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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mwalker789 to c/selfhosted
 

Problem: I scroll on lemmy, I talk to friends, I see some interesting page, project, funny meme or something else. (when I was on reddit i pressed SAVE, when I was on Instagram I pressed PIN (or something) and now I’m stuck with (uncategorised) information all over the place.

My current idea is: push everything to Telegram group where my bot listens, take the URL, maybe even extract some data and save it somewhere. 90% of my input will be over the phone but here and there also PC.

Any suggestions for self-hosted service to dump data in our (even better) to even skip whole bot part altogether?

UPDATE: Maybe I was a bit unclear. I want to "save" URLs and also somehow tag/categorize them. So I think plain bookmarks won't cut it, also flow is important (on mobile), switching copy/paste is to much hassle.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If it's all URLs, you can look here: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#bookmarks-and-link-sharing. I use linkding myself and save everything I want to look at later, avoiding the need to "save" or "pin" posts. Other solutions can also offer offline caching locally too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I recently installed linkding which works quite well.

[–] mwalker789 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

can you quickly explain wait is your workflow if you find sth using mobile phone? do you copy URL, switch to service and paste it there?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For phone usage, I use this guide (Android): https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding/blob/master/docs/how-to.md#using-http-shortcuts-app-on-android. So I never have to really copy any URL as long as there is a share button somewhere.

The browser extension also works like a charm.

[–] mwalker789 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

use… bookmarks? And if it's a concern that the pages you want to bookmark might disappear, you can use something like wallabag: https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag

[–] placq 9 points 1 year ago

I use Joplin Firefox extension. One click and i can save page as a text/HTML/image/link into my Joplin notebook. You can sync with your own server, with NextCloud, with Joplin paid cloud and with something else. Great FOSS app.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I have yet to find a way to do this on my phone, but on my pc I use the Joplin note taking app with the web clipper extension. Joplin is also available for smartphones, but I don't think the webclipper is.

You can select part of a webpage, or even the whole page, and have it saved into Joplin. You can create notebooks for certain categories or add tags to make searching stuff more easy.

I sync it using nextcloud, but that's a bit more work to set up.

[–] Gecko 4 points 1 year ago

Not selfhosted but I think Pocket also falls into that category of service.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

@mwalker789 Are you looking to create a "to read later" list, or to save the content to disk? Pinning and saving is like the former but your ideas about a telegram bot suggest the latter.

If it is more on the archiving side, here is a short list to get you started https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Community

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You want a "read it later" service, like Omnivore or Wallabag.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Another vote for Omnivore. It syncs great into Obsidian also.

[–] mwalker789 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is your workflow if you find something on mobile and you want to save it to omnivore?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You share it to the Omnivore app. Couldn't be easier.

It does neat things like unfolds Twitter threads also.

[–] mwalker789 2 points 1 year ago

nice, i’ll check it out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

@mwalker789 I used ArchiveBox for a while and I really liked it. --> https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@mwalker789 @selfhosted Solution?: Use Yuito + a mastodon account to browse around.
I have a bookmark button below your post as I type this.

Not sure though if mastodon's favourites translate to lemmy's likes though, you also lose the "best of day/week/month" UI. So it depends on your use case.

I hope this helps!

[–] mwalker789 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

doesn't this just cover mastodon? what about everything else?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@mwalker789 Not sure what you mean by everything else. You can see, follow, post, comment, favourite and bookmark any ActivityPub-compatible posts (that includes lemmy, for which I don't have an account, yet here I am talking with you)

[–] mwalker789 1 points 1 year ago

Right - maybe I wasn't clear enough - I'm looking for something where I can dump any URL which I find any where - aka.: just scrolling the web (not just lemmy/mastodon/fediverse)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reminds me of the days of Stumbleupon when you could save webpages. Isn't what you're talking about just bookmarks? You would need a URL so it'd have to be in a browser anyway.