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.<p>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. <i>That</i> would be the be-all end-all of bookmark managers.
Amazingly, none of these options are great.<p>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.<p>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.<p>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.<p>So I've largely just been using the standard bookmarks feature in safari--which is actually refreshing and awesome.<p>Except when I do that, I can't sync bookmarks to other browsers. I use Chrome on mobile and sometimes on desktop.<p>So back to the drawing board.<p>Why the hell are bookmarks so hard in 2019?
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.
Neat! Thanks for putting my LinkAce on the list too, depite being in beta.<p>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.<p>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.
"Every bookmark manager ever made" ... not really.<p>One that is missing which I love is <a href="http://www.gettoby.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gettoby.com/</a>
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.<p>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.<p><a href="https://pindicate.herokuapp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://pindicate.herokuapp.com/</a><p>If you wish to view a demo account: demo@test.com:123456789<p>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.
Tefter (<a href="https://tefter.io" rel="nofollow">https://tefter.io</a>) 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.<p>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.<p>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).<p>A mostly complete list of features can be found here <a href="https://github.com/tefter/tefter" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tefter/tefter</a>.<p>Happy to answer any questions.
I'd like to mention my own tool: Static Marks [1]<p>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).<p>[1] <a href="https://darekkay.com/static-marks/" rel="nofollow">https://darekkay.com/static-marks/</a>
Here is a related project I am working on: <a href="https://johns-async-react-project.glitch.me/" rel="nofollow">https://johns-async-react-project.glitch.me/</a><p>It's instant search of my 1503 bookmarks. Just titles/tags/urls right now, but I plan to index the text on the pages.<p>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:<p>- <a href="http://www.myhq.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.myhq.com/</a><p>- <a href="https://www.bkmks.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.bkmks.com/</a>
Missing All Bookmarks from AgileBits, which is probably fine because it isn't available and probably isn't on anyone's radar anymore :)<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110511105926/http://agilebits.com/products/AllBookmarks" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20110511105926/http://agilebits....</a><p>But for posterity and to remember it, there's the old page via the way back machine.<p>Kyle<p>AgileBits
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...
did a ctr-f and did not find "linkstash" ( <a href="https://www.xrayz.co.uk/linkstash/" rel="nofollow">https://www.xrayz.co.uk/linkstash/</a> )<p>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.<p>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.
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.
pinboard, keep, pocket, insta paper, and a whole lot of stuff i’ve never even heard of.<p>I happily pay for pinboard and don’t need or want anything else.