot good about Matter buy my guess is that their VC funders will push them to adopt $XXX/year subscriptions soon, which is certainly something I am trying to avoid.

I can recommend nb.sh for terminal minimalists! Its both a bookmark and note taking shell script that syncs with git.

Currently using raindrop.io but it lacks keyboard shortcut support. It has everything else but a proper keyboard shortcut for various things like search, creating folders, tagging etc would seal the deal as the best bookmarking solution.

This isn't a bookmark manager, but I have migrated from bookmarks/long lived open tags to Apple Notes.

The reason is many: I can organize it easier that way, there is no issue having 50 or 100 links in a note and I can write notes around them if I want.

https://braintool.org/ works really well, saves everything in plain text, works especially well for us Emacs/org-mode freaks.

Yes.

https://pinboard.in

No, but, I'd like to try out self-hosted Wallabag: https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag

https://mymind.com

I like that I don't have to organize anything. I just chuck it in there and let the system organize it for me.

Wait, shit, I'm supposed to be worried about this? I'm still working on bookmarking tabs so I can close them out!

https://anybox.app

refind.com is pretty amazing. It's like Pocket which I used for many years, but nowadays rarely use. I somehow prefer refind.com over Pocket.

Anyone use a bookmarks manager for Twitter?

Will you ever get back to these? I don’t use

How about using:

* A spreadsheet

* A markdown file, stored in a git repository

I use a Blogger blog.

If it starts to get unwieldy, that's an indication to me that I need to clean up my bookmarks, not that I need more tools to manage them.