Show HN: Reminiscence, self-hosted bookmark manager and personal wayback machine

I&#x27;ve needed self-hosted bookmarks for a while. There are some written in Java and PHP, but they just don&#x27;t seem very approachable.<p>This is a great project. Here are some things I noticed that set this project apart from others:<p>1) Detailed (up-to-date!!) documentation for installation. Sometimes you have difficulties installing a project because either the documentation is out of date or just excludes important details. Not true here - you create the virtualenv and run the scripts. There is nothing esoteric about setting up this project to use.<p>2) It&#x27;s on the latest version of Django. It can be a little discouraging to use a project that is running on a version of a library that is no longer supported.<p>3) It doesn&#x27;t require redis or nginx to run out of the box. It works as expected without these things, which means I was able to test the project simply by installing the python dependencies.<p>4) The interface is simple to use.<p>5) Project can be scaled up with celery.<p>6) Full disclosures about problems one may run into with this project and how to address them.<p>It took me 1 minute to install this project. I didn&#x27;t encounter any errors. THIS is how you get people to use your project.<p>The <i>only</i> thing I can say is that the interface needs a little improvement, but this is so easy to over look with such a functional project.<p>Thank you kanishka-linux for creating this project.

A chrome extension would be necessary for something like this to replace Pinboard&#x2F;Instapaper for me (I see that in the TODO already). But looks good otherwise. The only thing stopping me is the time commitment of hosting another app for personal use.

This is cool. I am going to try this out. See also webrecorder.io.<p>I want a record button in my browser bar that I can leave on!

Exciting! I&#x27;m still badly in need of a bookmark manager (and hopefully sync-capable) since xmarks shutdown. I&#x27;m looking at Shiori, ymarks, and Floccus. How does Reminiscence compare?

I love this and love that it&#x27;s built in Python, but…<p>&quot;Do not attempt to compete with Pinboard&quot;[0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.pinboard.in&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;pinboard_acquires_delicious&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.pinboard.in&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;pinboard_acquires_delicious...</a>

very cool. may also be worth mentioning the difference between this and projects like shaarli, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pirate&#x2F;bookmark-archiver" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pirate&#x2F;bookmark-archiver</a> , etc.

Nice. Are there plans to add saving of annotations (highlighting text and string to the link) like Diigo? Annotations seem to remain a elusive feature in a self hosted solution.

I love the idea, but is this a little bit overkill if you just want to mirror your bookmarks? There&#x27;s several simple spidering tools out there that you could change the User-Agent on in order to get mobile or desktop pages, and then you don&#x27;t need to maintain or run any servers or special tools. I would export my bookmarks, run a cron job on them with a spider tool, and commit the result to Git.

HTTrack is something that has been around for years and can rewrite the pages it downloads to internal links to the archived webpage.

I have a ghetto version of this - I just print web pages to PDF, and then archive the PDF locally to storage. I have every website of interest to me I&#x27;ve ever read since 1997 saved this way - and can harvest a lot of data from the 16,000+ PDF files I now have.<p>Beats me why this isn&#x27;t just a normal feature in the browser. No need for no stinkin&#x27; SAAS to do it ..

I would love the ability to bookmark an entire site. Does this allow full spidering?

What do you do if the page has videos and gifs? Does this support those?