This App Changed Everything... No Tab Hoarding For Me!

[@TheLinuxCast]

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[@sarreqteryx]

soooooo… they re-invented the bookmark…

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

@tristen_grant You've actually answered a completely different point to the one the OP was originally making.

[@FlameForgedSoul]

@@terrydaktyllus1320 No, he added context to a snarky comment that might be taken at face value... _without context._

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

@@FlameForgedSoulCan he not answer for himself? When did he appoint you his "official spokesperson"? Can you read his mind?

[@tigergaj]

@@sarreqteryx yeah, I'm genuinely not trying to be rude, but I don't understand why you need this over bookmarks. Hell, I'd rather just save stuff in my obsidian vault over this

[@tomasruzicka9835]

@@tigergaj Came here to post about LogSeq (altho I would prefer if it used something like SQLite instead of some hipster functional lisp like db queries) and found someone posting obsidian 😀Close enough.

[@KnobbyTires]

yo a new camera angle dropped

[@NJ-wb1cz]

The camera dropped 😢

[@robnobert]

get in here bois!!!! 💪

[@SchlumplesSchlumolomus-u9u]

Ya and it's awesome

[@keyboard_g]

Ugg why does it need a full Postgres instance and Docker to save strings?! At most it should be SQLite so its just a file and thus can be a flatpak or other standard package. It could easily be a view over a markdown file so you can merge to a repository.

[@thingsiplay]

I agree. This is something similar to bookmarks with a few more functionality, but its bloated for what it does. If anything a simple browser extension should be enough, if the bookmarks functionality of your browser (Firefox) is no enough. Backups are done every day automatically, you can tag and search it and Firefox sync exists too. I'm not a fan of this linkwarden too. It feels unnecessary and bloated.

[@vaisakh_km]

Exactly my thought... i now use floccus extention, it's just sync bookmarks with github as a single html file it's sync with github/gdrive/linkwarden/webdav/ and has a mobile app too i where using RaindropIO before

[@fotnite_]

okay but have you considered that it's 🌟cloud native🌟 (just ignore that sqlite is also used in the cloud)

[@rainmannoodles]

Yep, typical Docker bloatware. Take something that could be a single lightweight binary and turn it into something that requires an entire cloud infrastructure basically. That just noped this app right off of the list of things I’ll ever consider testing.

[@burningpho3nix]

2:30 sounds like glorified bookmarks to me

[@pfitz4881]

Exactly what I'm thinking.

[@bologna3048]

lmao i said the same thing

[@Nukelover]

No, it's a booklmark manager, not just a bookmarker. This means it is separate from your browser, cross platform, and accessible even if you don't have your browser of choice available -- from anywhere. One is built into Firefox and Chrome, but they are tied to your browser and hosted on someone else's machines. I've been looking for something like this for a while to replace an older system, but the docker image doesn't like my machine for some reason. Oh well...

[@asg8813]

Looks similar to bookmarks? What is the advantage of this?

[@TheLinuxCast]

Easier to mange, cross platform, cross browser, more of a cold storage type thing for something you don't need all the time

[@calholli]

@@TheLinuxCast Bookmarks are cross browser.. You just press "export" and it gives you an HTML link.. Done. You can paste it into a text file for storage on anything.. You can just put that link into any new browser. I save mine as a backup on my ventoy USB.. that has some distros and a bunch of picks, etc.. Bookmarks are easy to backup.. easy transfer, etc. Easy to create new folders and organize. I don't see the need for another app in my life.

[@LouigiVerona]

Came here to ask the same, but the reply makes sense! 👍

[@vaisakh_km]

​@@TheLinuxCastfirefox has excellent bookmark manager, firefox sync can sync it across device, or use a bookmark sync extention like floccus which can sync to even github/gitlab/webdav/linkwarden... I was using raindropio, which is like linkwarden but not opensouce, which had 300+ links tagged and sorted, but i found that bookmarks is good enough

[@BrianPhillipsSKS]

I use LinkWarden to save things for later and I can drop them into categories. It also saves copies of the pages in pictures and PDF so even if it's not available anymore you still have it. You can also add from any browser or any device

[@Skelterbane69]

In my two browsers, that I have open at all times, I have a combined 1011 tabs open right now tbh I thought it'd be more

[@thingsiplay]

Bookmarks Matt, why don't you just use bookmarks? The Bookmarks Toolbar (at least in Firefox) is integrated into the UI for quick access. I have a separated ToDo folder for stuff that would have been ended up in open Tabs. Logically speaking its not much different from an open Tab. No other application or addon is required. You can even use the bookmarks search functionality, subfolders, tags and keywords. Firefox can also natively group open Tabs too now.

[@Tired_Night_Owl_in_the_Woods]

If you have more than one browser in everyday use it becomes chaotic veery quickly😅

[@abdallahgamal7164]

I use onetab and you can export it It can be slow when you have hundreds of saved tabs, but it works and it's simple

[@Vitis-n2v]

I used Onetab to export my tabs for importing into a new fresh firefox profile. Definitely very useful addon

[@danjoe6114]

OT is the king ;) slow? Just share resave it the shared file. Delete the rest. Voala. An empty light fast new extension. Dont trust server? Save it localy by ctrl s. Done.

[@FlameForgedSoul]

Two to three hundred are Rookie Numbers, Dearest.

[@danjoe6114]

Get first 1k advance to next level. ;)

[@danjoe6114]

If i have passed 10k what level i have reached. :)

[@esra_erimez]

I hope you had a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy and Healthy New Year

[@TheLinuxCast]

Right back at ya!

[@MajinHico]

What difference from firefox bookmark? You can have tags there...

[@averagetechnologyenojyer]

Probably since its running hosted on our browser we can just open it like a webapp on any browser we want

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

@@averagetechnologyenojyer What you describe is still just a bookmark under an icon that just opens a specific browser to that web site - that's what a webapp is, it's just a way of creating a desktop shortcut.

[@anon_y_mousse]

Matt, I've got 12 virtual desktops. I know all too well about tab hoarding. I don't know if you do this too, but once it's out of sight and bookmarked only, I *never* go back to it.

[@TheLinuxCast]

@@anon_y_mousse yes that's exactly what happens

[@derekr54]

Bookmarks that you have to pay for ?!

[@calholli]

This same thing is built into browsers.. It's called "bookmarks" or "favorites"... Just create folders in bookmarks and save it however you want. Not only that, it's easy to export to to other browsers.

[@TheLinuxCast]

@@calholli some of us use other browsers and would like to have them sync between them. Thank you very much.

[@vertexrikers]

vivaldi says i have 811 tabs synced and open over 31 workspaces rn 👀

[@ilias.k]

For the "read" option, you could create trags for that, like "read" & "unread" and use that as the main filter to only show the "unread" ones.

[@whahala555]

I was thinging the same thing, it cleary shows tags as a option.

[@alternatuber6698]

You can use Firefox with Sidebery extension, sync and can able to achieve by grouping. Also you can export your tabs snapshots. No need that tool

[@hendrix4597]

I get that one may use this over tabs because it works in different browsers but what baffles me is why people use hundreds of tabs over bookmarks?

[@TheLinuxCast]

@hendrix4597 because bookmarks are for things that you’ll use over and over again. These are for things that you’ll only need once.

[@EhabSamir-nn7le]

5:49 you can make an archive folder

[@HakAtIt]

At 2:39 you are switching the window, is that an extension or part of obs?

[@edhahaz]

The accidental all your tabs closing hurts for a day, but a necessary event.

[@hifismiffy]

You Are The Tabulator !

[@YourComputer]

Do tabs have to be added manually? That would be a deal breaker for me.

[@TheLinuxCast]

No there's a browser extension

[@YourComputer]

@@TheLinuxCast I know, but does the browser extension automatically save the current session's tabs for you? Or do you have to manually go through each tab and save them one by one?

[@TheLinuxCast]

@ it's like pocket. One tab at a time. It's not meant to save the session tabs.

[@Pedunculopontine]

I was going to be the 15th person to ask why you dont use bookmarks, but I read the comment section first 😉 Thanks for all the work you put into your informative channel, and have a happy new year.

[@torspedia]

I recently started using this myself, though via the web app. This video, however, has reminded me that I need to organise my saved links more efficiently... so ta for that. 🙂

[@gl0sek]

Drew and Tyler staged an intervention...

[@mathmage420]

This is so funny you posted this video today. I was watching Immolos stream today and commented on how many tabs they had opened. Somebody replied "you should watch the linux cast, hes much worse"

[@simonslater7257]

I'm a tab hoarder too, but this looks like a lot of time and effort to manage? It's also another program that can just break at some point, wasting more time. Do you spend much extra time managing everything? I'm a programmer and have loads of tabs open as I'm coding, so a lot of those I will never read again, but I keep just in case. There's been a lot of times where I've had to find a page I had seen before. Can it search through the text of a page? I'd find that super useful as I often remember a small phrase from a page and have to click through 50 tabs to find the information I was looking for. I NEVER use bookmarks, I just lose all my tabs and start again at some point. Bookmarks are too much effort to organize and I never know what to bookmark as some things feel important but just aren't.

[@sirdee9607]

Thx for ur work, Kind Regards from germany happy New Year

[@TheLinuxCowboy]

I just use bookmarks for sites I want to remember later that I don’t really care if the information is updated or changed or removed. For things that have important information I want to be able to reference and search though easily (for example some kind of guide) I just save the page in question as a PDF file. Each person got their own way of doing things 🎉

[@BenjaminWheeler0510]

Edifier speakers spotted 👀

[@stepheningermany]

Seems like delicious bookmarks reinvented or pocket.

[@LinDahai88]

How it's differ from browser bookmarks? Just conceptually... except previews, marks etc...

[@ilanshavit9042]

This is a bookmark manager, with tag searching and more good stuff... It is not a RSS reader, so I didn't understand why you said that you can't mark it as read...

[@TheLinuxCast]

@@ilanshavit9042 because you can't.

[@Nukelover]

The docker compose is annoying and fails on my machine. Can we stop using docker? I know: uphill battle.

[@BytebroUK]

OK, I'm probably being really slow here, but in what way does that 'linkwarden' thing do anything that 'bookmark folders' cannot?

[@TheLinuxCast]

@@BytebroUK cross browser cross platform.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

@@TheLinuxCast Yes, that perfectly describes a URL to a web page that can be opened in Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Opera, etc. etc. So what?

[@vp4744]

You had a tab problem. Now you have a link problem too. You still need to use tabs for immediate use. Otherwise you'll have to open multiple browser instances. Bookmark apps were supposed to solve these types of problems, but they just compuneded them.

[@esra_erimez]

Oh my God, this is a lifesaver. Thank you.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

You've not ever used a thing called a "bookmark" in a browser then?

[@esra_erimez]

@@terrydaktyllus1320 Nope :-)

[@igeljaeger]

I know how to organize my bookmarks instead of keeping tabs open. I know, crazy.

[@Sismodium]

Tablications is now a word - Def: applications in tabs. (2024)

[@gamingandanime9000]

It is a nice tool and it is really awesome that you are showing these Application that not a lot of people know about. As for people saying what is the point? You don't need every open source software there is. Some people have specific use cases and that's why they create / use these but you don't have to if it doesn't fit your need or your workflow.

[@hansdampf2284]

There is bookmarks/ favorites in your browser, doesn’t it do basically the same thing?

[@benderbg]

The new camera angle hides the OpenSUSE sticker on the microphone.

[@mskiptr]

That looks much nicer than Pocket or whatever! But I think I need something that integrates with a task management tool. Maybe I should start using one of those "personal wiki"s after all?

[@otur1]

Silly to ask for a "vote up" beforehand, it's AFTER the video has earned it (almost always in your case) ;)

[@oluijks]

I'm not the hoarder you are but tab-groups keeps me organized pretty well...

[@mitchellpayne3674]

I guess I don't quite understand the benefit vs a given browser's bookmark manager? I have like 280 bookmarks, broken off into folders and though I would say it is indeed A LOT, I have no problems accessing the exact bookmark I need when I need it. Can you 'splain more plox? Clearly I'm missing something or else there wouldn't even be an app much less you making a vid about it lol! Thank you in advance. :)

[@TheLinuxCast]

Easier to mange, cross platform, cross browser, more of a cold storage type thing for something you don't need all the time

[@calholli]

I think he may not understand how easy it is to import/export your bookmarks... You just click "export" and it puts all your bookmarks into an HTML link, that you can simply paste into any text app and save anywhere.. Go to any new browser, clink "import" and put in that link.. Done. It's actually pretty cool, how simple they made it.

[@wtfisgoingon535]

@@calholli so 2004.

[@stewie3128]

@@calholli He's probably using multiple browsers simultaneously

[@mitchellpayne3674]

@@calholli Indeed, the integrated bookmark management in browsers still functions well to this day, and it's nice that most browsers' import/export functions "play nice" with each other. HOWEVER, after some deep digging on it myself as to what this is doing, I COMPLETELY missed the part about linkwarden actually archiving a copy of the page you've bookmarked. So basically this Bookmark Manager (aside from having more robust "bookmark collection" features including "team-shared features"), this ALSO is like your own personal Internet Archive to backup said bookmarked sites. So you when you make a bookmark, it also rips a copy of that website into your linkwarden server. That way if the actual site is no longer accessible (or even just temporarily) for whatever reason, the linkwarden bookmark will ALSO cough up the saved copy of the site for you to still access that content. This TREMENDOUSLY intriguing! First and foremost, I know FOR SURE journalists and independent media outlets would find this INVALUABLE! OK, NOW I'm up pickin up what you're layin down, @TheLinuxCast . Thanks for putting videos like this out there because I was completely oblivious to linkwarden's existance. ....Heck, I didn't even know people needed something like that, and now that I know about it I'm like... "Oh! NEW TOYS! :D" lol ;)

[@edwolt]

I save my links in markdown file using obsidian. That's my way of getting riding of link hoarding.

[@q07906]

What browser are you using ?

[@Qyngali]

You could add an Archive group and move stuff you're done with there? I don't know if groups can hava sub groups... Personally I just save stuff into different speed dial groups. But if you need access to the links from other browsers that won't be possible of course.

[@averagetechnologyenojyer]

Edit: try hoarder tooo :) Dat snorlax in the bg ❤ also i was wondering if there was a way to use obsidian as a bookmark manager

[@wyfyj]

So does this mean you will have less RAM in your system now? Or are you doubling your future build's RAM now? I mean, you will have 4 channels for memory so you may as well!

[@danjoe6114]

Wooow man. I use onetab(OT) extension for years. Thousands of tabs in lists groups and so.. even OT saves in the OT. Anyway good info vid. Cheers

[@danjoe6114]

Oh. Dont like few Mb files? Extract link list with linkgopher extension u get few Kb files. Lose some fancy fluff, gain some fether weight files. Had RAM isues on 4Gb machines used an ext caled unloder or something now just keep pile em in Onetab. Get to stuffed? Share delete done. Even save local OT. Only problem late firefox replace spaces with % on reopen local files. Found u can find in ,,about config,, how to revert links to clean. (Years of research :) )

[@c0wg0d]

This looks like Papaly, but self hosted. Nice.

[@Ehatari]

it is hyperland ?

[@singularitywash]

Whatever does the job - goes. Have a great 2025!

[@camerontgore]

Until they do add a Marked as Read button, could you just create an additional set if folders for Read Content and just move anything there that you know that you want to keep? Just a thought, this looks awesome thank for the video!

[@TheLinuxCast]

That's a good idea. Right now I'm testing other options.

[@camerontgore]

@@TheLinuxCast Ooh! Can't wait! I just pulled down the docker compose file to set up mine this morning, but I'll keep an eye out for any other options you post!

[@gregcampwriter]

It's $3/month, according to the website. That moves it from meh to nope.

[@TheLinuxCast]

@@gregcampwriter only if they host it for you. If you host it it's free

[@keyboard_g]

I noped out at Postgres and Docker just to save strings of a url.

[@AspectClip]

200 tabs? Oh my gosh, that's terrible! Ahem, I have 550 tabs right now. A few years ago I reached a peak of 7000 tabs in Firefox. I can tell you right now that neither this solution, nor bookmarks solves the problem. Do you know how I went from 7000 tabs to 500 tabs? By watching KZbin in incognito mode only, to prevent it from remembering my preferences. Of course I've recently taken to using youtube in a separate browser for youtube only, so we'll see how that goes.

[@simonslater7257]

If you mean because KZbin recommends random stuff that catches your eye, try the addon Unhook(works in brave, chromium and firefox). It removes all advertised videos for you. You can turn on/off playlists, autoplay next, recommendations sidebar, homescreen recommendations. I use it to prevent a youtube rabbit hole and when I do wanna go down a rabbit hole I just turn it off for a bit. It's brilliant, I can just watch a quick video on something and get off youtube and back to what I was doing.

[@GabyRafaela-z7g]

Great content, as always! Just a quick off-topic question: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?

[@intermarer9145]

Isn't this just... bookmarks? I don't get it.

[@uuu12343]

...adds my linkwarden server url to bookmarks

[@chandler6351]

love the snorlax very cool

[@reece2080]

matt probably freed up 40gb of ram lol

[@OneElkCrew]

Pocket for cloud saves, OneTab for local. Why bother?

[@und3rpr]

I use FF bookmarks and tags. Simple as that.

[@Tzalim]

Thx but na, I think I will just keep tab hording. Maybe if the webapp has an option to lock sites like onetab, I'll come back to it. I don't want them to be gone forever, like I watch a lot of TV shows and I don't want them to still be there new shows that I watch every week.

[@juanconnor8224]

Looks like the bookmarks setup for Zen.

[@jj-icejoe6642]

300 tabs ?

[@cpsemple]

If you need an app to manage things beyond what bookmarks provides, then you are probably what amounts to the digital version of a hoarder. It's good that you are making an effort, but the app removes you a step from the most basic form of self-discipline.

[@yurt3540]

i respect your opinion but consider that switching to another app is essentially a tool which they are using to improve themselves. they facilitated their reduction in saved links or tabs by switching to a new solution

[@el_is_a_bat]

Personally don't agree with you, because I use Sideberry to organize my different workflows, like personal, some programming and rising related stuff and tabs for my work. It's just easier than searching for some documentation or stack overflow solution (however, I save them externally mainly)

[@nikunjkhangwal]

Or maybe he doesn't have the same workflow and need than you

[@uuu12343]

"Most basic form of self-discipline" my brother in christ, stop trying to dictate and gatekeep the definition of "discipline" the same way the Americas Loooooooooove to police the entire world

[@dlogic1]

Postgres just to save links! Yikes!!! what an overkill, could just have a SQLite, if not flat files.

[@user-jofi25]

Even if one uses Linkwarden only locally like hosting it on your home server and use it only in your local network for a single user it's still a good idea to have some DBMS on your home server for various data related use cases. And for this Postgres isn't a bad choice.

[@doombringerson]

Tablications is a great name for like, web apps you keep pinned in the browser.

[@SlideRSB]

So basically, you're just doing bookmarks instead of tabs. 🤷

[@desmond3318]

Vivaldi is still night and day better than this.

[@jackt-z2m]

It's jover

[@tridens6708]

Im disappointed you dropped😢 Suse OS

[@TheLinuxCast]

@@tridens6708 I didn’t. I’m still using openSUSE

[@RickySupriyadi]

right click close all tabs... summon then from history... problem is history not visual, this one visual.... ha! problem solved!

[@lowzyyy]

Bro discovered bookmark in 2024

[@danjoe6114]

Yup

[@carrotnuke]

Nice beard

[@fooboomoo]

left a like and now a comment omg!

[@gklinger]

So bookmarks for $3 per month. *yawn*

[@TheLinuxCast]

@gklinger no. It's self hosted. And not bookmarks. Pocket.

[@nerdCopter]

OneTab

[@milohoffman274]

I have been using raindrop.io for many years. Its similar.

[@JonathanMcDonough]

Same, Raindrop is great.