I recently switched to using KeePass and Syncthing, and I love them. I was wondering if there’s a bookmark manager where I can keep all my bookmarks on a synced file like KeePass. I’ve tried looking, but I haven’t had any luck. Does anyone know of one?
Floocus is what you are looking for. It can store the file on any webdav, gdrive, git or Nextcloud storage. I use it to sync my bookmarks between Browsers and systems
It doesn’t really work for me. I don’t use (or know how to use some of) the services that it requires
For desktop you probably can use something like https://github.com/TCB13/LoFloccus/ to save the bookmarks to a file in Synchthing. (Disclaimer: I haven’t tried this myself)
Why not just use bookmarks in Firefox with sync enabled? You can self host your own sync server if you are worried about privacy.
That would be great. In addition to this, I’d like something that combines bookmarks and something like zotero, so I bookmark something and create a locally hosted web archive. Ideally saving what is already loaded by the browser. So if the bookmark site dies I still have my archive including all images.
Ideally this could also improve coverage of webarchive through p2p.
I guess there’s nothing stopping you actually using KeePass for this.
What is the outcome you’re looking for? Are you trying to avoid an account for privacy reasons? Trying to sync between different browsers? Something else?
You could take a look at Floccus and see if it might meet your needs, though it’s not exactly what you asked for.
Yeah I guess I could use KeePass for this, but it seems like it might be tedious.
My reasons for asking: I don’t want to pay for a service, I don’t want to rely a service that could shutdown (I used to use del.icio.us once upon a time), and I do want something that syncs
I’m currently using Shaarli on a cheap host, but they’re about to raise their prices drastically. Also, I’m not very tech savvy so I haven’t been able to update is since I started using it, so I kind of don’t want to deal with it anymore away.
I just checked out Floccus but I’m not sure it’ll work for me because it requires a server or additional service.
If you don’t want to keep running a service, yeah it limits your options.
According to this, the Floccus browser addon is not able to (continuously) save to a file due to restrictions on what browser extensions are allowed to do.
However, if you’re on Windows of MacOS, it looks like you can use the tool LoFloccus. It hasn’t been updated in a couple of years, but the Floccus dev was recommending it only a month ago so maybe it still works?
Works with Nextcloud, Git, or WebDAV and stored the bookmarks as a file.
