How's it compare to Hoarder/Karakeep?
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Announcing Linkwarden 2.11
Today, we're excited to announce the release of Linkwarden 2.11! 🥳 This update brings significant improvements and new features to enhance your experience.
For those who are new to Linkwarden, it’s basically a tool for saving and organizing webpages, articles, and documents all in one place. It’s great for bookmarking stuff to read later, and you can also share your resources, create public collections, and collaborate with your team. Linkwarden is available as a Cloud subscription or you can self-host it on your own server.
This release brings a range of updates to make your bookmarking and archiving experience even smoother. Let’s take a look:
What’s new:
✨ Customizable Readable View
You can now configure the font style, font size, line height, and line width for the readable view. This allows you to create a more personalized reading experience that suits your preferences.
This feature essentially gives Linkwarden what other read-it-later apps like Pocket offered.
📝 Add Notes to Highlights
You can now add notes to your highlights in the readable view and view them in the highlights sidebar. This is a great way to jot down your thoughts or insights while reading, making it easier to remember key points later.
⚙️ Customizable Dashboard
The dashboard has received a major overhaul! You can now customize it to show the information that matters most to you. Choose from various widgets like recent links, pinned links, or your saved collections. This makes it easier to access the content you care about right from the dashboard.
📥 Import from Pocket
Good news for Pocket users! You can now import your saved links from Pocket into Linkwarden. This makes it easy to transition to Linkwarden without losing your existing bookmarks.
🌐 Crowdin translation
We’ve integrated Crowdin for translations, making it easier to contribute translations for Linkwarden. If you’re interested in helping out with translations, check out our Crowdin page.
To start translating a new language, please contact us so we can set it up for you. New languages will be added once they reach at least 50% translation completion.
🎨 Improved UI
Thanks to Shadcn UI, the user interface has been improved with a more modern and polished look. This update enhances the overall user interface, making it easier to use Linkwarden.
✅ And more...
There are also a bunch of smaller improvements and fixes in this release to keep everything running smoothly.
Full Changelog: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/compare/v2.10.2...v2.11.0
Want to skip the technical setup?
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We hope you enjoy these new enhancements, and as always, we'd like to express our sincere thanks to all of our supporters and contributors. Your feedback and contributions have been invaluable in shaping Linkwarden into what it is today. 🚀
imho, Karakeep is more for data preservation. Readeck is for articles you want to read later. Linkwarden is for important bookmarks like online accounts, billing accounts, etc. However, there is nothing that keeps you from using either as a bookmark app.
Why would you say Karakeep is more for data preservation than Linkwarden? Doesn't Linkwarden has all the features that Karakeep has, and more?
I say that because that's how I use the three:
Readeck: Read it later Karakeep: Data preservation Linkwarden: Important links like business accounts, online accounts, etc.
Ah, gotcha
Don't try to make sense of it. Just think 'Oh yeah, it's that oooold guy' and nod sympathetically.
Nah, I get it. I've held on to certain products or services before because I liked them for a specific purpose, even when people tried to get me to switch to others. And it's not like Karakeep is the wrong choice, it does what you're using it for very well. Until the whole trademark/copyright crisis recently, I used it too. I only switched to Linkwarden when the future of the project was maybe in doubt.
Hmm, I'd consider Linkwarden as a mix of Pocket and ArchiveBox, with collaboration functionality.
That works too.
Worse. KaraKeep was partially inspired by Linkwarden.
I used linkwarden. But I don't use their save article functionality. All I do is to use it as a bookmark manager. In that sense its a little bloated for me. Would like to try some other, please recommended.
I use good old wallabag for read it later because of how well it works in fbreader on my Kobo. Linkwarden for the bookmarks. It’s not really bloated if you think about how the archiving preserves copies of bookmarks in case the site goes down, and more crucially, allows for full text search.
is it possible to use sqlite as db engine? I'd like to avoid running yet another postgres container.
Is it bad to have one central postgres for all your containers?
probably not.
it's more work than using sqlite inside of the application's container though.
How easy is setting up an sqlite container as opposed to just connecting to an existing postgres container network? Genuine question since I've never tried using sqlite before.
SQLite doesn’t need a networked setup at all. What the poster above is asking is an option for linkwarden to just use embedded SQLite as its db engine. For apps I build I just embed SQLite into the binary, no db network needed, the binary just sets up a db file at startup in say ~/.config/app/db.file and off to the races. If you don’t need to access it from multiple contexts SQLite is hard to beat.
doesn't inspire confidence https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/issues/94#issuecomment-2731564980
Some nice improvements to an already great piece of kit. Good job y'all. Looking forward to updating.
Glad you like it!
It's definitely a solid replacement for Raindrop.io.
There are so many of these I want to use one but I can't choose
Linkwarden is very polished, has some neat features for bookmarks. Readeck is nice for quick read-it-later data. I use it a lot when I see an article I want to read, I'll save it, and read it in the evening laying in bed with a bowl. Karakeep is for data preservation. Those are my top three.
Linkwarden says it's for data preservation, too. What's the difference between it and karakeep then?
No major difference its just what works for you. I used Hoarder (KaraKeep) in the early days but found I preferred the Linkwarden UI particularly on mobile so switched. But they're both great.
Strangely I've found I tend not to use it for everyday bookmarks use (I've put those in a Joplin note). Instead I use Linkwarden for interesting stuff I might need at some point - long read articles or information for projects that I'll be undertaking in the future, be that videos or written guides. You can set folders (topics) & tags for ease of retrieval.
Thanks.
There is no real reason why you can't use Linkwarden for data preservation. I tend to keep things separate. Read it later articles go in Readeck, data I want to save goes in Karakeep, and important bookmarks like online accounts, business links, etc go in Linkwarden. They are pretty much interchangeable, it's just my wonky way of keeping everthing separated.
Thanks.
Have they fixed the titles of saved links being clipped for no reason?
I found Linkwarden entirely unusable because of this and switched to KaraKeep the moment I realized they’d mastered the ancient magic of “Make sure the link titles are actually fully visible”
EDIT: It would appear not since I can see they’re clipped in the thumbnail lol. All that wasted space sitting there doing nothing when it could be… containing the title of the link.
We’ll try this again the new updates look great
Is there a way to regenerate AI tags for bookmarks that failed to do so? I couldn't find that option in the settings.
nice! will try this out asap!
Thanks, lmk how it goes!
No native Android app yet?
Mobile app is in development :)
I ported my data from Hoarder/Karakeep around the time of their copyright crisis, and I've loved the software so far.
All I need is for them to fix the public collection RSS feed bug where they embed "https,http" in the feed xml if you're behind a reverse proxy - which breaks parsing
Where has this been all my life?! Looking forward for the mobile app!
This reminds me of stumbleupon from way back when. Neat idea
Thanks - fantastic work 🥳