Posted by mstef 5 days ago
but the fast moving world of browser extensions made maintenance (for a non-commercial free software side project) too expensive, so the extension support became erratic, until it died completely. for a year or two i didn't use it.
but then asked asciimo if he could have a look a the extensions (since he was recently working on another extension, so had some experience), he looked at it, and rewrote the whole thing in go and fixed the extension. he even got support from nlnet/ngi0.
if you want to have your own self-hosted libre software bookmarking service for you and your community, give it a go, it's very simple, privacy respecting and most robust when it comes to snapshotting. asciimoo did a great job.
My links about bookmarks and links below.
https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive - django app, RSS client, simple web crawler, under construction
https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database - my bookmarks repository
https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2025 - RSS links for year 2025
https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2024 - RSS links for year 2024
https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2023 - RSS links for year 2023
https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database - I also maintain a list of domains found in the Internet
https://rumca-js.github.io/search - search that uses links maintained in zip files
https://rumca-js.github.io/music - my music library, browsable
https://rumca-js.github.io/bookmarks - my bookmarks, browsable
Awesome work!
But, I'll definitely check out Omnom too!
It's also free ;)
Demo for Showcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehGolVAHm8U
App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/showcase-co/id6740991352?platf...
Omnivore was as close as I've ever gotten to this dream, even though their Android app wasn't great and certainly didn't have an "eInk pagination" option, but Readeck is at least giving me some hope again once Omni sold out.
Demo for Showcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehGolVAHm8U
App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/showcase-co/id6740991352?platf...
That said, the snapshot search either isn't working, or isn't doing what I'd expect it to do. If I search for `fsf`, the snapshot search finds the FSF's website. But if I search for text that appears in the snapshot of the homepage (e.g. "sysop" or "sysops"), then I get no results.
I would expect the snapshot search to work roughly like Google, but for these limited snapshots of pages, but it appears to only search the URLs, maybe the page titles?
I often have windows of hundreds of tabs open that I'd like to archive and close but raindrop has been the only one that has been able to get rid of my clutter.
Pros: - stores data in your icloud - stores a copy where possible - full-text search
Cons: - not open-source - works on mac/ios only