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, 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), and has the ability to make certain bookmarks public facing.

That’s when I stumbled on linkding.

How it works

I have a little Synology NAS 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 domain, secure it with CloudFlare tunnel, 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.

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, 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.