linkding is a bookmark manager that you can host yourself. It’s designed to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Clean UI optimized for readability.
- Organize bookmarks with tags.
- Bulk editing, Markdown notes, read it later functionality.
- Share bookmarks with other users or guests.
- Automatically provides titles, descriptions and icons of bookmarked websites.
- Automatically archive websites, either as local HTML file or on Internet Archive.
- Import and export bookmarks in Netscape HTML format.
- Installable as a Progressive Web App (PWA).
- Extensions for Firefox and Chrome, as well as a bookmarklet.
- SSO support via OIDC or authentication proxies.
- REST API for developing 3rd party apps.
- Admin panel for user self-service and raw data access.
Website: github.com/sissbruecker/linkding
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Developer: Sascha Ißbrücker
License: MIT License

linkding is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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