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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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I've started to use Raindrop, seems to work well and you can tag each bookmark and later search by tag.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The free version is really full featured. Premium has some really cool features as well but free is not limited in any way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This is the way.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The developer recently added support for SearXNG and some other alternatives to Google that lets you see related bookmarks when doing a search.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Can you elaborate and / or link to docs about this please ?

I can't seem to find anything relevant and I use both linkding and searxng.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Ah sorry it wasn't the actual linkding project but the browser plugin.

https://github.com/Fivefold/linkding-injector

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Looks really cool. Thank you very much for the link :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This seems really good for the future when I wanna keep it organized and not make such a mess again

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

I don't even sort them in folders anymore, just make sure I add tags to them when saving, then use search

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag this is more like a self-hosted pocket.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Could you sign in with Firefox and manage across multiple devices?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

What functionality are you looking for that goes beyond opening the bookmark manager and, you know, sorting them into folders?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If it’s all articles and documents I’d suggest zotero

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wow this is an absolute powerhouse of a tool, beyond what I couod even imagine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

404 Bookmarks is handy too, its crazy how many sites disappear

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh this is amazing. Very very cool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@Franzia Everything jarun has done there is worth a look

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

@Franzia Feel free to give feedback if you try this. After I have set up my operating system (again), I start (again) trying to get rid of things that are unnecessary and rather use tools like those of jarun. I am above all a draw between Raindrop.io and buku and how well it works to use them with neovim/Obsidian and a launcher like rofi or onagre.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Oh!!!! Yes yes yes. How simple, lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Probably not what you're after, but there's a new Fediverse bookmarking tool called Postmarks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Oh wow I like Shaarli, too. I really like that it has this tag cloud feature.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

xbrowsersync ftw

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Bookmarks Organizer is quite cool for just cleaning up broken bookmarks, duplicates etc..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

So op what did u end up using? I'm using xbroswersync ❤️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I LOVE that this offers offline archiving. That's something I really want on occasion and I don't know how to do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Probably stupid but my brain says use excel or a Google sheet and then you can sort and do tags however you want