I have a LOT of bookmarks - what can I use?
I have a LOT of bookmarks - what can I use?
I want to be able to manage and sort them. I use firefox, so both tags and folders are okay. manually exporting groups of them to like documents related to the topic I was researching (and then removing the bookmark) would also be okay. Self-hosted solutions are also welcome.
Very successful post, thank you everyone for sharing your bookmark-related tools.
I've started to use Raindrop, seems to work well and you can tag each bookmark and later search by tag.
I'm gonna try raindrop, it seems focused on this first organization step and will help me get this all organized and put out the fire.
The free version is really full featured. Premium has some really cool features as well but free is not limited in any way.
This is the way.
Honset question: How many of these bookmarks do you use regularly? Can you trim them down to a much more manageable number of bookmarks?
I periodically go through my bookmarks and purge ones I haven't accessed in a while because they're not actually serving any purpose.
Yes certainly, and I think I'm gonna need a better UI than what firefox offers in order to do it. I'm real quick and messy about saving, so a lot is gonna get deleted for sure.
I don't know if you're into switching to a whole new browser, but I use qutebrowser. I've become extremely fond of a "no organization" approach to bookmarks. When I save a bookmark, it goes into an unorganized bank. The key is you use search terms.
For instance, I type "github" and it comes up with any bookmarks with the word "github" in either the URL address or the title of the saved web page. It's way, way faster than traversing folder structures.
Linkding
I’m quite happy with Linkding. Migrated from Pinboard to it about 2 years ago. I have over 18k bookmarks in it and it doesn’t break a sweat. Can recommend!
This seems really good for the future when I wanna keep it organized and not make such a mess again
I don't even sort them in folders anymore, just make sure I add tags to them when saving, then use search
Could you sign in with Firefox and manage across multiple devices?
Yes. What I mean to say is they are unorganized, I need to like go through them and put them in better folders or tags.
https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag this is more like a self-hosted pocket.
I use Nextcloud bookmarks with Floccus. Floccus can be installed as an add-on in Firefox and as an app on Android. It retains the folder structures of bookmarks.
Floccus seems like its good for merging and then syncing bookmarks centrally, which I'm gonna need in the future when the organizing is done.
What functionality are you looking for that goes beyond opening the bookmark manager and, you know, sorting them into folders?
If it’s all articles and documents I’d suggest zotero
Wow this is an absolute powerhouse of a tool, beyond what I couod even imagine.
Yeah I've used it for years and it's incredibly useful! I use the citation tool on it a lot and then I bought papership on my iPad to read the articles away from my computer
I just use Bitwarden.
In the desktop app, I created a new folder called 'Bookmarks', then for subfolders I click the '+' icon next to 'folders' then enter 'Bookmarks/Whatever' and hey presto, I have a new subfolder called 'Whatever' under the 'Bookmarks' folder. I then add tags in the 'notes' section of each individual entry for easy searching.
Benefits: free, open source, private, encrypted, syncs between devices automatically.
404 Bookmarks is handy too, its crazy how many sites disappear
Like this? https://github.com/ghodawalaaman/bookmarks
Don't forget to make the repo private!
Oh!!!! Yes yes yes. How simple, lol.
Probably not what you're after, but there's a new Fediverse bookmarking tool called Postmarks
Okay this is really really fucking cool and I wanna try it out. It's... tangentially related to the issue. Thanks for sharing it anyway!!
@Franzia for a minimal cli-interface: https://github.com/jarun/buku
Oh this is amazing. Very very cool.
@Franzia Everything jarun has done there is worth a look
I save some links in org mode, if it's not something i frequently use then what is the point in keeping it in the browser?
What i like about org mode is that it keeps things in a plain text file, i also have emacs scripting that helps a little.
I like Shaarli
Oh wow I like Shaarli, too. I really like that it has this tag cloud feature.
xbrowsersync ftw
Bookmarks Organizer is quite cool for just cleaning up broken bookmarks, duplicates etc..
So op what did u end up using? I'm using xbroswersync ❤️
Probably stupid but my brain says use excel or a Google sheet and then you can sort and do tags however you want
I've been liking Shiori.
I LOVE that this offers offline archiving. That's something I really want on occasion and I don't know how to do.