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Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features
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Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features
#92Why 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…
Classic bookmarks failed for the same reason manually curated directories lost to search engines - because the mnemonic organization doesn't work well at the required scale. Firefox has tags though, and is generally good at the classic bookmark management. You can use it to bookmark a couple hundred sites without getting lost (more or less), especially with extensions. But what you really need is a google-like, or ev…
> Classic bookmarks failed for the same reason manually curated directories lost to search engines - because the mnemonic organization doesn't work well at the required scale.
That's exactly it for me. Once I get a few bookmarks in the list, I'll inevitably need to organize them, but then I'll find I don't want to take the time to do that, so I just don't bother saving the bookmark.
At the end of the day, I just want to dump all my links somewhere and be able to find them again. I don't want to think about where they should go.
I built a journaling app recently [1] (the UI is similar to twitter, but for your personal thoughts), and what I've ended up doing a lot is dumping links in there. What I've found that helps is writing a quick note and adding tags, but even more than that, having a link preview generated makes it easier to remember what the link was later. (Based on screenshots, it looks like Grimoire is also generating a link preview.)
The fact that the journal UI is a "feed" also means I can browse through my history and see when I saved the link, so it has a chronological aspect to it as well. I think having all these affordances for finding things (commentary text, tags, link preview, chronology) is way more useful than hierarchical management.
Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features
#93Why 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…
My bookmarks are all well ordered, it’s just a matter of putting them in order. For documentation I even indent them like this:
Docs (folder, expanded)
Node
FS
Path
SQLite
Database
Statement
Syntax
…
Metadata has been a thing for how long now
It would be naive to assume that it will contain a systematized coherent description of a page content.
Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features
#94I feel like "docker as the preferred installation method" is a dealbreaker for me. This means that either the dependency situation is out of control, or the author just doesn't want to think about it, but either way it's a no from me...
I feel the opposite. I won't install anything except official OS packages outside Docker, if I can avoid it. Sick of polluting my filesystem with things that are hard to update, conflict with other installed packages, mess with my shell startup files, unnecessarily request root access to install, install to weird places, don't play nice with other installed packages, and on and on. Docker is not without complications…
Have you given Nix a try? It's fully solved this problem for me, and it also has Dockerfile generation down great. Nothing else comes even close
What's really nice is using direnv to cd into a directory and having a flake.nix file in it which changes the entire system to what I need to do in that folder. So I don't need any of my dev environment to be system-wide, everything is per project. That alone has cut my system down to pretty much just system tools (replacements for shell commands), productivity tools (Obsidian, bitwarden, etc), and my browser. It's just so nice.
Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features
#95Aside. 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
Having bad memory is a nice solution to this. You just don’t remember, so there’s no problem.
Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Classic bookmarks failed for the same reason manually curated directories lost to search engines - because the mnemonic organization doesn't work well at the required scale. Firefox has tags though, and is generally good at the classic bookmark management. You can use it to bookmark a couple hundred sites without getting lost (more or less), especially with extensions. But what you really need is a google-like, or ev…
> Classic bookmarks failed for the same reason manually curated directories lost to search engines - because the mnemonic organization doesn't work well at the required scale. That's exactly it for me. Once I get a few bookmarks in the list, I'll inevitably need to organize them, but then I'll find I don't want to take the time to do that, so I just don't bother saving the bookmark. At the end of the day, I just want…
Love this concept, and the implementation looks nice and simple. Nice job.
Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> This. ... Isn't submitting a response enough to convince the rest of us plebs that you agree or have other strong feelings about the parent comment? Chances are good that, unless you're James Joyce, folks will read through the entirety of your statement to draw inflection from what you've conveyed. When you don't agree with the parent comment, have you kicked things off with, "Not this" or, more succinctly, "!This"…
I understand “This” below a comment as a sort of a sign that it messages exactly what the replying person wanted to say. Akin to inheritance. If you just reply with an extension, it may not be as clear that you fully support it.
Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features
#98Why 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…
Classic bookmarks failed for the same reason manually curated directories lost to search engines - because the mnemonic organization doesn't work well at the required scale. Firefox has tags though, and is generally good at the classic bookmark management. You can use it to bookmark a couple hundred sites without getting lost (more or less), especially with extensions. But what you really need is a google-like, or ev…
That is exactly right.
That is why I included search on my bookmark manager. I use it daily. It contains search.
Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features
#99Browser bookmarks were always ignored. Now I just save them to Pocket (getpocket.com).
I don't like any service that requires account, and is managed by a corporation.
I use self hosted solutions whenever possibile. For bookmarks I wrote a special program for myself for that, as no other program, service fully ticks all the right requirements.
Re: Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features
#100Aside. 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…
I did not stop bookmarking, I just radically simplified my routine. No (sub)folders, no system, just bookmark everything into one folder, lightly sprinkled with some tags from the top of my head. Since I never know what I will actually find useful at a later time, I spend no energy organizing them. But having a simple record of my (want to) reads is super useful whenever my brain vaguely remember having seen or read…
I use the same approach, which works great for me.