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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

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I love products with a bit of personality. There's tons of bookmark managers out there, but how many of those take the magical-mystical angle?

I don't have a use for Grimoire - not willing to change my bookmark workflow at this point - but you can be sure I'll remember it just based on that.

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!

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 bookmark junkies out there - do you really actually read all that stuff, or is it just data hoarding? (And I don’t mean this in spite, I’ve hoarded lots of data at one point or another myself :-))

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…

Yes, but now you can run into risk of becoming 1000-tabs-open junkie like me :-)

Off-topic, but given how people try to apply LLMs to everything right now, I am surprised there is no extension or something similar to help manage bookmarked and open tabs.

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…

I bookmark things in pinboard that I may wish to find again, at some other point in time... I am helping my future self, and I appreciate that by paying pinboard to ensure a backup of the page is saved. I search the bookmarks every week or two, and I frequently search back years to "I recall a passage, but now want to read the full article again or share it with someone"... this works even when the site has long-ceased to exist because of the backup scraped at the time. I have bookmarks going back to the mid-1990s, and I do periodically (every year or two) look at which still work and which have fallen by the wayside for which I have no saved page — and I delete those.

Additionally I have this page https://david.kitchen/bookmarks/ which is my browser home page in all browsers, and is another form of a bookmark collection, and this is how I mostly interact... where pinboard is long-term storage of bookmarks, anything I interact with regularly enough is on this page. I update this whenever I find myself returning to the same thing for more than a few weeks.

I don't feel like I carry any baggage, the opposite in fact... I feel like this clears the mind of the responsibility to remember as this is mostly long-term memory and short-term convenience.

I also keep my browsers in permanent incognito mode with NoScript... so tab-city is not a thing I've ever done, every session is a blank session. I view bookmarks like data on a computer... it should be extremely portable across devices and OSs, and so bookmarks should transcend the device, a specific browser, and be available everywhere.

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…

Yes, but now you can run into risk of becoming 1000-tabs-open junkie like me :-) Off-topic, but given how people try to apply LLMs to everything right now, I am surprised there is no extension or something similar to help manage bookmarked and open tabs.

I use quicktabs

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/quick-tabs/jnjfeinj...

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…

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
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