Ask HN: How to save bookmarks locally including searchable content?

[fhaldridge7]

When adding bookmarks I'd like to save the content and ideally search it. How can I do this?

A lot of times I remember pieces of content but don't not the title of the article, making it hard to find something I'm looking for. Also some of the sites just disappear after some time.

[lextuto]

I use SingleFile [0] in the browser:

"SingleFile is a Web Extension (and a CLI tool) compatible with Chrome, Firefox (Desktop and Mobile), Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi, Brave, Waterfox, Yandex browser, and Opera. It helps you to save a complete web page into a single HTML file."

I really like and often use the option to highlight text and add notes to a web page before saving it locally. After saving the file you can easily do a full-text search because, e.g., both macOS Finder and Windows Explorer index HTML files by default.

[0] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

[justsomehnguy]

Decade ago I just copy-pasted the page/content of the page to OneNote. Worked good enough.

A couple years ago I discovered Bookstack's [0] editor was capable to keep the most of the formatting for the Word documents and most of the sane pages, looks like it still works [1][2]

It didn't manage to save the whole old.reddit.com page, but I tried this on a official demo, of course it could be just limited resources.

And of course there is Evernote [3]

[0] https://www.bookstackapp.com/

[1] https://imgur.com/a/VYvaqnl

[2] https://imgur.com/a/rUcP9ov

[3] https://evernote.com/features/webclipper

[anderiv]

I’ve not had the chance to try this personally, but have seen ArchiveBox [0] mentioned frequently as a nice bookmark/history archive system.

[0] https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox

[arkokoley]

I'm building my own solution because nothing like this existed to my knowledge.

https://imgur.com/a/qY6GQSj

It currently supports webpages, pdfs, personal notes, images and twitter.

[arunaugustine]

Eagle Filer is really good for this on Mac![1] (Not affiliated)

[1]: https://c-command.com/eaglefiler/

[rahimnathwani]

You could self-host wallabag:

https://www.wallabag.it/en/features

[umen]

i remember there used to be good firefox plugin to save content offline can't remmber its name . there should be simple web extention that does this to save articales offline

[maCDzP]

I use Zotero for that.