From 4508c5d4e367964c0c5664bc21bcd3ab2dd803e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: eltrac Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:00:27 +0800 Subject: [en/article] publish /en/article/browser-bookmarks --- content/en/article/browser-bookmarks.md | 17 +++++++---------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/en/article/browser-bookmarks.md b/content/en/article/browser-bookmarks.md index 3d62c7ea..37bad8a7 100644 --- a/content/en/article/browser-bookmarks.md +++ b/content/en/article/browser-bookmarks.md @@ -1,12 +1,7 @@ +++ title = 'Browser’s Bookmark Manager Is Actually Good' -subtitle = '' -slug = '' -tags = [] -categories = '' -date = 2026-04-26T16:07:32+08:00 -draft = true -toc = true +date = 2026-04-28 18:00:10 +draft = false +++ 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. @@ -15,17 +10,17 @@ So, why do I abandon such lovely FOSS software? 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. Voilà, 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. @@ -55,3 +50,5 @@ Web links can be reading materials (blog posts, news reports and documentation), 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. + -- cgit v1.2.3