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.

atlasraven31 ,

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

Franzia OP ,

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.

DJArbz ,

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

PHLAK ,
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This is the way.

Franzia OP ,

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 ,

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

gibmiser ,

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

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

Franzia OP ,

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

djquadratic ,
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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

prd ,

What functionality are you looking for that goes beyond opening the bookmark manager and, you know, sorting them into folders?

pkulak ,

Linkding

Franzia OP ,

This seems really good for the future when I wanna keep it organized and not make such a mess again

Awwab ,
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The developer recently added support for SearXNG and some other alternatives to Google that lets you see related bookmarks when doing a search.

Tiritibambix , (edited )
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Can you elaborate and / or link to docs about this please ?

I can’t seem to find anything relevant and I use both linkding and searxng.

Awwab ,
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Ah sorry it wasn't the actual linkding project but the browser plugin.

https://github.com/Fivefold/linkding-injector

Tiritibambix ,
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Looks really cool. Thank you very much for the link :)

micha ,

I’m quite happy with Linkding. Migrated from Pinboard to it about 2 years ago. I have over 18k bookmarks in it and it doesn’t break a sweat. Can recommend!

happyhippo ,

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

TheButtonJustSpins ,

I’ve been liking Shiori.

Franzia OP ,

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

PHLAK ,
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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 OP ,

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 ,
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    smoof ,

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

    nutbutter ,

    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 OP ,

    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.

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

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

    Franzia OP ,

    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!!

    user ,

    xbrowsersync ftw

    Knusper ,

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

    p000l ,

    I like Shaarli

    Franzia OP ,

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

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