linkwarden: Save, Organize, and Preserve Web Links

Overview

Linkwarden collects bookmarks in organized, searchable collections and preserves webpages as screenshots, PDFs, and HTML files. This helps reduce the impact of link rot and makes saved material easier to revisit, read, and annotate.

It is designed for both personal use and collaboration. You can self-host an instance or use the official cloud service, then share links or work with others in collections.

Key Features

• Captures webpages as screenshots, PDFs, and single HTML files.
• Provides a reader view with text highlighting and annotations.
• Organizes links into collections and sub-collections with tags and descriptions.
• Supports shared links and collaborative collections with configurable member permissions.
• Offers full-text search, filtering, and sorting.
• Includes browser extensions, browser synchronization through Floccus, and native iOS and Android apps.
• Can optionally send pages to the Wayback Machine and use local AI tagging.

Use Cases

• Researchers can preserve articles and source material, then annotate and retrieve them later.
• Teams can gather and share reference links in collaborative collections with different member permissions.
• People who read across devices can save links from a browser and continue with the mobile apps or reader view.
• Self-hosting advocates can keep a bookmark library and its saved page copies on an instance they manage.

Project Facts

• Language: TypeScript
• License: AGPL-3.0
• Stars: 19.9k
• Forks: 857
• Topics: bookmark, bookmark-manager, collaboration, nextjs, react-native, read-it-later, self-hosted, typescript
• Archived: No

Getting Started

Choose the Linkwarden Cloud service or follow the self-hosting installation guide to deploy an instance. See the repository README and documentation for setup details.

Alternatives

• wallabag: wallabag focuses on extracting and reading saved articles, while Linkwarden emphasizes managing bookmarks with archived webpage copies.

Considerations

• Self-hosting requires deploying and maintaining a server instance; the project also offers a cloud option.
• Preserving pages creates screenshot, PDF, and HTML copies, so consider the storage needs of your collection.
• The project is licensed under AGPL-3.0. Review the license terms when distributing or modifying a deployment.
• Some features, including local AI tagging and Wayback Machine snapshots, are optional rather than required for basic bookmarking.