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A minimal bookmarking tool

This allows you to bookmark links and view them later. Completely powered by ValTown and SQLite.

To set this up for yourself

Fork the val
From your ValTown settings page, add an environment variable named bookmarks_client_id and give it a value (you will be using this for saving)
Add another environment variable named bookmarks_client_secret and give it a value (you will also be using this for saving)
At first, the "bookmarks" table will not exist, so we need to save an article first, which will create the "bookmarks" table
To do this, add a bookmarklet to your browser with this value (replace BOOKMARKS-CLIENT-ID and BOOKMARKS-CLIENT-SECRET with the values you added to the environment variables, and replace BOOKMARKS-URL with your VAL's URL):

javascript:void(open('BOOKMARKS-URL/save?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&t='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'&id=BOOKMARKS-CLIENT-ID&secret=BOOKMARKS-CLIENT-SECRET', 'Bookmark a link', 'width=400,height=450'))

Click this bookmarklet to bookmark the URL of the current active tab
Go to your VAL URL homepage to see the bookmark

Demo

Here are my bookmarks: https://ramkarthik-bookmark.web.val.run/

Note

Make sure you don't share bookmarks_client_id and bookmarks_client_secret. It is used for authentication before saving a bookmark.

Code

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Comments

nbbaier …

Nice! I've been thinking about doing something like this but with a little more of a pinboard feel. Really nice starting place for me!

ramkarthik …

Look forward to seeing your val.

Three things I plan to do for this one:

Add tags
Add search
Set up a cronjob to send the consolidated bookmarks as an email every day

hwbuk …

This is really cool nice work!

I use Pocket which I can access on my Kobo Libra e-reader which allows me to get away from the standard screen and read in isolation, I wonder if there's some way to take the bookmarks saved each day and auto-save them into Pocket as well to be able to maintain two places, probably feels a bit like duplication of what Pocket is used for but could be a cool idea!

ramkarthik …

I think this should be possible and a cool idea. We can set up a cron that runs every day and sends the articles saved since last run to Pocket using the Pocket API. I currently use Omnivore as my read-later, so I'll probably create a cron for both Pocket and Omnivore.