All posts tagged: bookmarks

I solved my read-it-later bookmarks problem with a reading inbox in Obsidian

I solved my read-it-later bookmarks problem with a reading inbox in Obsidian

It’s often said that browser bookmarks are the graveyard of good intentions. We save an article with a mere click, and plan to return to it. We never do. Read-it-later apps and even browser features have gotten better. At least for me, my digital hoarding habits have remained the same. Worse, I am juggling different apps: Instapaper for long reads, browser bookmarks for quick references, and a notes app for things I’d half-processed. Each a stranger in its own silo. There was no “web” of logical relationships even between the related articles. A dedicated reading inbox inside Obsidian, built around the Obsidian Web Clipper extension, finally fixed all three problems at once. Related I use this simple workflow to turn my random web reading into a library I can actually use This simple Obsidian workflow becomes so convenient that I find myself always reading my web clippings. Saving links is easy; thinking is not Browser bookmarks are a procrastinator’s escape Credit: Saikat Basu/MakeUseOf Most read-it-later apps focus on saving, not processing. You tap a button, and …

I stopped using browser bookmarks because this self-hosted tool organizes everything for me

I stopped using browser bookmarks because this self-hosted tool organizes everything for me

I’ve never been great at organizing browser bookmarks, and I’ve accepted that it’s partly the tool’s fault because you save a link, toss it into a folder, and forget about it. There’s no way to find anything unless you remember exactly where you put it, and even dedicated Chrome bookmark alternatives don’t fully solve the problem. Eventually, I moved to Karakeep, a free, open-source, self-hosted app that bookmarks links, notes, images, and PDFs in one place with AI-powered tagging. It does what browser bookmarks should’ve done from the start. Related This Chrome alternative plants trees while you browse—yes, really And it’s not as gimmicky as it sounds. Karakeep saves more than just links It bookmarks URLs, notes, images, and PDFs Browser bookmarks only save URLs. That’s it. There’s no context, no preview, nothing to remind you why you saved a link three weeks later. Karakeep takes a different approach by letting you save links, plain-text notes, images, and PDFs in one place. When you drop a URL into Karakeep, it automatically fetches the page title, …