Raindrop.io: cross-platform, collaborative bookmark manager

raindrop.io

30 points·nateb2022··10 comments

Tangentially related: I'm in search of a lightweight self-hosted URL shortener. Tried shlink[0] but man it's a bit of a bear, requiring 5 (yes, five) separate Docker containers. Also tried kutt[1] but it appears to be abandoned.

[0] https://github.com/shlinkio/shlink

[1] https://github.com/thedevs-network/kutt

Update: I've settled on Lynx[0] for now. It's still actively being developed, deploys pretty easily with docker compose, and is lightweight.

[0] https://github.com/Lynx-Shortener/Lynx

This is what I use and like:

https://yourls.org

Happy paying customer here. A good bookmark manager is an invaluable tool; I use it in conjunction with my personal wiki as a KB tool.

Does Raindrop work offline yet? Can you read a previously-downloaded article, add highlights and annotations, then file it away – without Internet?

Doesn't appear to work offline yet, but their Pro plan has something called a Permanent Copy [1] which sounds like an archived version of a website.

(Just started using it again and asked the same question)

[1] https://help.raindrop.io/permanent-copy

No, I don't think that's possible.

Looks to also be OSS

https://github.com/raindropio

Sadly it looks like only the clients, and not the server, are open source. I’m a happy paying customer but would love a self-hosting option!

Perhaps it's possible to create open source implementation of the server side? I remember someone did something similar with Obsidian Sync

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