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

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very cool. may also be worth mentioning the difference between this and projects like shaarli, https://github.com/pirate/bookmark-archiver , etc.

Thanks fo linking bookmark-archiver here. I liked the sound of reminiscence but unfortunately it requires bleeding edge python and tries to integrate the webserver (and many other things that don't need to be). It's a matter of taste I suppose but I couldn't get it working. bookmark-archiver just works on all my systems, old and new.

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

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A chrome extension would be necessary for something like this to replace Pinboard/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.

Why do you want to replace Pinboard/Instapaper? What feature do you miss?

I don’t think they archive links. They only bookmark them. Am I wrong?

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you want to replace Pinboard/Instapaper? What feature do you miss?

I don’t think they archive links. They only bookmark them. Am I wrong?

Pinboard has an archive option at a higher subscription level.

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

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I love the idea, but is this a little bit overkill if you just want to mirror your bookmarks? There'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'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.

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

#16

very cool. may also be worth mentioning the difference between this and projects like shaarli, https://github.com/pirate/bookmark-archiver , etc.

Thanks fo linking bookmark-archiver here. I liked the sound of reminiscence but unfortunately it requires bleeding edge python and tries to integrate the webserver (and many other things that don't need to be). It's a matter of taste I suppose but I couldn't get it working. bookmark-archiver just works on all my systems, old and new.

How is 3.5+ bleeding edge? It's been out for more than 3 years, and is installed by default on most current OS releases.

I personally only support the latest stable release, so I only support 3.7.

Python is extremely backwards-compatible so there's never been any breakages for me, from 3.4 to 3.5 to 3.6 to 3.7.

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

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

Reminiscence has some advance features like auto-tagging, auto-summarization and archiving in various formats, which separates it from other bookmark managers. Few days back, I posted it on r/selfhosted and there one fellow redditor suggested to contact Floccus dev, instead to writing bookmark addon for every browser. Hopefully, I'll get in touch with the Floccus dev and will see if it can support Reminiscence in some form or other.

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

#19

I love the idea, but is this a little bit overkill if you just want to mirror your bookmarks? There'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'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.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

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

#20

very cool. may also be worth mentioning the difference between this and projects like shaarli, https://github.com/pirate/bookmark-archiver , etc.

Thanks fo linking bookmark-archiver here. I liked the sound of reminiscence but unfortunately it requires bleeding edge python and tries to integrate the webserver (and many other things that don't need to be). It's a matter of taste I suppose but I couldn't get it working. bookmark-archiver just works on all my systems, old and new.

It doesn't integrate web-server in default installation. In docker installation, one can change docker-files and remove components which they do not want.
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