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Looking for Self-hosted Bookmark Manager (lemmy.world)

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Does anyone know if there is a self-hosted bookmark manager that has integration with Firefox/Chrome/Brave where I can import all my bookmarks?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
MQTT	Message Queue Telemetry Transport point-to-point networking
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
PiHole	Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)

3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

My first good bot of the fediverse goes to you, you good bot.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I use floccus. Works with nextcloud or any webdav, even gdrive.

https://floccus.org/

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

I also use floccus. It‘s good for what it is, but I‘m still searching for something that would allow me to easily reorganize this huge pile of bookmarks I‘ve accumulated.

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

I have done it this way with Vivaldi:

Sync to Browser

Reorganize in the Browser via drag n drop

Sync back again

It took about 1,5 hours but you only do this once.

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

Ah, nice, thank you for sharing. Does Vivaldi offer some good sorting capabilities?

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

It offers a good bookmark manager. Easy to create folders and subfolders, drag n drop works smoothly and I think Vivaldi is the best chromebased briwser. I use it on all devices, Windows, Fedora and Android 😊

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you, I will give it a try.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is the way

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Linkding. Imported all bookmarks from browser and added tags. Helps me find stuff later. Search is also good. My bookmark bar in the browser is now only for quickly accessing the stuff I need daily.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Linkding also has Firefox and Chrome extensions for bookmarking and injector for search engines (Google, DDG, SearX/SearXNG, Brave).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Don't mind me, just testing acronym detection.

NAS, PiHole, MQTT

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have started doing something completely different than using bookmarks. I set up yacy on a personal, internal server at my home, which I can access from all my devices, since they are always on my wireguard vpn.

Yacy is actually a distributed search engine, but I run in 'Robinson mode' as a private peer, to keep it isolated, as I just want a personal search of only sites I have indexed.

Anytime I come across something of interest, I index it with yacy, using a a depth of 0 (since I only want to index that one page, not the whole site). This way, I can just go to my search site, and search for something, and anything related that I've indexed before pops up. I found this works way better than trying to manage bookmarks with descriptions and tags.

Also, yacy will keep a cache of the content which is great if the site ever goes offline or changes.

If I need to browse, I can go use yacy's admin tools to see all the urls I have indexed.

I have been using this for several months and I am using this way more than I ever used my bookmarks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is a pretty solid approach and definitely out of the box thinking. Going to give this a shot for sure, I especially like that your approach is searchable and cached like you said.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I just selfhost the Firefox sync which then synchronizes my Firefox bookmarks to all the laptops, desktops and mobile phones.

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

Didn't knew that was possible... seems not easy to set-up :/ is also an old article, you sure this still works?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah yeah the article is quite old and it got much easier to set up, see: https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run-sync-1.5.html

The important thing is to understand that there is Firefox Account and Firefox Sync. You can self host both of them, self hosting Sync is very easy, Accounts is very difficult. Sync depends on Accounts. But you can use Mozillas Accounts and your own Sync. This way you use their server to log into your own sync server. Your passwords, history, etc. are only stored on your own Sync server.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you :) Will look at it, right now I'm happy with selfhosted linkding, but I really miss the native bookmarking way of firefox (tags, folder, subfolders, keywords.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah the folder thing definitely keeps me there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Woah thats so cool. I didn't know this was a thing at all! Thanks for sharing. :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Am I wrong in assuming that this only works with Firefox and isn't available to sync other browsers?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No, you're correct, this only works with Firefox. And this is one of the reasons why I'm staying on Firefox both on mobile and browser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does it also sync other data? Like saved passwords, history, settings, etc.?

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

Yes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn. It might be the best solution I've seen yet. I don't think the NextCloud app does all that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is not part of Nextcloud as far as I know, just the sync server written in python.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use Linkding, which even as an android workaround for mobile. I have no idea if it works with brave, but does work with Firefox/chrome !

It's pretty cool piece of software, but something it's missing is a way to groupe tags together or have some folder structure.

If you don't have a tag structure beforehead, your tags can quickly get messy :/!

Linkding

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

What do you mean by a workaround for Android? Do you mean to get the extension working on mobile Firefox or something else?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, because there isn't a native linkding app for android there is a way to make it work in firefox, with HTTP shortcut

See here

It works flawlessly and never had any issue with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

it works with brave

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

If you already have a Nextcloud, theirs is solid

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I am using linkding for my bookmarks. Used LinkAce before. linkding is perfect for my minimalistic taste. I just miss having an app for it. There's an app for linkding for iOS, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm also looking into this a bit as I'm ditching Nextcloud and need a more modulare approach to managing the three things i care about: calendards, files and bookmarks. Sorted calendars with Radicale (superb) and files with Syncthing but now looking at the bookmarks. This (https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab=readme-ov-file#bookmarks-and-link-sharing) has several solutions proposed. lingding and linkwarden seem to be good and reasonable active on Github. Anyone compared these?

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

I have tested both lingding and linkwarden. Lingding was easy to use and did the basics in bookmark management. Though I settled on linkwarden for its saving of webpages in different formats with folder and subfolder organisation in the UI.

Both are good options, but linkwarden seem to be more power user focused.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

xBrowserSync. Has browser addons and phone apps. You can use public instances, or self-host.

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