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Re: Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking

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hardwaresofton wrote: post #18
severine wrote: post #10

I currently use Firefox bookmarks, synced through my Mozilla account. What would be the advantages for me if I were to use Webtag? Related: does anyone know if there's any limit to synced bookmarks/history in Firefox?

Do you ever feel like Firefox is forgetting your bookmarks or search is bad? Not endorsing this project or any other, but from time to time I’m a bit suspicious that firefox is dropping some links I’m sure I saved/not surfacing some links I’m fairly sure were related to my search. Likely all in my head though!

No, I definitely feel that Firefox is forgetting some of my bookmarks. And the search is indeed awful.

I switched to buku and rofi-buku, which is more robust, convenient and accessible solution. And not tied to a single browser (I use several, for example, different browsers for leisure and for work).

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renegat0x0 wrote: post #23

I wrote bookmark manager in Django. https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive You can self host it. You can add RSS sources and auto import new links regularly. It may not be stare of the art, but gets the job done. Demo below, but may not be working when you look at it. It runs on raspberry pi. https://renegat0x0.ddns.net/apps/catalog/entry/11503/

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Post by account-5 »

avinassh wrote: post #25

I love the homepage, simple and clean! Any screenshots of how it looks for logged users? I noticed it uses MongoDB. That seems like an overkill to me, have you considered SQLite? if you are open to taking feature requests: - ability to add random notes - any submitted link should be captured in archive / wayback machine - (complicated) search within the submitted links content

Sounds like you're after zotero.

Re: Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking

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Post by mapreduce »

carlosjobim wrote: post #26
severine wrote: post #10

I currently use Firefox bookmarks, synced through my Mozilla account. What would be the advantages for me if I were to use Webtag? Related: does anyone know if there's any limit to synced bookmarks/history in Firefox?

Why should somebody try to convince you in either direction? I can't see how it would matter to any other person how you specifically choose to sync your bookmarks.

> Why should somebody try to convince you in either direction?

Because we are on a tech website and as good samaritans we want to help each other out by sharing the information, knowledge, projects, tools or recommendations we have?

Re: Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking

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selmetwa wrote: post #36

Really cool! I like that bookmarking seems to be making a comeback. I really like the low-tech approach. It would be cool if there was a social component to it as well. I actually worked on a similar project centered around social bookmarking; https://huntergather.website/ .

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