Do I know anyone who uses (and maybe even self-hosts) #Linkwarden? https://linkwarden.app/
I am looking for a way to organize ~5000 bookmarks and ~35000 (no typo) read it later items.
Does anyone here have an opinion? Is it "good"? Does it have pain points you already discovered?
I mention these two categories separately, because I really think "read it later" is discardable, I rarely want to see these again. At the same time *some* of them might turn into a bookmark, that I would like archived and filed away neatly.
I also need a good, reliable, low-effort pipeline from finding stuff, usually on my phone, turning this into an actionable thing for later. Later is when I'll decide if this gets archived or not.
I wonder if Linkwarden is the right tool for my taste.
@claudius
> I wonder if Linkwarden is the right tool for my taste
Have you looked into Zotero? It's designed for academic use (my friend used it while writing their PhD thesis) and may be over-engineered for your needs. But it's Free Code (AGPL), both client and server AFAIK, and development is supported by charging a subscription for an (optional) online backup for your local-first Zotero database a commercial service.
@strypey Yes, Zotero is what I'm using right now. It is at the same time over- and underengineered. It's not a great fit for what I do.
I like the way it archives websites. I don't use 80% of the fields it fills for each bookmark. I absolutely hate the way it integrates with my browser or that I have to have it running in the background.
Sync works fine for me, I have my own storage set up and that never gave me trouble. I also tried their mobile app, which is not terribly great IMO.
@claudius
> Zotero is what I'm using right now
Probably worth mentioning in the OP to head off 'what abouts' from people like me : D
> I like the way it archives websites. I don't use 80% of the fields it fills for each bookmark
If you're just looking for simple bookmark-syncing, independent of any particular browser instance, there's a tool for that I've been using with NextCloud;
It seems to work fine, but it's underengineered for my needs. Wanna swap? : P
@claudius
> But listing everything I have already tried wouldn't work anyway
Intriguing. Why do you say that?
@strypey 1/2 there's a character limit and it's unlikely to be beneficial to anyone. Plus I don't keep track of all the things I tried that immediately failed.
One example: I looked at #Karakeep ever so briefly. From that 2 minute glance it was clear that it has recently jumped onto the Gen-AI hype, with Anthropic Claude being the second most frequent committer. I want no part of this, so that was an immediate deal-breaker.
@strypey 2/2 Another one: I also tried SemanticScuttle back when Delicious closed shop. That project itself has been discontinued and most will likely never have heard of it. I don't feel it's worth listing.
Claudius
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