Hoarder - The Self-Hosted Bookmark Manager

Trying out Hoarder app today, to see whether it would competes Anybox as my main bookmark manager. I do like self-hosting services, and I like hoarding stuff 🤭.

At first sight, it feels like a complete app I can put in production, it has a iOS app with share sheet support, chrome extension for easily save from browser, it saves note and images.

I really like the ability to have AI tagging for links and images so that I don't have to manually organize them. And the full text search is something Anybox doesn't have yet. While I write this article, May 2024, it is still under review in the canny page of Anybox.

However, there are some features missing before it can become my main bookmark manager.

• REST API - for easily exporting data like links, tags, and for an Alfred workflow.

  For now, it provides a CLI tool, but I am installing the app on my homeserver instead of my laptop. I will have to ssh to use the CLI, not ideal. A REST API would be good for remotely managing data.

• Easy data export

  I don't seem to find a very good way to export data easily, for example screenshots, local cache, links.

• Offline archiving

  For now, Hoarder supports plain text caching and screenshots. It would be good to see other formats supported (Planned, as of May 2024)

• Local scrapper to fetch content after user login for some sites.

  What I like about Anybox is its integration with SingleFile extension. It can directly save the .html downloaded to Anybox via API, so that any content behind paywall will also be downloaded. (It actually addresses the pity that SingleFile metadata only contains the first part of the full domain - it will only show something like https://github.com, when you directly download a html with SingleFile metadata to DEVONthink)

Other features could be useful:

• RSS subscription link

  Like what linkding and wallabag provides. I am currently relying on RSS to sync my read-it-later from wallabag to DEVONthink.

To conclude, it will not replace Anybox with Hoarder for now. But it is a very young and promising open-source app with rapid iteration, someday it might will.