Given that a person's bookmarks reveal some of the most personal interests, preferences and worries about that individual, it would be nice to erase them from my browser, but have them running on some privacy-focused solution that I can add new links to on the fly. Any suggestions from anyone?
Ask HN: What's a good, privacy focused bookmark manager?
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Re: Ask HN: What's a good, privacy focused bookmark manager?
#2It's the most boring, but a text file with the urls and a title is probably your best option. Copy and paste to browser.
Encrypt the file if you want extra security and use a good password/password manager.
I understand it's not elegant UX/UI though.
Re: Ask HN: What's a good, privacy focused bookmark manager?
#3Your password manager may have a notes option.
Send links to yourself.
Re: Ask HN: What's a good, privacy focused bookmark manager?
#4Pinboard.in ?
Re: Ask HN: What's a good, privacy focused bookmark manager?
#5Try Larder? https://larder.io/
Sadly, pinboard is basically a zombie these days.
Re: Ask HN: What's a good, privacy focused bookmark manager?
#6It's the most boring, but a text file with the urls and a title is probably your best option. Copy and paste to browser. Encrypt the file if you want extra security and use a good password/password manager. I understand it's not elegant UX/UI though.
Interesting idea and I'll give it a try, though the thought of transferring over my existing bookmarks (very large) and giving many of them titles is daunting to say the least.
Re: Ask HN: What's a good, privacy focused bookmark manager?
#7https://histre.com/
It has a strong privacy policy, full API access to all your data, and the ability download your data as a zip file. When you delete something / delete your account, it is truly gone, not soft-deleted.
It is really fast (no bloated SPAs) too.
It can automatically import your bookmarks, and will make ongoing knowledge management, sharing etc seamless.
The extensions are open source: https://histre.com/install/
As a demo of how histre automatically organizes your knowledge, check this out: https://histre.com/hn/ (Filter HN by automatic tags)
(Disclaimer: Founder)
Re: Ask HN: What's a good, privacy focused bookmark manager?
#8It's the most boring, but a text file with the urls and a title is probably your best option. Copy and paste to browser. Encrypt the file if you want extra security and use a good password/password manager. I understand it's not elegant UX/UI though.
Interesting idea and I'll give it a try, though the thought of transferring over my existing bookmarks (very large) and giving many of them titles is daunting to say the least.
There might he a tool to export your bookmarks to a good standard - I'll look around. I doubt you're the first to look for this!
Edit: chrome offers to export to html - might be a better start! You can then turn that into txt or copy paste what you're interested in!
Re: Ask HN: What's a good, privacy focused bookmark manager?
#9Try Larder? https://larder.io/ Sadly, pinboard is basically a zombie these days.
What do you mean? Pinboard is working fine for me.
Mind you I only signed up a few weeks ago so can't speak to reliability over time.
Re: Ask HN: What's a good, privacy focused bookmark manager?
#10I've created Static Marks [0], an open-source tool that gives you the full control over your bookmarks. You can even import your existing browser bookmarks. The "add bookmarks on the fly" part is (by design) not as straightforward, though, as you have to enter your bookmarks manually into a YAML file.