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Show HN: Linkidex – save and sort the URLs you care about

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Hi HN! My name is David (david@linkidex.com) and I am the author of Linkidex (www.linkidex.com)! My goal is to make bookmarks better.

I built Linkidex because I was getting overwhelmed by the number of things I had to keep track of on the internet during my day to day job. Constantly needing to re-find various wikis or jira epics or project proposals or whatever was eating into my day. I was using a chrome extension to manage urls, but the extension was getting unwieldy as my list of “important URLs” grew and I started looking for alternatives. There are a few really cool bookmark managers out there, but I wasn’t satisfied with what I saw. Regular bookmarks don’t cut it either for me as I need something that works across browsers and devices. Thus, Linkidex was born.

The most basic idea with Linkidex is that you can go to Linkidex and just start typing. Linkidex will search across your link titles, link urls, categories, and tags all at once. Click the result you are looking for and it opens in a new tab. If you want to scope your search by specific categories or tags you can do that too.

Linkidex is a progressive web application. It (mostly) works offline and it can be downloaded to your phone and act like a native app without requiring you to grant it any permissions. The back end is rails, and the front end is React, Typescript and GraphQL.

Security wise it is deployed to AWS. The database and back end are all wrapped up in a VPC. The front end supports 2 factor and WebAuthn, so you can use a yubikey or your device's fingerprint reader as your second factor.

Linkidex can import and export bookmarks to and from your favorite browser. That said, I’ve limited the number of links / categories / tags a given user can have for now on Linkidex to prevent anything insane from happening.

All feedback / feature requests / complaints / whatever welcome. Thanks for checking out Linkidex!

Show HN: Linkidex – save and sort the URLs you care about
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Re: Show HN: Linkidex – save and sort the URLs you care about

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Interesting "create test account from hn" button! As a side note: 1)which are the differences between pocket? 2) do you have a smartphone app on your road map? Great job! Gonna test it!

“Test account for HN” registers an account with an email I’ll purge later, so people don’t need to give me their email address if they don’t want to.

1) I think the biggest difference is that Pocket (and some other competitors) try to keep you inside pocket. You can get to the original URL of something in your list, but it takes an extra step each time. Linkidex doesn’t try to keep you inside Linkidex, we just try to help you find the thing you are looking for as quickly as possible so you can move on.

2) Yep! Our roadmap includes browser extensions and native phone applications.

Re: Show HN: Linkidex – save and sort the URLs you care about

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What it misses for me personally is an ability to search over the pages my links are pointing to. Ideally within some additional radius over the links these pages have. Perhaps, it won't be easy to implement, but it looks like the only way to find a page you've bookmarked a year ago when you vaguely remember what was it about... Even integration with Google Custom Search would do the job here.
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