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Every bookmark manager ever made

87 points by TenJack 7y ago

yefim 7y ago
Bookmarked!
- gketuma 7y ago
  The real question is 'Bookmarked!' using what?
samf 7y ago
Surprised not to see del.icio.us there.
- pmh 7y ago
  I see it there under "No longer active (Tag-Based)", but listed as "Delicious" instead of "del.icio.us".
  - jolmg 7y ago
    The URL they listed is delicious.com, but that doesn't load.
- superchink 7y ago
  It's there somewhere… the organization of the page is a little confusing
- deleted 7y ago
  [deleted]
- amdavidson 7y ago
  "Do not attempt to compete with Pinboard" https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious/ https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious...
hprotagonist 7y ago
pinboard, keep, pocket, insta paper, and a whole lot of stuff i’ve never even heard of. I happily pay for pinboard and don’t need or want anything else.
Kovah 7y ago
Neat! Thanks for putting my LinkAce on the list too, depite being in beta. I find it very interesting, that the "market" for bookmark manager kinda exploded in the past years, at least from my perspective. Tons of new apps were developed, all of them with their own specific feature set. And yet, finding the right solution is very hard because a) projects are sometimes barely visible or b) you have very specific needs. I find the first point is one of the biggest problems about open source projects and stuff. There are so many great projects out there but marketing is hard and/or expensive so many of these projects can only be found on page 2 of the Google results. Overviews like these are a great help, especially if they are up-to-date and cover a lot of projects. To be honest, there are some solutions out there looking really promising and if I would have found them earlier, I probably wouldn't have built LinkAce in the first place. Now it's a great side project to work on that I actively use.
butz 7y ago
Where's the one where I import my 1000 unsorted bookmarks and get a neat categorized list of bookmarks?
- toyg 7y ago
  One of the problems is that any two people likely disagree on what “categorized” means. Tags? Hierarchy? Tag hierarchy? What defines a hierarchy? Etc etc.
  - stevenicr 7y ago
    I've been thinking on this for some time. Quick sorts for my use might be by date for one, by url (base domain) for another, common found terms within urls (news, product, etc) then start looking at other tags, terms within the pages, stuff like that. But just having the quick sorts and exports on those above would make it more manageable.
- DonCopal 7y ago
  You could make a program that would fetch the content of those sites and use those libraries that create word frequency clouds to get the most common word. Then this word would be the category. An interesting weekend project idea.
cdevroe 7y ago
Happy to see my project Unmark in there. :)
mehrdadn 7y ago
Is there any that can auto-categorize bookmarks without them uploading to their online service?
dlahoda 7y ago
No p2p-distributed portable across all browsers with ability to do semantic topology tagging integrated with webarchive and some translation service with ability secure parts of subgraphs and forkshare other parts with all proper layers views of visualization - from fast tag and to publish and research. With all these rdf. Crdts, type theory of patching, fuzzy vertex merges, deduplication, collective intilligence and graph marketplace. And dozen of other things. When you, the developer, will write one for me? You do not earn on giant huge market of knowledge consumption and digestion. Until than, internet is useless place without new T B Lee and Ted Nelson. I cannot live in the world without such bookmark manager. Please save me from self destruction.
whoisjuan 7y ago
"Every bookmark manager ever made" ... not really. One that is missing which I love is http://www.gettoby.com/ http://www.gettoby.com/
irrationalactor 7y ago
Amazingly, none of these options are great. Bookmark OS comes close for me, but the ugly UI ruins the experience. Nothing is more annoying than the Russian doll experience of seeing a hacky version of macOS doubled up inside of the chrome of your actual OS. Love Raindrop in theory (design-wise they have the right idea), but I dumped it in practice due to the fact it's too bloated and buggy and runs much slower than just keeping my bookmarks on Safari. Pinboard, while being minimalist which I love, is minimalist in the wrong way. The visual hierarchy is all over the place and impossible to decipher through. Scanning down a list of bookmarks is painful. So I've largely just been using the standard bookmarks feature in safari--which is actually refreshing and awesome. Except when I do that, I can't sync bookmarks to other browsers. I use Chrome on mobile and sometimes on desktop. So back to the drawing board. Why the hell are bookmarks so hard in 2019?
- flybayer 7y ago
  Oh my goodness yes!! This is the truth. Shameless plug: I’m currently building https://AcornBookmarks.com https://AcornBookmarks.com for all the reasons you stated.
toyg 7y ago
My issue with all bookmark managers, including the one I currently use (Larder.io), is re-discoverability. I will happily bookmark this and that, but it's unlikely I'll ever actually go back to the bookmark. Every once in a while I'll go through the library when I feel like looking for random gems, but the first port of call when trying to solve a problem will always be a search engine. I wish a non-Google search engine would offer a bookmark manager that integrates into its everyday search, giving preferential treatment to previously-bookmarked material. That would be the be-all end-all of bookmark managers.
- orbital-decay 7y ago
  >I will happily bookmark this and that, but it's unlikely I'll ever actually go back to the bookmark. That might be a problem with your process, not with your tools. >I wish a non-Google search engine would offer a bookmark manager that integrates into its everyday search, giving preferential treatment to previously-bookmarked material. Most browsers already do that with local bookmarks, to a degree. (they don't search the article contents, only the bookmark tags and titles).
  - jborichevskiy 7y ago
    > Most browsers already do that with local bookmarks, to a degree. (they don't search the article contents, only the bookmark tags and titles). That’s a pretty big problem- the specific term I remember is rarely in the title or URL. Not to mention all the times I’ve returned to the same bookmark only to see the content have been deleted or the domain expired. Default bookmark managers in browsers are complete rubbish.
    - yabadabadoes 7y ago
      It seems to me like you want an offline cache. How can something local deal with searching the content of a possibly deleted page?
      - jborichevskiy 7y ago
cr0sh 7y ago
Heh - they don't have the one I created, so it's missing at least one! Don't worry, though - I'm not proud of it, it was one of my first Perl scripting efforts, and interactive web-site efforts too (perl cgi - ugh). So it's best if its never looked at again...
kevintb 7y ago
Thank you for the search-based bookmark platforms, that’s what I really need but haven’t found... a Google search engine for just my bookmarks
zorbash 7y ago
Tefter (https://tefter.io https://tefter.io) co-founder here. I’m glad we made the list! It’s under the visual-based section, but arguably meets the criteria to be in many more categories. It’s list-based and tag-based, since you may organise your bookmarks using either lists or tags. It’s also search based, since bookmarks have their contents indexed and ranked and there’s autocomplete. For read-later, we keep archives and you can mark bookmarks as “read later” to read them on the mobile app. However our favourite feature is the team collaboration. You can create organisations, install the Slack app and add bookmarks and aliases (think golinks.io type of short links). A mostly complete list of features can be found here https://github.com/tefter/tefter https://github.com/tefter/tefter. Happy to answer any questions.
- pkaye 7y ago
  How does the tag suggestion work?
  - zorbash 7y ago
    We use a combination of heuristics and integrations with the most popular websites. In most cases we'll suggest relevant tags. Give it a go and let us know if it works well for you. We're still tuning it.
    - pkaye 7y ago
      Honestly a tag suggestion feature is something I've been looking for a long time. I plan to try it out soon.
flavor8 7y ago
Well that's not true. There are two from the late 90s missing here: Blink and Bookmark Box.
AGKyle 7y ago
Missing All Bookmarks from AgileBits, which is probably fine because it isn't available and probably isn't on anyone's radar anymore :) https://web.archive.org/web/20110511105926/http://agilebits.com/products/AllBookmarks https://web.archive.org/web/20110511105926/http://agilebits.... But for posterity and to remember it, there's the old page via the way back machine. Kyle AgileBits
stevenicr 7y ago
did a ctr-f and did not find "linkstash" ( https://www.xrayz.co.uk/linkstash/ https://www.xrayz.co.uk/linkstash/ ) after some research found that one to be close in some ways to what I wanted. Found a missing feature I think it was 'deleting chunks based on urls' not supported that I wanted, I wrote the developer and never heard back via email, so I gave up on it. Kept it installed as a reminder to make something similar one day. It's been a few years and now I wonder if gmail or some similar anti-spam system didn't just blackhole the email from my custom domain and that was the issue, not a dev that doesn't answer. hmm.
ivolimmen 7y ago
A bit pretentious to say "every" as it does not include mine. It's on github. Not that mine is worth mentioning as it is a personal utility.
deleted 7y ago
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Leftium 7y ago
Here is a related project I am working on: https://johns-async-react-project.glitch.me/ https://johns-async-react-project.glitch.me/ It's instant search of my 1503 bookmarks. Just titles/tags/urls right now, but I plan to index the text on the pages. Meant to replace my current bookmark solutions (neither of which are in the list). So there is a feature to import netscape-formatted bookmark files. I currently use: - http://www.myhq.com/ http://www.myhq.com/ - https://www.bkmks.com/ https://www.bkmks.com/
darekkay 7y ago
I'd like to mention my own tool: Static Marks [1] Recently, I have introduced it at work. All project bookmarks are maintained as plain text (yaml) in the project's git repository, so they can be adjusted by anyone (with Git knowledge/access). They are deployed on every commit automatically, so all collegues can access the latest version. It is not as end-user-friendly as most tools, but it has advantages for tech-savy people (like the mentioned plain-text managing via git or similar). [1] https://darekkay.com/static-marks/ https://darekkay.com/static-marks/
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aryesh 7y ago
I'm still in the process to find the perfect one. So far I use Trello lists for my bookmarks but it lack of search and tags and various other stuff. I have boards with over 5000 links, my github has over 3000 stars, it is hard to maintain and reuse the knowledge or find stuff you know you are going to look for in the future. So I am on the works on creating my own, A Trello style boards but more suited to links and knowledge search. Far from complete but it is a start. https://pindicate.herokuapp.com/ https://pindicate.herokuapp.com/ If you wish to view a demo account: demo@test.com:123456789 Bear in mind it is hosted on heroku free plan. Let me know if anyone find this interesting I will further invest more time in it.

87 points by TenJack 7y ago

yefim 7y ago

Bookmarked!

gketuma 7y ago
The real question is 'Bookmarked!' using what?

samf 7y ago

Surprised not to see del.icio.us there.

pmh 7y ago
I see it there under "No longer active (Tag-Based)", but listed as "Delicious" instead of "del.icio.us".
- jolmg 7y ago
  The URL they listed is delicious.com, but that doesn't load.
superchink 7y ago
It's there somewhere… the organization of the page is a little confusing
deleted 7y ago
[deleted]
amdavidson 7y ago
"Do not attempt to compete with Pinboard" https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious/ https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious...

hprotagonist 7y ago

pinboard, keep, pocket, insta paper, and a whole lot of stuff i’ve never even heard of. I happily pay for pinboard and don’t need or want anything else.

Kovah 7y ago

Neat! Thanks for putting my LinkAce on the list too, depite being in beta. I find it very interesting, that the "market" for bookmark manager kinda exploded in the past years, at least from my perspective. Tons of new apps were developed, all of them with their own specific feature set. And yet, finding the right solution is very hard because a) projects are sometimes barely visible or b) you have very specific needs. I find the first point is one of the biggest problems about open source projects and stuff. There are so many great projects out there but marketing is hard and/or expensive so many of these projects can only be found on page 2 of the Google results. Overviews like these are a great help, especially if they are up-to-date and cover a lot of projects. To be honest, there are some solutions out there looking really promising and if I would have found them earlier, I probably wouldn't have built LinkAce in the first place. Now it's a great side project to work on that I actively use.

butz 7y ago

Where's the one where I import my 1000 unsorted bookmarks and get a neat categorized list of bookmarks?

toyg 7y ago
One of the problems is that any two people likely disagree on what “categorized” means. Tags? Hierarchy? Tag hierarchy? What defines a hierarchy? Etc etc.
- stevenicr 7y ago
  I've been thinking on this for some time. Quick sorts for my use might be by date for one, by url (base domain) for another, common found terms within urls (news, product, etc) then start looking at other tags, terms within the pages, stuff like that. But just having the quick sorts and exports on those above would make it more manageable.
DonCopal 7y ago
You could make a program that would fetch the content of those sites and use those libraries that create word frequency clouds to get the most common word. Then this word would be the category. An interesting weekend project idea.

cdevroe 7y ago

Happy to see my project Unmark in there. :)

mehrdadn 7y ago

Is there any that can auto-categorize bookmarks without them uploading to their online service?

dlahoda 7y ago

No p2p-distributed portable across all browsers with ability to do semantic topology tagging integrated with webarchive and some translation service with ability secure parts of subgraphs and forkshare other parts with all proper layers views of visualization - from fast tag and to publish and research. With all these rdf. Crdts, type theory of patching, fuzzy vertex merges, deduplication, collective intilligence and graph marketplace. And dozen of other things. When you, the developer, will write one for me? You do not earn on giant huge market of knowledge consumption and digestion. Until than, internet is useless place without new T B Lee and Ted Nelson. I cannot live in the world without such bookmark manager. Please save me from self destruction.

whoisjuan 7y ago

"Every bookmark manager ever made" ... not really. One that is missing which I love is http://www.gettoby.com/ http://www.gettoby.com/

irrationalactor 7y ago

Amazingly, none of these options are great. Bookmark OS comes close for me, but the ugly UI ruins the experience. Nothing is more annoying than the Russian doll experience of seeing a hacky version of macOS doubled up inside of the chrome of your actual OS. Love Raindrop in theory (design-wise they have the right idea), but I dumped it in practice due to the fact it's too bloated and buggy and runs much slower than just keeping my bookmarks on Safari. Pinboard, while being minimalist which I love, is minimalist in the wrong way. The visual hierarchy is all over the place and impossible to decipher through. Scanning down a list of bookmarks is painful. So I've largely just been using the standard bookmarks feature in safari--which is actually refreshing and awesome. Except when I do that, I can't sync bookmarks to other browsers. I use Chrome on mobile and sometimes on desktop. So back to the drawing board. Why the hell are bookmarks so hard in 2019?

flybayer 7y ago
Oh my goodness yes!! This is the truth. Shameless plug: I’m currently building https://AcornBookmarks.com https://AcornBookmarks.com for all the reasons you stated.

toyg 7y ago

My issue with all bookmark managers, including the one I currently use (Larder.io), is re-discoverability. I will happily bookmark this and that, but it's unlikely I'll ever actually go back to the bookmark. Every once in a while I'll go through the library when I feel like looking for random gems, but the first port of call when trying to solve a problem will always be a search engine. I wish a non-Google search engine would offer a bookmark manager that integrates into its everyday search, giving preferential treatment to previously-bookmarked material. That would be the be-all end-all of bookmark managers.

orbital-decay 7y ago
>I will happily bookmark this and that, but it's unlikely I'll ever actually go back to the bookmark. That might be a problem with your process, not with your tools. >I wish a non-Google search engine would offer a bookmark manager that integrates into its everyday search, giving preferential treatment to previously-bookmarked material. Most browsers already do that with local bookmarks, to a degree. (they don't search the article contents, only the bookmark tags and titles).
- jborichevskiy 7y ago
  > Most browsers already do that with local bookmarks, to a degree. (they don't search the article contents, only the bookmark tags and titles). That’s a pretty big problem- the specific term I remember is rarely in the title or URL. Not to mention all the times I’ve returned to the same bookmark only to see the content have been deleted or the domain expired. Default bookmark managers in browsers are complete rubbish.
  - yabadabadoes 7y ago
    It seems to me like you want an offline cache. How can something local deal with searching the content of a possibly deleted page?
    - jborichevskiy 7y ago

cr0sh 7y ago

Heh - they don't have the one I created, so it's missing at least one! Don't worry, though - I'm not proud of it, it was one of my first Perl scripting efforts, and interactive web-site efforts too (perl cgi - ugh). So it's best if its never looked at again...

kevintb 7y ago

Thank you for the search-based bookmark platforms, that’s what I really need but haven’t found... a Google search engine for just my bookmarks

zorbash 7y ago

Tefter (https://tefter.io https://tefter.io) co-founder here. I’m glad we made the list! It’s under the visual-based section, but arguably meets the criteria to be in many more categories. It’s list-based and tag-based, since you may organise your bookmarks using either lists or tags. It’s also search based, since bookmarks have their contents indexed and ranked and there’s autocomplete. For read-later, we keep archives and you can mark bookmarks as “read later” to read them on the mobile app. However our favourite feature is the team collaboration. You can create organisations, install the Slack app and add bookmarks and aliases (think golinks.io type of short links). A mostly complete list of features can be found here https://github.com/tefter/tefter https://github.com/tefter/tefter. Happy to answer any questions.

pkaye 7y ago
How does the tag suggestion work?
- zorbash 7y ago
  We use a combination of heuristics and integrations with the most popular websites. In most cases we'll suggest relevant tags. Give it a go and let us know if it works well for you. We're still tuning it.
  - pkaye 7y ago
    Honestly a tag suggestion feature is something I've been looking for a long time. I plan to try it out soon.

flavor8 7y ago

Well that's not true. There are two from the late 90s missing here: Blink and Bookmark Box.

AGKyle 7y ago

Missing All Bookmarks from AgileBits, which is probably fine because it isn't available and probably isn't on anyone's radar anymore :) https://web.archive.org/web/20110511105926/http://agilebits.com/products/AllBookmarks https://web.archive.org/web/20110511105926/http://agilebits.... But for posterity and to remember it, there's the old page via the way back machine. Kyle AgileBits

stevenicr 7y ago

did a ctr-f and did not find "linkstash" ( https://www.xrayz.co.uk/linkstash/ https://www.xrayz.co.uk/linkstash/ ) after some research found that one to be close in some ways to what I wanted. Found a missing feature I think it was 'deleting chunks based on urls' not supported that I wanted, I wrote the developer and never heard back via email, so I gave up on it. Kept it installed as a reminder to make something similar one day. It's been a few years and now I wonder if gmail or some similar anti-spam system didn't just blackhole the email from my custom domain and that was the issue, not a dev that doesn't answer. hmm.

ivolimmen 7y ago

A bit pretentious to say "every" as it does not include mine. It's on github. Not that mine is worth mentioning as it is a personal utility.

deleted 7y ago

[deleted]

Leftium 7y ago

Here is a related project I am working on: https://johns-async-react-project.glitch.me/ https://johns-async-react-project.glitch.me/ It's instant search of my 1503 bookmarks. Just titles/tags/urls right now, but I plan to index the text on the pages. Meant to replace my current bookmark solutions (neither of which are in the list). So there is a feature to import netscape-formatted bookmark files. I currently use: - http://www.myhq.com/ http://www.myhq.com/ - https://www.bkmks.com/ https://www.bkmks.com/

darekkay 7y ago

I'd like to mention my own tool: Static Marks [1] Recently, I have introduced it at work. All project bookmarks are maintained as plain text (yaml) in the project's git repository, so they can be adjusted by anyone (with Git knowledge/access). They are deployed on every commit automatically, so all collegues can access the latest version. It is not as end-user-friendly as most tools, but it has advantages for tech-savy people (like the mentioned plain-text managing via git or similar). [1] https://darekkay.com/static-marks/ https://darekkay.com/static-marks/

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aryesh 7y ago

I'm still in the process to find the perfect one. So far I use Trello lists for my bookmarks but it lack of search and tags and various other stuff. I have boards with over 5000 links, my github has over 3000 stars, it is hard to maintain and reuse the knowledge or find stuff you know you are going to look for in the future. So I am on the works on creating my own, A Trello style boards but more suited to links and knowledge search. Far from complete but it is a start. https://pindicate.herokuapp.com/ https://pindicate.herokuapp.com/ If you wish to view a demo account: demo@test.com:123456789 Bear in mind it is hosted on heroku free plan. Let me know if anyone find this interesting I will further invest more time in it.