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authoreltrac <hi@eltr.ac>2026-04-28 18:00:27 +0800
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title = 'Browser’s Bookmark Manager Is Actually Good'
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-date = 2026-04-26T16:07:32+08:00
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I deleted [Linkding](https://linkding.link/). It's been running on my VPS for quite a few months and I decided to retire it. To be fair, Linkding is really nice, and it comes with a powerful ecosystem. There are a lot of client apps and people even make Apple shortcuts for it. The [omg.lol](https://home.omg.lol/) community started to host one recently and it seems genuinely cool.<!--more-->
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Well, I don't really need a service that keeps running 24 hours. It's just a bunch of links. It's handy to share bookmarks via a straight-forward web page, but I don't need it. I post [weekly](https://www.geedea.pro/weekly/) in Chinese and it's basically a collection of links I have looked at and found interesting.
-The only thing I'll be missing is that a self-hosted bookmark manager acts as something you might call *Single Source of Truth*. I save links to the one and only Linkding instance from all of my devices. I won't have to go through different apps or even devices to find what I want. There won't be links scattered around and it won't feel messy.
+The only thing I'll be missing is that a self-hosted bookmark manager acts as something you might call *Single Source of Truth*. I save links to the one and only Linkding instance from all of my devices. I won't have to go through different apps or devices to find what I want. There won't be links scattered around and it won't feel messy.
I would say *SSoT* is a natural *trait* of web services of this kind. Other solutions can aquire this trait, preferably by *hitchhiking* a service that you already use, like a cloud storage or a remote Git server.
-So I found [floccus](https://floccus.org/), a tool for syncing bookmarks across bookmarks and devices. Basically, it stores your bookmarks in open format, into a remote file system, and this remote is very close to *SSoT*. Browsers installed with floccus fetch from remote and update local bookmarks. Existing bookmarks are either deleted or uploaded to remote, depending on your configuration.
+So I found [floccus](https://floccus.org/), a tool for syncing bookmarks across browsers and devices. Basically, it stores your bookmarks in open format, into a remote file system, and this remote is very close to *SSoT*. Browsers installed with floccus fetch from remote and update local bookmarks. Existing bookmarks are either deleted or uploaded to remote, depending on your configuration.
VoilĂ , all your bookmarks now lives locally in your browser and they're synced seamlessly. If you backup your cloud storage, they also have backups.
*What about tags? And bundles? How can you manage hundreds of links without them?*
-That is a significant downside of most browser's native bookmark manager. Personally, I settle for folders. Hierachy is almost enough for my bookmark management needs.
+That is a significant downside of most browser's native bookmark manager (Firefox supports tags, but they cannot be synced to other browsers). Personally, I settle for folders. Hierachy is almost enough for my bookmark management needs.
An additional trick I do is renaming bookmarks with distinct text. Like [this link](https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-03-25-thoughts-on-slowing-the-fuck-down/), it's titled *Thoughts on slowing the fuck down*, you wouldn't know it's about AI, the IT industry, agents and perhaps a little bit of philosophy. To solve the ambiguity of such titles, simply rename it by appending *tags* in the end.
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Create sub-folders if you must. I like to keep minimal hierachy because it's easier, and with our text tags hack, you won't need more categories.
+I've been doing this for two weeks and it feels smooth. Hopefully I won't get to the point where I find myself desperately going back to Linkding, though I don't really see why I might.
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