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Does anyone have some sort of bookmarking or pinning system (beyond browser bookmarks) that you use to save stuff on the web that you actually, like, go back and read?
No data-sucking, no big tech. Self-hosted possible, paid is also possible if it's great. I use Firefox forks, in case that's useful info.
@alisynthesis yeah, pinboard, social bookmarking for introverts, is run by maciej, good tagging, great community tagging/discovery, solid uptime, paid subscriber since 2019. However, minimal support if problems, am on fence on renewing in Feb, he's on the record for some pol stuff I can't get behind, sigh.
But like, check out the community tags. that and /popular are usually great. https://pinboard.in/t:synth/
@alisynthesis It probably shows some things about my life (or lack thereof), but I use the Zotero browser connector. It's somewhat buggy, but it does save all the metadata, the page URL, and a snapshot. It's probably overkill, though, for normal purposes.
@MusicologyHippo I used that quite a lot in my past life as an academic. Very useful software!
@alisynthesis I use Obsidian Web Clipper addon on LibreWolf to scrape a readable markdown version of a page. Syncthing then spreads those files out to my phone (SailfishOS) and the two or three laptops in active use (Linux and Windows).
That setup gives me a library of files that are readily available where ever I might be. I use that for a lot of things, and one of them is saving web pages to read later.
@ekari I use obsidian regularly and I have thought about doing that same thing. How do you resurface things to look at later, or do you just go through the files?
@alisynthesis @ekari using tags I guess, no ?
@alisynthesis mm. we save links in a text file sometimes. we do not have a good track record on actually going back and reading them but we've decided that's not the purpose of the system.
@alisynthesis I self host LinkDing... which has a nice simple notion of "unread", which works great for simple usage. Works everywhere, including mobile...
@fortifieduniverse oh wow, the "save to internet archive" feature is really cool. That's a really graceful way to handle not building out a way to save locally.
@alisynthesis maybe check out @flus !
@alisynthesis This is the one thing I wish browser makers would put time and energy into. It’s the one feature that would dramatically improve browsing.
@troublewithwords right? I know they all try to do some crazy favorite site thing, but that just doesn't work for me for some reason.
@alisynthesis I use Joplin's web clipper for "long-term bookmarks" so I can find what I want even if the website is gone, and note to self in messages is good enough for short-term stuff.
and yeah, my joplin setup is synced using nextcloud
@alisynthesis I've self-hosted Readeck for six or eight months now and I've found it quite useful for "read later" type saving.
@alisynthesis I can't quite believe this is like, a question these days, when browser bookmarks just used to be a list of text/URL pairs you could export to a known interchange format and carry around on a USB stick or a data camel*.
I guess this is why "Open file from your computer" is now a thing in someone-elses-computer-first apps
*this is just a dream I had don't sweat it
@alisynthesis can you use browser bookmarks and from Firefox's interface export to JSON?
Linkwarden. It has a browser extension that allows you to just click to add a bookmark. you can do a lot with it, even fully archive a website both locally as a screenshot, PDF, HTML, etc, as well as online via archive sites. you can also hook in a local LLM to tag things, if you don’t want to do that manually.
there’s a ton more features that I am too lazy to type out.
@alisynthesis I often send myself an email with the link via "share" functionality and a note of why...
@alisynthesis
For short term things I use Signal’s note to self.
I use that especially to keep a YouTube link I find on my phone so I can watch it on my laptop later with a proper adblocker.
@alisynthesis I use a pen to jot down the website addresses on a notepad.
@patrascan wow, that is dedication to a paper-based system. ❤️
@alisynthesis writing something down fixes it my memory better than cut and paste. Plus it gives me an excuse to buy a pretty notebook. Old habits die hard at my age (75).
@patrascan love it! I have the same experience of remembering things better when I write them down by hand.
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
