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Ask HN: How to save bookmarks locally including searchable content?

24 pointsby fhaldridge7over 3 years ago
When adding bookmarks I&#x27;d like to save the content and ideally search it. How can I do this?<p>A lot of times I remember pieces of content but don&#x27;t not the title of the article, making it hard to find something I&#x27;m looking for. Also some of the sites just disappear after some time.

8 comments

lextutoover 3 years ago
I use SingleFile [0] in the browser:<p>&quot;SingleFile is a Web Extension (and a CLI tool) compatible with Chrome, Firefox (Desktop and Mobile), Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi, Brave, Waterfox, Yandex browser, and Opera. It helps you to save a complete web page into a single HTML file.&quot;<p>I really like and often use the option to highlight text and add notes to a web page before saving it locally. After saving the file you can easily do a full-text search because, e.g., both macOS Finder and Windows Explorer index HTML files by default.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gildas-lormeau&#x2F;SingleFile" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gildas-lormeau&#x2F;SingleFile</a>
justsomehnguyover 3 years ago
Decade ago I just copy-pasted the page&#x2F;content of the page to OneNote. Worked good enough.<p>A couple years ago I discovered Bookstack&#x27;s [0] editor was capable to keep the most of the formatting for the Word documents and most of the sane pages, looks like it still works [1][2]<p>It didn&#x27;t manage to save the whole old.reddit.com page, but I tried this on a official demo, of course it could be just limited resources.<p>And of course there is Evernote [3]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bookstackapp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bookstackapp.com&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;VYvaqnl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;VYvaqnl</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;rUcP9ov" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;rUcP9ov</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;evernote.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;webclipper" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;evernote.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;webclipper</a>
anderivover 3 years ago
I’ve not had the chance to try this personally, but have seen ArchiveBox [0] mentioned frequently as a nice bookmark&#x2F;history archive system.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ArchiveBox&#x2F;ArchiveBox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ArchiveBox&#x2F;ArchiveBox</a>
arkokoleyover 3 years ago
I&#x27;m building my own solution because nothing like this existed to my knowledge.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;qY6GQSj" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;qY6GQSj</a><p>It currently supports webpages, pdfs, personal notes, images and twitter.
arunaugustineover 3 years ago
Eagle Filer is really good for this on Mac![1] (Not affiliated)<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;c-command.com&#x2F;eaglefiler&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;c-command.com&#x2F;eaglefiler&#x2F;</a>
rahimnathwaniover 3 years ago
You could self-host wallabag:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wallabag.it&#x2F;en&#x2F;features" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wallabag.it&#x2F;en&#x2F;features</a>
umenover 3 years ago
i remember there used to be good firefox plugin to save content offline can&#x27;t remmber its name . there should be simple web extention that does this to save articales offline
maCDzPover 3 years ago
I use Zotero for that.