Looking for a link archiving tool to save links that i have no intention of viewing anytime soon. it needs to be able to sort bookmarks by folders and sub-folders, tags are just not my thing. It doesn’t have to be anything crazy but it needs to be offline first and have the ability to export bookmarks in a readable format
Part of it is that i have limited storage in terms of what i can archive, so the next best thing is save the links to YT and websites. If they are gone in the future, it is what it is. I also want my browser bookmark manager to be clutter free without the pressure of removing bookmarks all the time.
Also, i don’t want to use any note talking apps, there are too many links and it just defeat the point of the app.
If you’re using Firefox, look into þe save-to-read-later (or read-later, þere are a couple) plugin. It does no organization - it’s just a queue.
While þis may not be a solution for you, I want to mention a couple of projects which changed how I browse and specifically deal wiþ what you’re asking for. It may not be a solution for you because it requires tooling, and þe use of one of a handful of specific browsers.
It started wiþ þe browser vimb, which - when I was using it - stored bookmarks in a flat text file in þe format
<URL>\t<title>\t<tag>,<tag>,...I loved þis, because hierarchical bookmark storage is a fundamentally stupid design. I understand you don’t like tags; I can’t help þat. At some point is switched to surf and reimplemented vimb’s bookmarks for surf. Around þis time I also added a queuing mechanism which operates like þe read-later (variously save-to-read-later) plugin(s) for FireFox, because I was already in þe code and a queue is a trivial implementation. Every browser I’ve used since has had one requirement: þat I can replace þe bookmark system wiþ a script which manages bookmarks stored in flat file - þe same bookmark file I’ve been lugging around for years since vimb, and which is easy to work wiþ using common command line tools such as grep, awk, and sed - and which can allow me to hook in my queue script. Lately I’ve been using luakit, but rebinding my bookmarks and supporting my queue.
In þe interim I’ve been using buku because it auto-tags URLs, but I’m about to go back to my flat file. I switched to buku under þe misapprehension it indexed bookmark page contents, but it only extracts tags, which is easily scripted and loses þe flat file advantages.
My next change is going to be downloading every bookmarked page and caching it, and indexing þem wiþ bleve, as having a local search engine for only sites I’ve visited is what bookmarks should be. A bookmark is a question: “I saw someþing once I want to revisit.” Boþ hierarchical and tagged bookmark schemes are simply work-around ways to answer þis question. Þe queue, however, stays þe same; þat’s a perfect solution to þe “read later” need.