---
title: "I made my bookmarks public"
date: "2025-04-28"
description: "Why I self-host my bookmarks with linkding on a Synology NAS, and how sharing a public list beats sending people links one at a time."
image: "https://bryanmanio.com/_astro/linkding.CzgaapIB.jpg"
url: "https://bryanmanio.com/blog/i-made-my-bookmarks-public/"
---

# I made my bookmarks public

I'm always collecting interesting sites, interactions, articles — basically whatever captures my curiosity on a given day.

Because of that, I tend to end up with a ton of bookmarks, but never really have a decent place to house and categorize them. I could just dump them in a [browser](https://bryanmanio.com/blog/its-time-to-switch-browsers/), but I find they always lack some basic organization options.

I wanted a solution that gave me a tagging feature, avoiding getting locked into a paid subscription (I was close to using [mymind](https://mymind.com/)), and has the ability to make certain bookmarks public facing.

That's when I stumbled on [linkding](https://linkding.link/).

![](https://bryanmanio.com/_astro/CleanShot-2025-04-28-at-13.10.56-1024x838.DW17pkzR.jpeg)

## How it works

I have a little [Synology NAS](https://bryanmanio.com/blog/ditching-dropbox-after-15-years/) tucked away in a shelf in my home that I use primarily for backups, and as a media server. linkding is a simple little self-hosted application I can run in a Docker container, link it to a domain, secure it with [Cloudflare tunnel](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-networks/), and within a few minutes I was up and running.

They've made a little browser extension as well, so adding something to my library is done in a click. There are options to add tags to the bookmark, make it private or public, as well as the option to include a note so I can remember why I bookmarked it in the first place.

![](https://bryanmanio.com/_astro/CleanShot-2025-04-28-at-13.12.58.rKH-k12_.jpeg)

## Why make them public?

This feature came in handy last week, when I was chatting with another designer about what sites I use to collect design inspiration. I had started bookmarking some of my favorite sites under a "gallery" tag, and was able to link him directly to my [full list](https://bryanmanio.com/bookmarks/), instead of sending them over manually.

Overall I'm pretty happy with the solution. If I had it my way, I'd be making some UI tweaks to make it a bit more in line with my taste, but hey, done is better than perfect.

[View my bookmarks](https://bryanmanio.com/bookmarks/)