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Why did browsers fail when it comes to bookmark management? I mean seriously, it is arguably one of the most important features for organising your digital life and the best that a browser vendor can do is “folders”? This has always baffled me.

Who enjoys opening their bookmarks and seeing 500 links in an unordered list? Metadata has been a thing for how long now, and yet no browser that I know of has gone ahead and implemented a proper bookmark management workflow.

Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

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Aside. I completely stopped using book marks. Everything relevant to me will be an open tab, and closed once read or no longer useful; everything not immediately relevant enough to warrant an open tab will probably not be read anyway, or the link broken once I get back to it. This has made my digital life a lot less burdensome to manage, and it also felt freeing to drop all that unorganised baggage. To all those book…

Have you tried the arc browser? It embraces having lots of open tabs and organize them as you wish (or not) https://arc.net/

Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

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After delicious and pinboard I am done with bookmarks. You know why? Because I never access them ever again and if I do, and that is ridiculously rare, finding them elsewhere in is actually easier and faster. I am all for cute little services and one app for one need, but bookmarks for me are not a need at all. Whatever little need it has are squarely served by the browser’s bookmark service and I think all of them have one these days. They’re not the easiest but it’s fine.

Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

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post #11

Why did browsers fail when it comes to bookmark management? I mean seriously, it is arguably one of the most important features for organising your digital life and the best that a browser vendor can do is “folders”? This has always baffled me. Who enjoys opening their bookmarks and seeing 500 links in an unordered list? Metadata has been a thing for how long now, and yet no browser that I know of has gone ahead and…

because it's contrary to their business model? Google wants you to search for all your queries, so it knows in real time what matters to you

Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

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post #4

Aside. I completely stopped using book marks. Everything relevant to me will be an open tab, and closed once read or no longer useful; everything not immediately relevant enough to warrant an open tab will probably not be read anyway, or the link broken once I get back to it. This has made my digital life a lot less burdensome to manage, and it also felt freeing to drop all that unorganised baggage. To all those book…

The problem is when I suddenly remember something I saw a month ago that is now relevant and I can't find it anymore. That's why I preemptively bookmark interesting stuff

This. I also edit the bookmark title to include a bunch of keywords. Finding an article I have only a vague recollection of on the wide web can be hard, but finding it in my bookmarks is easy.

I was a big del.icio.us user back in the day, maybe self hosting something like the OP is the way to go.

Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

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post #4

Aside. I completely stopped using book marks. Everything relevant to me will be an open tab, and closed once read or no longer useful; everything not immediately relevant enough to warrant an open tab will probably not be read anyway, or the link broken once I get back to it. This has made my digital life a lot less burdensome to manage, and it also felt freeing to drop all that unorganised baggage. To all those book…

For me the trick was to no hoard random bookmarks. I still keep a short list of bookmarks that I visit often of very likely to re-visit.

Anything else is purged.

Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

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post #14
post #11

Why did browsers fail when it comes to bookmark management? I mean seriously, it is arguably one of the most important features for organising your digital life and the best that a browser vendor can do is “folders”? This has always baffled me. Who enjoys opening their bookmarks and seeing 500 links in an unordered list? Metadata has been a thing for how long now, and yet no browser that I know of has gone ahead and…

because it's contrary to their business model? Google wants you to search for all your queries, so it knows in real time what matters to you

I don’t think that argument makes any sense. Do people who use external bookmark managers suddenly stop using search? Also, this isn’t just about Chrome.

Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

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post #11

Why did browsers fail when it comes to bookmark management? I mean seriously, it is arguably one of the most important features for organising your digital life and the best that a browser vendor can do is “folders”? This has always baffled me. Who enjoys opening their bookmarks and seeing 500 links in an unordered list? Metadata has been a thing for how long now, and yet no browser that I know of has gone ahead and…

I mean, it depends on the features. Browsers have bookmarks, basic bookmarks.

Now there are bookmark tools which are archiving a page for example, have full text search. And you can add more and more features, it’s an endless game - that’s why we have that many bookmarking tools. Everybody has different priorities and needs different things.

Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

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post #11

Why did browsers fail when it comes to bookmark management? I mean seriously, it is arguably one of the most important features for organising your digital life and the best that a browser vendor can do is “folders”? This has always baffled me. Who enjoys opening their bookmarks and seeing 500 links in an unordered list? Metadata has been a thing for how long now, and yet no browser that I know of has gone ahead and…

because it's contrary to their business model? Google wants you to search for all your queries, so it knows in real time what matters to you

and Google can remember which results you want when typing keywords to url column.

it almost work like I can access all things I need by "search" with Google...until I found Google does not remember anything after two year.

Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

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It would be helpful to have an overview of how to use this. I understand that I run a docker image, but what does it do? Do I have a bookmarklet? Can I import and reorg my saved bookmarks? Does it tie in with Chrome or Firefox saved bookmarks? Etc? Thanks!

Documentation is still WIP and incomplete.

As per https://grimoire.pro/docs/roadmap sharing, import, export, bookmarklet and browser extension are on the roadmap.

Offtopic: I've heard the word Grimoire only from the Black Clover anime and expected the author to be a fan of the series. Didn't know that it's such a common word, so TIL.

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