Show HN: Shiori v1.5 – Self hosted bookmarks manager, now with archival support

Other choices for this problem as usual at https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted#bookmarks-and....

Seems like it's more this category: https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted/blob/master/R...

hrez|6 years ago

I wish people differentiate various web based bookmark services from actual browser bookmark synchronizers.

After xmarks' demise it was really hard to find correct replacement due to the above. I want to use native bookmarks in my browser instantly including locator search etc.

I ended up using awesome xBrowserSync which has cross firefox/chrome extensions to sync bookmarks. I self host with excellent and compact https://github.com/ishani/xSyn server written in go. Though you could use public servers as it's client side encrypted and anonymous.

charles_f|6 years ago

I did not know that list, it's awesome, contains tons of things I was looking for.

Thanks!

Tehnix|6 years ago

I've used Raindrop for a long time (https://raindrop.io) to store a bookmark of all articles I read, categorised in months. It's been interesting to see the variations in "slow" months and busier months. I can see that I'm desparate to read stuff when I'm bored for example.

The one thing missing in Shiori for me to replace it would be a share extension for mobile. I use several different browsers and also often read for mobile, where Raindrop can store the bookmark via the share sheet.

I was interested if others do similar things?

sandinmyjoints|6 years ago

Yes, such a feature is a must-have for me as well

kissgyorgy|6 years ago

Great! How does it compare to Wallabag (https://wallabag.org/en)? Does it provide something more? Wallabag changed my life, if there are some better features, I would switch in a bliss!

ekianjo|6 years ago

Wallabag has a pretty bad user experience if I have to compare it with Shiori. Shiori is easy to install, easy to run, and automatically creates local "reader mode" and archives of the webpages as you add them. On top of that it has a full command line client and an API you can query.

techntoke|6 years ago

Really happy to see an update to this. Shaarli is an alternative, but seems to have issues with the default Docker container.

However, I would be much happier with an ncurses-based and file-system database for a bookmark manager that uses Markdown front matter or even just a TOML file:

https://gohugo.io/content-management/front-matter/

Would be much easier to manage bookmarks and sync them in a directory-tree format. Hopefully something like this will get added eventually.

I'm envisioning something like,

  * bookmarks/
    * services/
      * google.md
      * favicons/

mh-|6 years ago

I've been doing this with directories/text files/a handful of shell functions for the last few years. It's not _great_, so I'd love if there was a better tool that supported a similar "storage backend". Being able to grep everything, sort by modtime, etc. is pretty nice.

WhatIsDukkha|6 years ago

Has anyone spoken to you recently about orgmode :)

platz|6 years ago

Plugging my self hosted web based bookmark manager as well https://github.com/jonschoning/espial

I like the ingestion via bookmarklet method, as it's low user overhead; just does the job and gets out of your way.

I have 73k bookmarks on my instance, which other sass sites sometimes aren't optimized for, and can be sluggish while filtering searching etc.. (users normally have around 5k)

I can add detail for a docker build if desired, but the build from source is pretty straightforward.

brettinternet|6 years ago

Sir, where have you been? I've been looking for exactly this, a self-hosted pinboard clone. A look and feel like miniflux [1] - there's something timeless about it. I also appreciate the public frontend. This looks like a great project. Have you sensed a need to add postgres/mysql support or perhaps that's overkill? Any plans to implement archiving?

I would love details on a docker build for my own homelab. I don't know Haskell, but perhaps it's time to tinker with something new.

[1]: https://miniflux.app/

platz|6 years ago

also, let's be honest - the kinds of folks running self hosted software are devs and techies, and no one in the open source self hosted space is feeding their family on these tools.

In that context open source should be like a bazaar where we share ideas and compete a bit, and see what works, and learn from each other. Let a thousand flowers bloom; we aren't talking about seed rounds here.

norswap|6 years ago

I'm not sure I would call a Pocket clone a "bookmark manager".

bravura|6 years ago

How about a bookmarks manager that is also a git repo?

stevekemp|6 years ago

I had this for years, but recent security-changes to browsers make it not work:

https://github.com/skx/bookmarks.public

Will work if you move the bookmark data into the main script, but then it is less easy to maintain and less clear.

darekkay|6 years ago

I'm maintaining my bookmarks in a git repository with Static Marks[1], which I have written.

[1] https://darekkay.com/static-marks/

pacoverdi|6 years ago

I've been relying on Hacker News "upvoted submissions" and Twitter's "likes" to avoid losing interesting links forever. And also browser bookmarks, synchronized or not. Kind of low tech.

Wondering if I'm missing out by neglecting bookmark managing tools. They sure would have to integrate seamlessly with my browsing habits for them to stick.

mglass3000|6 years ago

The archival support looks cool. Right now I'm using Bookmark OS (https://bookmarkos.com) which may be hard to leave but I will check this out

joker99|6 years ago

That looks amazing! Seeing how you singled out Pocket, do you offer a compatible API? That would get me to switch, as I could continue using my tools

fastbmk|6 years ago

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