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Hello everyone, I’m the main developer behind Linkwarden. Glad to see it getting some attention here! Some key features of the app (at the moment): - Text hig

Hello everyone, I’m the main developer behind Linkwarden. Glad to see it getting some attention here! Some key features of the app (at the moment): - Text highlighting - Full page archival - Full content search - Optional local AI tagging - Sync with browser (using Floccus) - Collaborative Also, for anyone wondering, all features from the cloud plan are available to self-hosted users :)

yapyap 1y ago
Very very neat! a question arose for me though: if the AI tagging is self hostable as well, how taxing is it for the hardware, what would the minimum viable hardware be?
- daniel31x13 1y ago
  Thanks! A lightweight model like the phi3:mini-4k is enough for this feature.[1] It’s worth mentioning that you can also use external providers like OpenAI and Anthropic to tag the links for you. [1]: https://docs.linkwarden.app/self-hosting/ai-worker https://docs.linkwarden.app/self-hosting/ai-worker
dikdok 1y ago
> Full page archival Does it grab the DOM from my browser as it sees it? Or is it a separate request? If so, how does it deal with authentication?
- daniel31x13 1y ago
  So there are different ways it archives a webpage. It currently stores the full webpages as a single html file, a screenshot, a pdf, a read-it-later view. Aside from that, you can also send the webpages to the Wayback Machine to take a snapshot. To archive pages behind a login or paywall, you can use the browser extension, which captures an image of the webpage in the browser and sends it to the server.
  - dikdok 1y ago
    > To archive pages behind a login or paywall, you can use the browser extension, which captures an image of the webpage in the browser and sends it to the server. Just an image? So no full text search?
    - deleted 1y ago
      [deleted]
  - warkdarrior 1y ago
    > To archive pages behind a login or paywall, you can use the browser extension, which captures an image of the webpage in the browser and sends it to the server. It'd be awesome to integrate this with the SingleFile extension, which captures any webpage into a self-contained HTML file (with JS, CSS, etc, inlined).
    - daniel31x13 1y ago
      We might add this, it's actually highly suggested by the users :)
browningstreet 1y ago
Suggestion/request: What I'd really love is a super compact "short-name only" view of links. Just words, not lines or galleries. For super-high content views.
- daniel31x13 1y ago
  You can do that already: https://blog.linkwarden.app/releases/2.8#%EF%B8%8F-customizable-view-and-adjustable-columns https://blog.linkwarden.app/releases/2.8#%EF%B8%8F-customiza...
  - browningstreet 1y ago
    Ahh, yes, you can reduce it to names with a lot of columns. In my personal ideal, I've love to store a short-name for a link and have no boxes. Personally, I've always wanted links to be like the tag cloud in pinboard and to have a page with multiple tags/categories. I'd also love a separation of human tags and AI tags (even by base or stem), just in case they provided radically different views, but both were useful. EDIT: Just did a quick look in the documentation, is there a native or supported distinction between links that are like bookmarks and links that are more content/articles/resources?
  - colordrops 1y ago
    Could still be a lot more compact. Would also like the hierarchical view in the main pane. In any case, nice project, thank you.
- colordrops 1y ago
  Came here to ask for exactly this.
zxcvgm 1y ago
Cool, looks like text highlighting is a new addition in 2.10. There aren't any examples in the demo site of this, but can it capture the highlighted text snippets and show them in the link details page? That would help me recall quickly why I saved the link, without opening the original link and re-reading the page. I haven't really seen this in other tools (or maybe I just haven't looked hard enough), except Memex.
- daniel31x13 1y ago
  > There aren't any examples in the demo site of this This is because we haven't updated the demo to the latest version. > but can it capture the highlighted text snippets and show them in the link details page? That's a good idea that we might implement later, but at the moment you can only highlight the links[1]. [1]: https://blog.linkwarden.app/releases/2.10#%EF%B8%8F-text-highlighting https://blog.linkwarden.app/releases/2.10#%EF%B8%8F-text-hig...
- xtiansimon 1y ago
  > “…can it capture the highlighted text snippets and show them in the link details page.” Essentially a quote with attribution.
thm 1y ago
I have about ~30k .webarchive files — is there a chance to import them?
- SansGuidon 1y ago
  Even if importing them they might remain stuck in some import queue and you might not be able to search them. That was a blocker for me https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/issues/586 https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/issues/586
ryan29 1y ago
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on having a PWA vs regular mobile apps since it looks like you started with a PWA, but are moving to regular apps. Is that just a demand / eyeballs thing or were there technical reasons?
- daniel31x13 1y ago
  Mostly the UX it provides. PWAs are a quick and easy way to support mobile but the UX is nowhere near as good a traditional mobile app…
achierius 1y ago
How difficult would it be to import an existing list of links/tags? Also, if I were using a hosted version, would I be able to eg insert/retrieve files via an API call? I ask because currently I use Readwise but have a local script that syncs the reader files to a local DB, which then feeds into some custom agent flows I have going on on the side.
- daniel31x13 1y ago
  > How difficult would it be to import an existing list of links/tags? Pretty easy if you have it in a bookmark html file format. > Also, if I were using a hosted version, would I be able to eg insert/retrieve files via an API call? Yup, check out the api documentation: https://docs.linkwarden.app/api/api-introduction https://docs.linkwarden.app/api/api-introduction
cosmic_cheese 1y ago
Interesting project! A couple of questions: - Does the web front end support themes? It’s a trivial thing but based on the screenshots, various things about the default theme bug me and it would be nice to be able to change those without a user style extension. - Does it have an API that would allow development of a native desktop front end?
- daniel31x13 1y ago
  > Does the web front end support themes? Yes[1]. > Does it have an API that would allow development of a native desktop front end? Also yes[2]. [1]: https://blog.linkwarden.app/releases/2.9#-customizable-theme https://blog.linkwarden.app/releases/2.9#-customizable-theme [2]: https://docs.linkwarden.app/api/api-introduction https://docs.linkwarden.app/api/api-introduction
flexagoon 1y ago
Great product! Does it handle special metadata like https://mymind.com/ https://mymind.com/ does, eg. showing prices directly in the UI if the saved link is a product in a shop? If not, things like that would be a great addition!
- smcin 1y ago
  (The historical price on the day the link was published, or the current price, or over a date range, or configurable? I see different use-cases)
- touristtam 1y ago
  Site note: When a website advertising a product does a bad job at optimising the loading of the page, that's usually a red flag for me; yes that website has noticeable jitter when scrolling up and down even though it _only_ load around ~70Mb worth of assets initially.
Tsarp 1y ago
Curious if the the paid tier helps support development of the project
- daniel31x13 1y ago
  Definitely! :)
jychang 1y ago
> Optional local AI tagging https://docs.linkwarden.app/self-hosting/ai-worker https://docs.linkwarden.app/self-hosting/ai-worker I took a look at this... and you use the Ollama API behind the scenes?? Why not use an OpenAI compatible endpoint like the rest of the industry? Locking it to Ollama is stupid. Ollama is just a wrapper for llama.cpp anyways. Literally everyone else running LLMs locally- llama.cpp, vllm (which is what the inference providers use, also I know Deepseek API servers use this behind the scenes), LM Studio (for the causal people), etc all use an OpenAI compatible api endpoint. Not to mention OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Deepseek, Openrouter, etc all mainly use (or at least fully supports, in the case of Google) an OpenAI compatible endpoint.
- CaptainFever 1y ago
  You could contribute an option!
- dewey 1y ago
  > Locking it to Ollama is stupid. If you don’t like this free and open source software that was shared it’s luckily possible to change it yourself…or if it’s not supporting your favorite option you can also just ignore it. No need to call someone’s work or choices stupid.
  - jychang 1y ago
    Strong disagree. Just because something is free and open source does not make it good. Call a spade a spade. Ollama is a piece of shit software that basically stole the work of llama.cpp, locks down their GGUFs files so it cannot be used by other software on your machine, misleads users by hiding information (like what quant you are using, who produced the GGUF, etc), created their own API endpoint to lock in users instead of using a standard OpenAI compatible API, and more problems. It's like they looked at all the bad walled garden things Apple does and took it as a todo list.
    - dewey 1y ago
      That’s not the point, you didn’t say “Ollama is stupid” you said “Locking it to Ollama is stupid”. Not every person is aware of all faults or politics of all their dependencies.

yapyap 1y ago

Very very neat! a question arose for me though: if the AI tagging is self hostable as well, how taxing is it for the hardware, what would the minimum viable hardware be?

daniel31x13 1y ago
Thanks! A lightweight model like the phi3:mini-4k is enough for this feature.[1] It’s worth mentioning that you can also use external providers like OpenAI and Anthropic to tag the links for you. [1]: https://docs.linkwarden.app/self-hosting/ai-worker https://docs.linkwarden.app/self-hosting/ai-worker

dikdok 1y ago

> Full page archival Does it grab the DOM from my browser as it sees it? Or is it a separate request? If so, how does it deal with authentication?

daniel31x13 1y ago
So there are different ways it archives a webpage. It currently stores the full webpages as a single html file, a screenshot, a pdf, a read-it-later view. Aside from that, you can also send the webpages to the Wayback Machine to take a snapshot. To archive pages behind a login or paywall, you can use the browser extension, which captures an image of the webpage in the browser and sends it to the server.
- dikdok 1y ago
  > To archive pages behind a login or paywall, you can use the browser extension, which captures an image of the webpage in the browser and sends it to the server. Just an image? So no full text search?
  - deleted 1y ago
    [deleted]
- warkdarrior 1y ago
  > To archive pages behind a login or paywall, you can use the browser extension, which captures an image of the webpage in the browser and sends it to the server. It'd be awesome to integrate this with the SingleFile extension, which captures any webpage into a self-contained HTML file (with JS, CSS, etc, inlined).
  - daniel31x13 1y ago
    We might add this, it's actually highly suggested by the users :)

browningstreet 1y ago

Suggestion/request: What I'd really love is a super compact "short-name only" view of links. Just words, not lines or galleries. For super-high content views.

daniel31x13 1y ago
You can do that already: https://blog.linkwarden.app/releases/2.8#%EF%B8%8F-customizable-view-and-adjustable-columns https://blog.linkwarden.app/releases/2.8#%EF%B8%8F-customiza...
- browningstreet 1y ago
  Ahh, yes, you can reduce it to names with a lot of columns. In my personal ideal, I've love to store a short-name for a link and have no boxes. Personally, I've always wanted links to be like the tag cloud in pinboard and to have a page with multiple tags/categories. I'd also love a separation of human tags and AI tags (even by base or stem), just in case they provided radically different views, but both were useful. EDIT: Just did a quick look in the documentation, is there a native or supported distinction between links that are like bookmarks and links that are more content/articles/resources?
- colordrops 1y ago
  Could still be a lot more compact. Would also like the hierarchical view in the main pane. In any case, nice project, thank you.
colordrops 1y ago
Came here to ask for exactly this.

zxcvgm 1y ago

Cool, looks like text highlighting is a new addition in 2.10. There aren't any examples in the demo site of this, but can it capture the highlighted text snippets and show them in the link details page? That would help me recall quickly why I saved the link, without opening the original link and re-reading the page. I haven't really seen this in other tools (or maybe I just haven't looked hard enough), except Memex.

daniel31x13 1y ago
> There aren't any examples in the demo site of this This is because we haven't updated the demo to the latest version. > but can it capture the highlighted text snippets and show them in the link details page? That's a good idea that we might implement later, but at the moment you can only highlight the links[1]. [1]: https://blog.linkwarden.app/releases/2.10#%EF%B8%8F-text-highlighting https://blog.linkwarden.app/releases/2.10#%EF%B8%8F-text-hig...
xtiansimon 1y ago
> “…can it capture the highlighted text snippets and show them in the link details page.” Essentially a quote with attribution.

thm 1y ago

I have about ~30k .webarchive files — is there a chance to import them?

SansGuidon 1y ago
Even if importing them they might remain stuck in some import queue and you might not be able to search them. That was a blocker for me https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/issues/586 https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/issues/586

ryan29 1y ago

I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on having a PWA vs regular mobile apps since it looks like you started with a PWA, but are moving to regular apps. Is that just a demand / eyeballs thing or were there technical reasons?

daniel31x13 1y ago
Mostly the UX it provides. PWAs are a quick and easy way to support mobile but the UX is nowhere near as good a traditional mobile app…

achierius 1y ago

How difficult would it be to import an existing list of links/tags? Also, if I were using a hosted version, would I be able to eg insert/retrieve files via an API call? I ask because currently I use Readwise but have a local script that syncs the reader files to a local DB, which then feeds into some custom agent flows I have going on on the side.

daniel31x13 1y ago
> How difficult would it be to import an existing list of links/tags? Pretty easy if you have it in a bookmark html file format. > Also, if I were using a hosted version, would I be able to eg insert/retrieve files via an API call? Yup, check out the api documentation: https://docs.linkwarden.app/api/api-introduction https://docs.linkwarden.app/api/api-introduction

cosmic_cheese 1y ago

Interesting project! A couple of questions: - Does the web front end support themes? It’s a trivial thing but based on the screenshots, various things about the default theme bug me and it would be nice to be able to change those without a user style extension. - Does it have an API that would allow development of a native desktop front end?

daniel31x13 1y ago
> Does the web front end support themes? Yes[1]. > Does it have an API that would allow development of a native desktop front end? Also yes[2]. [1]: https://blog.linkwarden.app/releases/2.9#-customizable-theme https://blog.linkwarden.app/releases/2.9#-customizable-theme [2]: https://docs.linkwarden.app/api/api-introduction https://docs.linkwarden.app/api/api-introduction

flexagoon 1y ago

Great product! Does it handle special metadata like https://mymind.com/ https://mymind.com/ does, eg. showing prices directly in the UI if the saved link is a product in a shop? If not, things like that would be a great addition!

smcin 1y ago
(The historical price on the day the link was published, or the current price, or over a date range, or configurable? I see different use-cases)
touristtam 1y ago
Site note: When a website advertising a product does a bad job at optimising the loading of the page, that's usually a red flag for me; yes that website has noticeable jitter when scrolling up and down even though it _only_ load around ~70Mb worth of assets initially.

Tsarp 1y ago

Curious if the the paid tier helps support development of the project

daniel31x13 1y ago
Definitely! :)

jychang 1y ago

> Optional local AI tagging https://docs.linkwarden.app/self-hosting/ai-worker https://docs.linkwarden.app/self-hosting/ai-worker I took a look at this... and you use the Ollama API behind the scenes?? Why not use an OpenAI compatible endpoint like the rest of the industry? Locking it to Ollama is stupid. Ollama is just a wrapper for llama.cpp anyways. Literally everyone else running LLMs locally- llama.cpp, vllm (which is what the inference providers use, also I know Deepseek API servers use this behind the scenes), LM Studio (for the causal people), etc all use an OpenAI compatible api endpoint. Not to mention OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Deepseek, Openrouter, etc all mainly use (or at least fully supports, in the case of Google) an OpenAI compatible endpoint.

CaptainFever 1y ago
You could contribute an option!
dewey 1y ago
> Locking it to Ollama is stupid. If you don’t like this free and open source software that was shared it’s luckily possible to change it yourself…or if it’s not supporting your favorite option you can also just ignore it. No need to call someone’s work or choices stupid.
- jychang 1y ago
  Strong disagree. Just because something is free and open source does not make it good. Call a spade a spade. Ollama is a piece of shit software that basically stole the work of llama.cpp, locks down their GGUFs files so it cannot be used by other software on your machine, misleads users by hiding information (like what quant you are using, who produced the GGUF, etc), created their own API endpoint to lock in users instead of using a standard OpenAI compatible API, and more problems. It's like they looked at all the bad walled garden things Apple does and took it as a todo list.
  - dewey 1y ago
    That’s not the point, you didn’t say “Ollama is stupid” you said “Locking it to Ollama is stupid”. Not every person is aware of all faults or politics of all their dependencies.