I have a LOT of bookmarks - what can I use?

I want to be able to manage and sort them. I use firefox, so both tags and folders are okay. manually exporting groups of them to like documents related to the topic I was researching (and then removing the bookmark) would also be okay. Self-hosted solutions are also welcome.

Very successful post, thank you everyone for sharing your bookmark-related tools.

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DJArbz@lemmy.notmy.cloud · 16 pts · 2y (3 replies)

I've started to use Raindrop, seems to work well and you can tag each bookmark and later search by tag.

Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 2y

I'm gonna try raindrop, it seems focused on this first organization step and will help me get this all organized and put out the fire.

MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

The free version is really full featured. Premium has some really cool features as well but free is not limited in any way.

PHLAK@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

This is the way.

PHLAK@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Honset question: How many of these bookmarks do you use regularly? Can you trim them down to a much more manageable number of bookmarks?

I periodically go through my bookmarks and purge ones I haven't accessed in a while because they're not actually serving any purpose.

Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Yes certainly, and I think I'm gonna need a better UI than what firefox offers in order to do it. I'm real quick and messy about saving, so a lot is gonna get deleted for sure.

Neil@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 2y (1 reply)
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smoof@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y

If you're typing GitHub to search for the bookmark, you might was well type GitHub in the address bar to search.

happyhippo@feddit.it · 7 pts · 2y

I don't even sort them in folders anymore, just make sure I add tags to them when saving, then use search

atlasraven31@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Could you sign in with Firefox and manage across multiple devices?

Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 2y

Yes. What I mean to say is they are unorganized, I need to like go through them and put them in better folders or tags.

nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I use Nextcloud bookmarks with Floccus. Floccus can be installed as an add-on in Firefox and as an app on Android. It retains the folder structures of bookmarks.

Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y

Floccus seems like its good for merging and then syncing bookmarks centrally, which I'm gonna need in the future when the organizing is done.

A10@kerala.party · 6 pts · 2y

https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag this is more like a self-hosted pocket.

djquadratic@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)

If it’s all articles and documents I’d suggest zotero

Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Wow this is an absolute powerhouse of a tool, beyond what I couod even imagine.

djquadratic@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y

Yeah I've used it for years and it's incredibly useful! I use the citation tool on it a lot and then I bought papership on my iPad to read the articles away from my computer

wiki_me@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y

I save some links in org mode, if it's not something i frequently use then what is the point in keeping it in the browser?

What i like about org mode is that it keeps things in a plain text file, i also have emacs scripting that helps a little.

leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2y

I just use Bitwarden.

In the desktop app, I created a new folder called 'Bookmarks', then for subfolders I click the '+' icon next to 'folders' then enter 'Bookmarks/Whatever' and hey presto, I have a new subfolder called 'Whatever' under the 'Bookmarks' folder. I then add tags in the 'notes' section of each individual entry for easy searching.

Benefits: free, open source, private, encrypted, syncs between devices automatically.

Pantherina@feddit.de · 3 pts · 2y

404 Bookmarks is handy too, its crazy how many sites disappear

xGinoPilotinox@mastodon.social · 3 pts · 2y (4 replies)

@Franzia for a minimal cli-interface: https://github.com/jarun/buku

Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Oh this is amazing. Very very cool.

xGinoPilotinox@mastodon.social · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

@Franzia Everything jarun has done there is worth a look

Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

You're right, how cool!

xGinoPilotinox@mastodon.social · 1 pts · 2y

@Franzia Feel free to give feedback if you try this. After I have set up my operating system (again), I start (again) trying to get rid of things that are unnecessary and rather use tools like those of jarun. I am above all a draw between Raindrop.io and buku and how well it works to use them with neovim/Obsidian and a launcher like rofi or onagre.

kionite231@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Like this? https://github.com/ghodawalaaman/bookmarks

Don't forget to make the repo private!

Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 2y

Oh!!!! Yes yes yes. How simple, lol.

floppy@rabbitea.rs · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Probably not what you're after, but there's a new Fediverse bookmarking tool called Postmarks

Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y

Okay this is really really fucking cool and I wanna try it out. It's... tangentially related to the issue. Thanks for sharing it anyway!!

Knusper@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y

Bookmarks Organizer is quite cool for just cleaning up broken bookmarks, duplicates etc..

p000l@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I like Shaarli

Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y

Oh wow I like Shaarli, too. I really like that it has this tag cloud feature.

user@lemmy.one · 2 pts · 2y

xbrowsersync ftw

user@lemmy.one · 1 pts · 2y

So op what did u end up using? I'm using xbroswersync ❤️

TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I've been liking Shiori.

Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y

I LOVE that this offers offline archiving. That's something I really want on occasion and I don't know how to do.

gibmiser@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Probably stupid but my brain says use excel or a Google sheet and then you can sort and do tags however you want