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Show HN: Shiori v1.5 – Self hosted bookmarks manager, now with archival support

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Other choices for this problem as usual at https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted#bookmarks-and....

I did not know that list, it's awesome, contains tons of things I was looking for.

Thanks!

Seems like it's more this category: https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted/blob/master/R...

I wish people differentiate various web based bookmark services from actual browser bookmark synchronizers.

After xmarks' demise it was really hard to find correct replacement due to the above. I want to use native bookmarks in my browser instantly including locator search etc.

I ended up using awesome xBrowserSync which has cross firefox/chrome extensions to sync bookmarks. I self host with excellent and compact https://github.com/ishani/xSyn server written in go. Though you could use public servers as it's client side encrypted and anonymous.

I've used Raindrop for a long time (https://raindrop.io) to store a bookmark of all articles I read, categorised in months. It's been interesting to see the variations in "slow" months and busier months. I can see that I'm desparate to read stuff when I'm bored for example.

The one thing missing in Shiori for me to replace it would be a share extension for mobile. I use several different browsers and also often read for mobile, where Raindrop can store the bookmark via the share sheet.

I was interested if others do similar things?

Yes, such a feature is a must-have for me as well

Great! How does it compare to Wallabag (https://wallabag.org/en)? Does it provide something more? Wallabag changed my life, if there are some better features, I would switch in a bliss!

Wallabag has a pretty bad user experience if I have to compare it with Shiori. Shiori is easy to install, easy to run, and automatically creates local "reader mode" and archives of the webpages as you add them. On top of that it has a full command line client and an API you can query.

Really happy to see an update to this. Shaarli is an alternative, but seems to have issues with the default Docker container.

However, I would be much happier with an ncurses-based and file-system database for a bookmark manager that uses Markdown front matter or even just a TOML file:

https://gohugo.io/content-management/front-matter/

Would be much easier to manage bookmarks and sync them in a directory-tree format. Hopefully something like this will get added eventually.

I'm envisioning something like,

  * bookmarks/
    * services/
      * google.md
      * favicons/

Has anyone spoken to you recently about orgmode :)

Yes, I'm aware of orgmode and find it helpful, but I don't think I think it only provides partial features in this instance.

Hmm what features would a git synced via -

https://github.com/simonthum/git-sync #this gives low friction commits/pull/push

Using https://github.com/rexim/org-cliplink #this gives nice looking links in your orgmode

When added to orgmode it far past what a standalone bookmarks managerey thing does.

ie - follow up to this github issue in 3 weeks with a bookmark in the TODO

Ymmv of course.

I've been doing this with directories/text files/a handful of shell functions for the last few years. It's not _great_, so I'd love if there was a better tool that supported a similar "storage backend". Being able to grep everything, sort by modtime, etc. is pretty nice.

Plugging my self hosted web based bookmark manager as well https://github.com/jonschoning/espial

I like the ingestion via bookmarklet method, as it's low user overhead; just does the job and gets out of your way.

I have 73k bookmarks on my instance, which other sass sites sometimes aren't optimized for, and can be sluggish while filtering searching etc.. (users normally have around 5k)

I can add detail for a docker build if desired, but the build from source is pretty straightforward.

also, let's be honest - the kinds of folks running self hosted software are devs and techies, and no one in the open source self hosted space is feeding their family on these tools.

In that context open source should be like a bazaar where we share ideas and compete a bit, and see what works, and learn from each other. Let a thousand flowers bloom; we aren't talking about seed rounds here.

Sir, where have you been? I've been looking for exactly this, a self-hosted pinboard clone. A look and feel like miniflux [1] - there's something timeless about it. I also appreciate the public frontend. This looks like a great project. Have you sensed a need to add postgres/mysql support or perhaps that's overkill? Any plans to implement archiving?

I would love details on a docker build for my own homelab. I don't know Haskell, but perhaps it's time to tinker with something new.

[1]: https://miniflux.app/

Thanks! I agree minimal is best.

SQLite's been excellent. Postgres wouldn't be hard to switch to in the future but I don't think I need it yet.

My initial need was met by delegating archiving to http://archive.li . Click the green checkbox next to the bookmark to access the archived page . While not a full mirror, I like having them as the permanent custodian.

I'll probably work on getting a release up that doesn't require a build from source such as docker or bits pretty soon.

here's the docker info https://github.com/jonschoning/espial-docker

I'm not sure I would call a Pocket clone a "bookmark manager".

How about a bookmarks manager that is also a git repo?

I had this for years, but recent security-changes to browsers make it not work:

https://github.com/skx/bookmarks.public

Will work if you move the bookmark data into the main script, but then it is less easy to maintain and less clear.

It should work with a native messaging extension and app. Browserpass does something similar already. We just need pass-like tool for bookmarks.

I'm maintaining my bookmarks in a git repository with Static Marks[1], which I have written.

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

I've been relying on Hacker News "upvoted submissions" and Twitter's "likes" to avoid losing interesting links forever. And also browser bookmarks, synchronized or not. Kind of low tech.

Wondering if I'm missing out by neglecting bookmark managing tools. They sure would have to integrate seamlessly with my browsing habits for them to stick.

The archival support looks cool. Right now I'm using Bookmark OS (https://bookmarkos.com) which may be hard to leave but I will check this out

That looks amazing! Seeing how you singled out Pocket, do you offer a compatible API? That would get me to switch, as I could continue using my tools