iliana
@iliana

what i'm looking for: basically pinboard, but ideally a self-hosted system. a tool for creating a database of bookmarks with tags or some other search system so that i can potentially find them later. if a hosted service, has export.

primary use case: honestly, keeping track of cohost posts i like so i can find them later; but i assume that me regularly using a tool for this might become habitual and cause me to bookmark other things i want to keep track of. (for reference, my main form of "remembering where things are" is "typing words into firefox and hoping it's in my history")

things i don't care about: page archival should not be the primary goal; i have a separate setup for making WARCs of shit i care about. also if it's only part of some ginormous system like owncloud i don't wanna touch it

important: please do not google things for me and tell me what you found; i want testimonials, not research


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also very interested in an answer to this, I've got a notion subscription and while it's extremely useful as a generic notepad so I theoretically could use it for this, I wonder if a dedicated bookmarking service would deliver any additional value

I use a private Discord server for this, where I have different channels for different topics, but it's not self-hosted. That + Zotero + Firefox bookmarks managed to get me from having ~1000 tabs open to 16, but it might not be ideal! (I got this idea from @kiana)

I enjoy GoodLinks for its relative simplicity and have used Keep It when I wanted something heavier in the past. Both are exclusive to Apple platforms unfortunately, but both also support Shortcuts, so there are ways to enter and retrieve things from other places with sufficient motivation.

honestly for the past little while this has stopped being an issue for us as a side-effect of something different, which is that we've been trying to turn several of our long-running trains of thought into writing projects. so links just get pasted into our notes for the appropriate project, and figuring out how to organize them is something we naturally find ourselves circling back to as part of working on that project.

this is unlikely to work for you but it's what we've got.

i used to use raindrop as well. i've since moved to readwise reader for like articles and stuff, and i dump miscellaneous links to obsidian, since it gives me the closure to close the tab, but it's still there if i really want to search it later.

Raindrop is also my pick; it definitely makes me bookmark things more and also as such gives a good “break glass” / tab bankruptcy option

I have more mixed luck on then actually returning to many of the bookmarks, but at least they are there 😅

Additional abstract pro: open source frontends https://github.com/raindropio/app

Maybe abstract con: I was gonna say, dev and servers are in Russia which wouldn’t be exactly my first pick, but I see the GitHub location has been updated(?) to Kazakhstan, so perhaps no longer the case (orrr I misremember).

More read it later than bookmarks, but I also don’t hate Matter, and liked Upnext well enough for the duration of the trial, might revisit

Also, for your specific stated use case Notado might be what you want (but you might want to poke https://hachyderm.io/@LGUG2Z about adding some sort of cohost integration of some kind… maybe)