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210 points mstef | 9 comments | | HN request time: 0.319s | source | bottom

a bit of background. this is a rewrite of omnom by asciimoo - the guy who also made searx. originally i wrote omnom, back in the days when del.icio.us was enshittified and gone down the drain. instead of complaining i was taking the opportunity to write a replacement that i would want, it became omnom, and for many years me and a bunch of users were very happy with it.

but the fast moving world of browser extensions made maintenance (for a non-commercial free software side project) too expensive, so the extension support became erratic, until it died completely. for a year or two i didn't use it.

but then asked asciimo if he could have a look a the extensions (since he was recently working on another extension, so had some experience), he looked at it, and rewrote the whole thing in go and fixed the extension. he even got support from nlnet/ngi0.

if you want to have your own self-hosted libre software bookmarking service for you and your community, give it a go, it's very simple, privacy respecting and most robust when it comes to snapshotting. asciimoo did a great job.

1. pratio ◴[] No.43680815[source]
I have settled on https://readeck.org/ it's absolutely brilliant. It supports postgres and a service with systemd. omnom looks promising, will keep an eye on it.
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2. osipov ◴[] No.43680904[source]
the only factor that's stopping me from moving to readeck is a lack of import functionality for evernote bookmarks. otherwise, i'd be 100% on readeck.
3. mstef ◴[] No.43680910[source]
looks nifty, but does it do snapshotting?
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4. braggerxyz ◴[] No.43681829[source]
Yes it does. Also written in Go and pretty hackable.
5. pratio ◴[] No.43683225[source]
It also does highlighting which is absolutely amazing. No need to save an entire page just for a piece of text. Also, you can have opds for ebooks.
6. smeej ◴[] No.43683553[source]
My dream tool allows me to create snapshots from either mobile or desktop browser, then read and highlight on my Android eInk reader or phone, then export my highlights and notes into Logseq...all without collecting all my data and selling it to advertisers (which basically leaves me with FOSS tools).

Omnivore was as close as I've ever gotten to this dream, even though their Android app wasn't great and certainly didn't have an "eInk pagination" option, but Readeck is at least giving me some hope again once Omni sold out.

7. YalebB ◴[] No.43684708[source]
I encourage you to check out my app ;)

Demo for Showcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehGolVAHm8U

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/showcase-co/id6740991352?platf...

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8. pratio ◴[] No.43689554[source]
Your app looks really and the website is also cool but Readeck and Omnom are both selfhosted bookmark managers. A cool app is good to have but not a requirement.
9. manosyja ◴[] No.43690169[source]
Use readeck, too. It’s exactly what I need, the only feature I miss is not being able to add arbitrary comments to text passages.