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Interesting to see this project pull it through anyway.
They also begin with updating a lot of deb-dependencies. I imagine this to be hellishly difficult to maintain. Props for even trying!
The devs are also ex-Pocket users and have worked hard to get feature parity and then some. There are mobile apps too for reading on the go (and work offline) which I use extensively when I am on flights. There is a graphql API and webhooks you can use for extending its functionality. Search could be a little better, but I use the labeling system which works well. I also use the logseq integration to keep a persistent log of articles I read on any given day.
My perfect bookmark manager is Markdownload https://github.com/deathau/markdownload Just save the complete page, only selected text or only the link to a markdown file or Obsidian. With downloaded, linked or without pictures. My OS and Obsidian can search those files, they have more (automatically added) metadata. I can even edit them in the browser: add your thoughts, tags or change the name of the file before they…
This sounds like the solution I could benefit a lot as well since I am using Obsidian for almost everything. Could you elaborate more on the "local AI assistant parsing" part please?
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I used a Bash script for a long time that would take my new bookmarks each month and download a copy of the page. It came from an idea presented on HN, I would ack-grep it for search. Stores using it because I use several computers and two OS now, and the utility of it is pretty low for me. You could make a donation to Archive.org and just a script to check for an "archive-this" tag in your bookmarks, then pass those…
Do you still have the script perchance?
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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.
susan cooper and d&d, for me.
Having a first-class UI for bookmarks really does make a difference. I used to agree with some of the sentiments expressed in comments here - that bookmarking is a write-only activity, that just feels satisfying without actually being useful. Then I started using Zotero for my bookmarks, organizing them into collections, tagging them, adding descriptions ("Abstract"), etc., and I find that I actually go back to them…
If you overlook some idiosyncrasies due to its main purpose (references), Zotero really shines as a bookmark manager. It is mature and has a lot of advanced features. The last one I discovered is enabling hierarchical tags with an addon. [1] I still welcome any new well-built alternatives like Grimoire, and I agree with you that a first-class UI is important. [1] https://github.com/windingwind/zotero-actions-tags
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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…
And, local -- thank goodness. Web apps weren't really even a thing, yet.
This also meant a compact, information-rich GUI, as opposed to all the low-density web crap we're forced to put up with, these days.
It's EOL. IIRC, in part browsers closing themselves off to third party application access did them in.
Anyway, if anyone's serious about making a good personal bookmark manager, take a look at PowerMarks, if you can somehow. No one else I've seen has come close to what they had.
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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…
You might want to check out xBrowserSync. Its open source, can be self-hosted, has browser extensions and an Android app.
You don't have to organize anything. When you add bookmarks, you add them with tags and they will all go into the default bookmark folder. The beauty is that you never have to interact with that folder. Instead you use the browser extension to search for tags, name, and description. Its a very simple app that does 1 thing well.
The UI does look a little dated, but there's so little of it that it doesn't matter much.