A friend recently asked:
"What's the best online tool for managing a list of interesting and useful websites I might want to find later? Things I'm specifically looking for:
- Company or product won't disappear in the next couple of years
- Full-text search (I might remember the content of a blog post, but not the title), ideally with a saved cached copy of the page.
- Super easy interface for saving pages, browsing lists of saved pages, and categorization via tags."
Since I did a search for similar software not long ago, here's my answer (and Facebook's comment search is awful):
Zotero is nice:
https://www.zotero.org/
A single click on the plugin will make a local archive of the page. You can also purchase space from them to automatically sync/store on their servers. They seem to be optimized for academics who want to be able to later quote / cite web sites.
Another option is to record every page (including media) you visit locally, automatically:
https://archivebox.io/
Then you can use standard Unix tools to search, backup, etc. You can also configure it to be more selective, by say, only archiving the pages you bookmark. Archivebox also provides a great list of archiving tools here:
https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Community
If you don't care about the info being public, you can archive to Archive.is, archive.org, or locally (MHTML format) with the Archiveror extension:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/archiveror/cpjdnekhgjdecpmjglkcegchhiijadpb
If you like the Pinterest-style interface and want your archives to be private, consider the Turtl app:
http://turtl.org/
All of your links are stored locally in an encrypted database, and synced to the turtl servers. Can also store notes, pdfs, etc. Images are currently hotlinked however, so they will disappear over time, unless you manually save them.
All of the above are open source, self hostable, and have decent UI's. All have built-in search, or can be searched with standard unix tools. Zotero and turtl have tagging features--not sure about archive box. Tagspaces might be of interest for organizing local files:
https://www.tagspaces.org/
#software
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"What's the best online tool for managing a list of interesting and useful websites I might want to find later? Things I'm specifically looking for:
- Company or product won't disappear in the next couple of years
- Full-text search (I might remember the content of a blog post, but not the title), ideally with a saved cached copy of the page.
- Super easy interface for saving pages, browsing lists of saved pages, and categorization via tags."
Since I did a search for similar software not long ago, here's my answer (and Facebook's comment search is awful):
Zotero is nice:
https://www.zotero.org/
A single click on the plugin will make a local archive of the page. You can also purchase space from them to automatically sync/store on their servers. They seem to be optimized for academics who want to be able to later quote / cite web sites.
Another option is to record every page (including media) you visit locally, automatically:
https://archivebox.io/
Then you can use standard Unix tools to search, backup, etc. You can also configure it to be more selective, by say, only archiving the pages you bookmark. Archivebox also provides a great list of archiving tools here:
https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Community
If you don't care about the info being public, you can archive to Archive.is, archive.org, or locally (MHTML format) with the Archiveror extension:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/archiveror/cpjdnekhgjdecpmjglkcegchhiijadpb
If you like the Pinterest-style interface and want your archives to be private, consider the Turtl app:
http://turtl.org/
All of your links are stored locally in an encrypted database, and synced to the turtl servers. Can also store notes, pdfs, etc. Images are currently hotlinked however, so they will disappear over time, unless you manually save them.
All of the above are open source, self hostable, and have decent UI's. All have built-in search, or can be searched with standard unix tools. Zotero and turtl have tagging features--not sure about archive box. Tagspaces might be of interest for organizing local files:
https://www.tagspaces.org/
#software
#tools