Linkwarden: FOSS self-hostable bookmarking with AI-tagging and page archival

Hello everyone, I’m the main developer behind Linkwarden. Glad to see it getting some attention here!<p>Some key features of the app (at the moment):<p>- Text highlighting<p>- Full page archival<p>- Full content search<p>- Optional local AI tagging<p>- Sync with browser (using Floccus)<p>- Collaborative<p>Also, for anyone wondering, all features from the cloud plan are available to self-hosted users :)

I&#x27;ve been using Karakeep (formerly known as Hoarder) and it&#x27;s been a great experience so far. One thing they&#x27;re working on now is a Safari browser extension. I noticed Linkwarden lacks a Safari browser extension - is one on the roadmap?<p>Lately I&#x27;ve been using MacOS and I&#x27;ve noticed Chromium-based browsers use more resources than the native Safari. This is especially true with Microsoft Edge, which sometimes consumes tens of gigabytes of RAM (possibly a memory leak?). In an attempt to preserve battery life and SSD longevity, Safari is now my go-to browser on MacOS.

Is there any software that can provide verified, trusted archives of websites?<p>For example, we can go to the Wayback Machine at archive.org to not only see what a website looked like in the past, but prove it to someone (because we implicitly trust The Internet Archive). But the Wayback Machine has deleted sites when a site later changes its robots.txt to exclude it, meaning that old site REALLY disappears from the web forever.<p>The difficulty for a trusted archive solution is in proving that the archived pages weren&#x27;t altered, and that the timestamp of the capture was not altered.<p>It seems like blockchain would be a big help, and would prevent back-dating future snapshots, but there seem to be a lot of missing pieces still.<p>Thoughts?

As a paid product, has anyone used Raindrop as well and have opinions&#x2F;comparisons? And on the self hosted side, vs Hoarder?<p>I’ve been considering switching from Raindrop to a self hosted option, but while I like self hosting I’m also leaning towards just paying someone to handle this particular service for me.

I want LLM accessible bookmarks. That&#x27;s it.<p>It doesn&#x27;t work yet.<p>I use singlefile to archive pages I&#x27;m viewing Linkding.<p>Then I have a BeautifulScript4 script to strip the assets.<p>Then I use Jina&#x27;s ReaderLM v2 to render the HTML to proper Markdown: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;jinaai&#x2F;ReaderLM-v2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;jinaai&#x2F;ReaderLM-v2</a><p>Except, of course, for longer table oriented text documents like HN that doesn&#x27;t work.<p>I want a plaintext archive of web pages in a github repo or similar. Not a fancy UI&#x2F;UX

See also:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkace.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkace.org&#x2F;</a> (my fave)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sissbruecker&#x2F;linkding">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sissbruecker&#x2F;linkding</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jonschoning&#x2F;espial">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jonschoning&#x2F;espial</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;motd.co&#x2F;2023&#x2F;09&#x2F;postmarks-launch&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;motd.co&#x2F;2023&#x2F;09&#x2F;postmarks-launch&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;betula.mycorrhiza.wiki&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;betula.mycorrhiza.wiki&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linkhut.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linkhut.org&#x2F;</a>

I love these sorts of apps, but I still am not really sure why I need the webpages. At any time I do research for a topic I find more things than I can read in that session, so what are the old links for?<p>I would love to hear how people use this product once they have stored the links!

I like hoarder(karakeep). It&#x27;s got an API and mcp server as well to play with now locally and self hosted. I&#x27;ll check this out as well.

I tried with the demo, but full content search does not work. I don&#x27;t know if the demo is randomly generated, anyway this is the test I did.<p>Text to search in the top search bar: RRP<p>Page that contains that term: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk&#x2F;blog&#x2F;r1-jailbreak.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk&#x2F;blog&#x2F;r1-jailbreak.html</a><p>Result found: 0<p>Does this search the content of the archived pages?

An alt suggestion, I use Eagle (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eagle.cool&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eagle.cool&#x2F;</a>) for this.<p>I started using it primarily for images inspiration collecting but it has grown into my &quot;everything&quot; collecting, including bookmarks.<p>Libraries can be shared via file sharing (e.g. google drive, dropbox), one time purchase price, amazing software design, extensions, and more.

Howdy -- I just spun up my own instance yesterday, as it turns out. Very slick! I&#x27;ve already converted from NextCloud&#x27;s Bookmark manager.<p>Quick suggestion:<p>I like to maintain separate browser configurations (in this case, using top-level collections named &quot;Vivaldi,&quot; &quot;Chrome,&quot; etc.). What might be nice is the ability to link other (non-browser) collections. So, if I create a collection of news blog websites, I can turn around and include those in each browser collection. That way, those news blog sites are centrally maintained once. In other words, browser collections become assemblies.<p>Let me know what you think!

No experience with this yet, but looking to upgrade from Linkding. Main features I&#x27;m looking forward to is syncing the bookmarks with native browsers bookmarks through Floccus, and being able to make highlights on the articles I save.

Just wish it had offline support. That&#x27;s really the main use case for me is when I&#x27;m traveling and have spotty internet. Read articles offline and hopefully add some to the queue to be saved when I&#x27;m online again.

Looks really neat. But it also seems a bit heavyweight (for the client). Is it the case compared to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;readeck.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;readeck.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;</a> ?

Recently started selfhosting it. I like it. I tried hoarder, but it was overcomplicated and consumed way more resources. Now it got MCP, so I might use it with n8n, we&#x27;ll see.<p>A couple improvements I&#x27;d like: I want drag-and-drop link saving.<p>If I add a reddit link, it doesn&#x27;t import the reddit thread title, it uses reddit&#x27;s title in linkwarden (Reddit - the heart of the internet). Same goes for a few other websites like gitlab.<p>I&#x27;d like an MCP.<p>Resource usage optimization: while it is smaller than karakeep&#x2F;hoarder, for me it consumes 500-950MB ram, and I have only 500 links added.

I personally use Raindrop.io [0]. I have used it for more than 3 years and it does it&#x27;s job very well.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;raindrop.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;raindrop.io&#x2F;</a>

I recently started using Hoarder for this; once Omnivore went down under...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hoarder.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hoarder.app</a>

This looks nice, I like how many of these tools have been surfacing. I recently started using <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;readeck.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;readeck.org&#x2F;</a>, which aims to solve some of the same problems and really like it. Much better than a &quot;bookmark&quot; tool for things like articles.<p>My two favorite parts of Readeck are:<p>- it provides a OPDS catalog of your saved content so you can very easily read things on your e-book reader of choice. I use KOReader on a Kindle and have really enjoyed reading my saved articles in the backyard after work.<p>- you can generate a share link. I have used this to share some articles behind paywalls with friends and family where before I was copying and pasting content into an email.

There is also KaraKeep:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;karakeep-app&#x2F;karakeep">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;karakeep-app&#x2F;karakeep</a><p>Seems very similar.

I‘m a heavy user and really happy with the speed and stability I‘m getting, running Linkwarden on my Hetner VPS. Only problem was in the beginning, importing a lot of existing links from Pinboard, the available RAM of my meager VPS was exceeded multiple times by metadata resolution. But once that‘s been overcome, it’s a zero effort tool.

The only issue stopping me from using Linkwarden is that it creates duplicates when importing bookmarks, see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;linkwarden&#x2F;linkwarden&#x2F;issues&#x2F;442">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;linkwarden&#x2F;linkwarden&#x2F;issues&#x2F;442</a>

Started using it a while back. Works rather well, even though some minor UX quirks exist. Self-hosting is easy, too, with Docker Compose. If you&#x27;re in the market for a web-accessible bookmark manager, maybe give it a go!

&gt; Unlock 14 days of Premium Service at no cost!<p>So, I assume you want me to pay per month. No, thank you. I&#x27;d pay you $10 or $20, once, and use the app forever.

Very cool project!<p>QQ for users: How is the UX compared with ArchiveBox?

As of this moment...This post has 4 points and 2 comments...How does it make to number 3 on HN page?

This is an excellent bookmark sync tool by way of floccus integration

This looks interesting. How feature-crippled is the self hosted version?

I&#x27;m paying for readwise, any benefits of switching over to this?

Is there a way to import pinboard or similar data?

I have yet to find anything that has the effort vs. results benefit of CTRL+S -&gt; &quot;Webpage, Single File (*.mhtml)&quot;. Even works on mobile.

The pushing on their cloud offering almost everywhere (main page: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linkwarden.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linkwarden.app&#x2F;</a>, GitHub README: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;linkwarden&#x2F;linkwarden">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;linkwarden&#x2F;linkwarden</a>, and installation guide: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.linkwarden.app&#x2F;self-hosting&#x2F;installation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.linkwarden.app&#x2F;self-hosting&#x2F;installation</a>) just give me a bad taste about it.<p>I understood an open source project need revenue to survive, but the reason why this project grew so large is because of the self-hostable nature, and the push of the cloud offering is the opposite of that.<p>I really hope this is not the first steps towards enshittification...