Bookmark organization with floccus and LinkAce
LinkAce
The LinkAce web application is not about synchronizing the existing bookmarks, but about an independent collection of bookmarks for later evaluation and archiving. A Raspberry Pi is all you need for this. I used a Proxmox container in testing. LinkAce uses PHP and requires a database in the background. You can choose between MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, or SQLite. The fastest way to set up LinkAce is through Docker Compose.
But before I get to the installation, I will first look at what LinkAce aims to do and how it goes about it. The intention of the German open source developer Kevin Woblick [8] is to make it easier for users to store, archive, mark, classify, and retrieve bookmarks. LinkAce's interface is reduced to the bare essentials, well structured and clearly laid out (Figure 7).
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Clear Cut
The app offers three ways to add new URLs. First, the existing bookmarks in the browsers can be imported as HTML. You can also enter URLs directly in the interface (Figure 7). There is also a bookmarklet that you can drag into your web browser's bookmarks bar to interactively store the URLs of the web pages you visit in the database.
LinkAce then takes care of the saved URLs. It will also perform a periodic Line Check if enabled (Figure 8). If a link is no longer available or has been moved, you will be notified and given the details. In addition, saved links can be backed up to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine (Figure 9) [9]. All saved links can be exported as HTML, imported into a browser, or kept as a backup. Other supported backup targets include the commercial AWS [10] and S3 [11].
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Tags and Lists
Tags and lists are used to classify links. Lists serve the purpose of bundling multiple links relating to a specific topic (Figure 10), while tags are used for general categorization. LinkAce also lets you enable optional guest access; the guest can see all links that you do not classify as private. Access can be controlled separately for each link, tag, and list.
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Another way to share links is through link sharing, which is currently available for 20 different services. With an API key for the LinkAce API, the app can also be connected to other tools, which can then access and edit the data in LinkAce.
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