Hacker News Reader

Comment by anthropodie | Hacker News Reader

Do yourself a favor and use one of the below tools instead of browser based bookmarks

1. LinkAce: Save your bookmarks and organize them with tags and lists. The bookmarked page is gone? No worries. LinkAce automatically links it to archive.org page.

2. Shiori: Save bookmarks, archive them or use it like pocket. Like LinkAce you can organize your bookmarks using tags

[1]: https://www.linkace.org/ | https://github.com/Kovah/LinkAce/

[2]: https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori

View on HN

My browser based bookmarks are a far denser and more accessible collection of links than any of those links can manage, in presentation mode.

I maintain bookmarks across 3 browsers and account profiles and groom them regularly and archive them myself and wish browsers took bookmarks/favorites more seriously.

Or Pinboard - https://pinboard.in/ - which can monitor your Twitter account, even locked accounts, and automatically bookmark and archive links there, and you can search the full text for archived links.

Using browser-based bookmarks would definitely be a step backwards for me. My phone, my tablet, my laptop and the multiple browsers I use there - it's much easier to know where I filed something this way, and find it again. Also, I prefer tags to folders.

In somewhat relatable thread some people reported problems which pinboard faced recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30424671 with dead support and unstable archiving

> 2. Shiori: Save bookmarks, archive them or use it like pocket.

Thanks for the rec. I've been looking for a pocket alternative. Just a simple bookmark manager that can archive articles. Ideally a desktop app and work offline too. None of that self-hosting stuffs.

I will give Shiori a try.

edit: Never mind. This is not what I'm looking for.

The reason behind self hosting these services is you want these service to be available across all your devices. With desktop app all the bookmarks will be available only on your workstation not on mobile.

Ideally these should be hosted on Raspberry Pi which can run 24x7 and does not consume much power. But I would not recommend doing this setup unless you are hosting bunch of other services.

I thought the Shiori project was dead. Great to see it's got a new maintainer. A new release also dropped after 2 years. [1]: https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori/discussions/376

I just don't understand these tools. If someone stores bookmarks - why not put them into a text file - one line per bookmark, and then search with grep.

Or put them in the browser bookmark store and then search using the built-in search?

I feel silly that I never thought of this as a solution. My life may change starting today!

But you are loosing title of the webpage if you are bookmarking this way which is quite important while searching.

You can put titles, comments, and tags on the same line if you want.

That's pretty clearly an extra step that people want to avoid by using tools like these.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com